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[kiora]

Power companies on the up and up, gas out the back door in the low C world

"Yates said an average home using gas for heating and cooking emits 1400 kilograms of carbon dioxide a year – about equal to 7500 kilometres in a small car.

Provided by the national grid, the same amount of electricity would produce around 700 kilograms of carbon dioxide, according to Toitū Envirocare’s carbon calculator.?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...rgy-researcher

[Tomtom]

"Yates said an average home using gas for heating and cooking emits 1400 kilograms of carbon dioxide a year – about equal to 7500 kilometres in a small car.

Well a typical, conventional small car (say a VW Golf 1.6) emits about 166g of Carbondioxde per Kilometer so this part is feasibly true.

Per capita the average New Zealander emits approximately 9600 kg of carbon dioxide per year (about half that of an Australian or American, in line with someone in the UK or Germany) from fossil sources.

[kiora]

Tom I was more observing the C from using gas for home cooking & heating.
I have always assumed it is more efficient to use gas directly in homes than using it to fire up a gas turbine for power generation