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"Induction stoves are so much better."

Depends. When the electricity comes from a gas power plant, it is way more efficient, to use the heat of the gas directly, instead of heating water and steam, running through a turbine, transmit lossy overland, convert to household power -> turn the electricity into heat again.

But when you have renewable sources, it is a different story. I believe you have mostly nuclear power in sweden?




We produce 170TWh per year in Sweden. 41% is hydro, 29% is nuclear and 19% wind. So a large chunk is nuclear, but far from the majority.


Even if your electricity is generated from gas, induction is more efficient: https://www.treehugger.com/which-more-energy-efficient-cooki...

(And the above even generously assumes the generation is not CHP which would make induction look better still, and ignores the extra energy needed for chilling your house)

The low efficiency of transferring heat from gas to the cooking vessel kills the odds for the gas range in the competition, most of energy goes to heating air instead of the kettle.

(But we shouldn't generate electricity from gas of course, fossils need to be left in the ground to avert worst of the climate disaster)


They are just nicer to cook on. They get hotter far quicker and can be more easily controlled.


You are ignoring the cost of laying millions of miles of natural gas pipes to each and every home. And the leaks through all these pipes, which is 9%.

Electricity is the first utility and all homes have it. Of course, you can be off grid and have no utilities, just have solar+batteries, electrification works perfectly in that scenario.


But many homes already have it (in europe). Huge network of big and small pipelines.

Replacing is a cost.


> Replacing is a cost.

Sorry, I don't understand. What is being replaced? With what?


"I have a gas range, gas water heater, gas logs, and gas backup heat."

With the electricity equivalent.

Makes sense when all is powered by green energy, but it does not makes sense to switch all that and power it with electricity from coal. Then the CO2 costs are higher.


Coal is less than 20% and is continuously going down. Coal will be negligible in a decade or so. Renewables is more than 20% and growing!

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3




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