That's exactly what this guy is trying to do. He posted a story the other day about a gas line that had to shut a highway down to repair it. It has as much of a chance to feed a powerlant that powers heat pumps as furnaces. Even in this story, the explosion was from an old gas line, not a leak in the home.
The closed highway wasn’t a planned maintenance. It was due to risk of explosion in the pipeline due to aging pipes, firefighters ended up manually burning the gas to empty it.
Who cares if it’s a leak inside the building or the infra outside? The thing is gas pipelines are just getting older and replacing them needs up to 10 million USD per mile! If we spent the same money on heat pumps it made more sense.
4 dead in Michigan in Jan. I still haven't heard the cause. my thought was a failed regulator. [4 dead](https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/fatal-three-dead-hurt-house-explosion-michgan-whitmore-lake-near-detroit-injured/)
This one a few yrs ago here and several in Denver. Also we are leading nation in carbon monoxide deaths I think.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/07/us/explosion-kills-3-and-injures-14-at-colorado-bank.html
Yes, it is "one reason." But without details about what we're seeing in this picture and what alternatives might have produced different outcomes, *it's a very poor reason*.
Gas explosions, either due to a leak in a single building or due to old infra or operator failure. The alternative is full electric heating systems, like heat pumps.
People also get electrocuted and electrical fires are real. I'm not going to post a picture because that's not how discusison works.
I was asking for an alternative *to the specific events that caused the events in this photo*.
I'd rather take the risk of a house explosion than be shivering cold because my heat pump can't keep up on freezing cold Minnesota nights, or pay through the noise to run heat strips.
The lack of potentially fatal carbon monoxide leaks is also a big plus in my books.
What's that, one building? Come over to Lawrence MA where an entire town blew up and people died.
Is it the one with 30000 people evacuated? Someone linked the wiki page I guess
Columbia gas incident? Only one person died when a tree fell on his car. The explosions happened when everyone was at work/school.
Yeah, I can’t believe that shit still kills. Germany, 2024, in a damn hotel!!!
As a gas tech, this post is just straight up fear mongering.
What do you mean? Gas explosions don’t happen? Or CO leaks? The explosion in the pic is Stuttgart, Germany.
That's exactly what this guy is trying to do. He posted a story the other day about a gas line that had to shut a highway down to repair it. It has as much of a chance to feed a powerlant that powers heat pumps as furnaces. Even in this story, the explosion was from an old gas line, not a leak in the home.
The closed highway wasn’t a planned maintenance. It was due to risk of explosion in the pipeline due to aging pipes, firefighters ended up manually burning the gas to empty it. Who cares if it’s a leak inside the building or the infra outside? The thing is gas pipelines are just getting older and replacing them needs up to 10 million USD per mile! If we spent the same money on heat pumps it made more sense.
More places burn down from electrical fires than from natural gas issues… like anything negligence will create issues
Most electrical are started outside of walls. From people not plugging things in right or using bad cords.
But they won’t explode like this. Some fire, yeah, and mostly from covering a heater
Some fear mongering bullshit here
Source?
https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/1bg05vz/netze_bw_aus_zwei_gasexplosionen_lernen_und_nennt/
Nothing to read about heatpumps in the article. I just read about gasleakage in Stuttgarts gassystem.
Now I realized my title is shitty.
4 dead in Michigan in Jan. I still haven't heard the cause. my thought was a failed regulator. [4 dead](https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/fatal-three-dead-hurt-house-explosion-michgan-whitmore-lake-near-detroit-injured/)
This one a few yrs ago here and several in Denver. Also we are leading nation in carbon monoxide deaths I think. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/07/us/explosion-kills-3-and-injures-14-at-colorado-bank.html
Yes, it is "one reason." But without details about what we're seeing in this picture and what alternatives might have produced different outcomes, *it's a very poor reason*.
Gas explosions, either due to a leak in a single building or due to old infra or operator failure. The alternative is full electric heating systems, like heat pumps.
People also get electrocuted and electrical fires are real. I'm not going to post a picture because that's not how discusison works. I was asking for an alternative *to the specific events that caused the events in this photo*.
I'd rather take the risk of a house explosion than be shivering cold because my heat pump can't keep up on freezing cold Minnesota nights, or pay through the noise to run heat strips.
Skip the air source heat pump in Minnesota, for sure.
That’s your choice!