cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8503579
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this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
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For stoves, inductions are becoming the de-facto gold standard.
Don't give the gas propagandists the time of day on this issue - gas stoves have been strategically pushed as an effort to keep gas infrastructure installed across the U.S by the gas lobby.
As someone who lives where the power goes out if the wind sneezes during an ice / heavy wet snow storm, there’s reasons to have non electric sources for both cooking and heat.
Sure, wood furnaces can be a good option here to not have any dependency on neither the delivery of electricity nor gas. Food that can be eaten without needing to be heated is also good from a preparedness perspective, and a trail stove is also a good idea.
There are times where storms are so bad here that power is out for a considerable amount of time and it’s brutally cold. Relying on electric is a non starter, people would literally die from exposure.
For most of the country it’s fine, but not for places that get deadly cold.
Wood furnaces are nice but not every place has one. My place does not.
How cold is your place relative to Murmansk, Yakutsk or Oymyakon?
I don’t know how cold those places are but I live in VT in the mountains where it does go down to -20F on the regular and -40 occasionally.
See climate sections of Murmansk, Yakutsk and Oymyakon.
VT is often colder than murmansk but less cold than the other two cities listed. Note the freedom units: -40 is the same as metric but -20F is more like -30C. Apparently -20C is only -4F? Which is not that cold but a common temp in VT.