Eli5 if electric vehicles are better for the environment than fossil fuel, why isn’t there any emphasis on heating homes with electricity rather gas or oil?
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It is done. In French alps they use electricity since the 70s at least, but they use nuclear plants to make electricity.
The new trend is to make electricity on your roof with solar panels (you don’t lose power due to transporting it. Electric lines can lose up to 3%) and tre second step is to use heat pumps instead of electric heaters.
Heat pumps are a lot more efficient than heaters, and they also provide air conditioning in summer.
if you are in the USA, oil and far are so cheap that there is less drive into changing system.
In Europe it is a net gain, you save the planet AND save money.
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