Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: We are soon making the decision to bring or not bring gas to the community

[dick (dick]

In the long run, electricity will increasingly be generated from renewable 
resources. Gas is a fossil fuel and is produced by increasingly destructive 
methods.
 

 
A modern, tight-envelope house requires automatic exhaust fans and heated 
make-up air or an ERV system (added construction and maintenance costs) with 
gas.
 

 
After reviewing those points, it was an easy decision for us to go 
all-electric. Those of us who like to cook are buying induction ranges.
 

 
All that said, we have gas in the common house as backup safe space in the 
event of a power outage. In our case, there is no gas main in town, so we're 
talking propane. But the same considerations would apply anywhere, I think.
 

 
Dick Margulis
 
Rocky Corner
 
Bethany CT
 

 

 

 
 
 
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> On Nov 29, 2020 at 8:56 AM, Jim Bronson  <jimbronsonashland [at] gmail.com>  
> wrote:
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>  I would love to have any guidance from experienced cohousers about 
> gas/no-gas brought to the RiverSong. I know there must be a cost savings 
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