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Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (news.stanford.edu)
submitted 9 months ago* by to c/science@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Induction stoves should be Mandatory in mew construction. Coil electric works just fine but we need to introduce people to tech that's superior to gas to get the switch to stick

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I got an induction maybe 10 years ago or so. It is amazing how fast I can boil water or just get going in general. Lovely tech

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I think that electric cooking speed is only limited by how much power you can draw from your wiring. And if you have good wiring, cooking speeds can be extremely fast. It's a bit like with cars, where people get excited about having a lot of HP (horse power) where idk (i'm not a car expert) sth like 100 HP is considered "crazy good" and everybody wants to have it (that's combustion engine cars). Then, an electric vehicle comes across the corner (and it's not even an expensive EV, just a cheap one) and it easily has 700 HP. Like, the acceleration power is immense, it's enormous. EVs accelerate crazy fast, and it would actually be dangerously powerful if they didn't have software control to throttle the maximum engine power.

    Suddenly, everybody stopped talking about HP. All these car-crazy friends i had when i was in school, the moment EVs appeared on the stage, they stopped being impressed by HP.

    The same is with electric appliances like cooking stoves. They can be crazy fast and there's no upper limit on power if you get good wiring. It's only limited by the device so you don't accidentally burn your food all the time.

    I think that with gas flames, the flames are more-or-less always the same size, while for electric cooking, there's a much greater range in heating power, both up and down. You can also have very small, very gentle heating, that is difficult to get with gas.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I don't get why there's such a huge push from self-declared "left-wing" people to prescribe others what to do. Supposedly, "left-wing" people don't like being told what to do, i.e. by employers (who are making them work in bad ways) or by "main-stream dominant right-wing culture". At the same time, the very same people who don't like being told what to do, tell others what to do. Such as by wanting to force everyone to switch to a specific type of technology that's supposedly superior. I don't get this behavior.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Renters don't get a choice, and pollution affects everyone

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    renters don't get a choice in practice, but they should in theory, and pollution from gas stoves is less than from combustion cars, just that it's densely concentrated in your apartment, so levels are still high for you. but it does not affect everyone

    a better move would be to actually build social housing, instead of prescribing others what they should build. otherwise you're simply seen as "the party that wants to forbid others from doing what they like", instead of being seen as "the party that actually does some meaningful construction and adds to society that way".

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