Victoria bans gas connections in new homes from 2024

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• pedro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  French here, we have the same kind of regulation since 2020 I believe.

  Do you produce gas in Australia?

  Here it’s all imported (and it was mostly from Russia before the Ukraine war) and we produce electricity mostly from nuclear plants so it’s easy to push gas out the homes.

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but its more valuable as an export than it is domestically.

    Australia loves green initiatives locally but REALLY loves our trillion dollar coal and gas export industry.

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  • -spam-@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shit loads of it, along with coal its a massive earner for export.

    Our two major political parties have so much coal and gas money pumping into them that anything that may reduce the profitability doesn't get far.

    We don't have gas at home but I think it's stupidly expensive as a local consumer too.

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• KagariY@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i do prefer gas over induction. I like to eat stir fry which requires wok-hei, which induction stove top would not offer.

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  • nevernevermore@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    depending on how often you do it you could buy a little butane stove from bunnings. We changed to induction and i'm in love with it, even tho i thought I would hate it. But yeah, I use the little camp stove for stirfrys and charring vegetables.

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  • yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see a true blue Aussie

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have to wonder how much pressure the electricity network will be under with all the extra people relying on it.

  I’m suddenly having flashbacks to the 90s when that gas plant explosion happened. Two weeks of heating up water in a barrel and having baths.

  With electricity the sole source of energy, any critical failure means the entire state is a bit fucked, unless we can rely from power from other states as a backup. But we’d have to make sure those states have sufficient power to export and the right transmission infrastructure to support it.

  I’d love to say it’s all sweet, but given the drama last year with load shedding, I just hope they’ve thought this through.

  By the way I’m not advocating the continued use of dirty fossil fuels, but I would like the transition to different energy sources managed competently.

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• bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why natural gas isn’t considered green?

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  • Mountaineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because burning it (mostly methane) creates/releases greenhouse emissions such as CO2, CH4, and N2O.

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    • bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you.

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  • shogun5000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because lobbied politicians said so.

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait, how will this affect ScoMo’s gas led recovery?

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