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A standard electric water heater is responsible for over 5,800 pounds of CO₂, a greenhouse gas, going into the air in a single year. That's just ONE water heater in ONE home. Think how much CO₂ goes into the air when you multiply that by thousands of electric water heaters.

 

A standard natural gas water heater releases only HALF that amount of CO₂ over a year's time.

 

Switching from an electric water heater to a natural gas water heater will keep 2,900 pounds of CO₂ out of the air every year. An instantaneous natural gas water heater will do even better. Simply put, for every one kilowatt hour of coal-generated electricity that we reduce, we can eliminate up to 1.5 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

 

Only 30% of the electricity that is produced at the power plant reaches your home. The rest is lost along the way through the power lines.

 

To give you an example, for every 100 kilowatts of electricity generated at the power plant, by the time those kilowatts reach your home there are only 30 of them!

 

With natural gas, however, the only bit of waste is the 1% transportation loss from the natural gas refinery to your home. For every 100 cubic feet of natural gas that comes from the refinery through pipelines to you, your home gets 99 cubic feet of natural gas energy (99%). Now that is efficiency--and conservation!

 

According to a just-released report from the U. S. Department of Energy, in 2006 the electric power generated in the U. S. for residential use put three and a half times more CO₂ into the air than came from residential use of natural gas.*

 

From 1995 to 2006 CO₂ emissions from electric power generation went UP 128% while emissions from natural gas use came DOWN 10%.*

 

We need electricity, of course. But we don't need to be wasting it for those functions that can be served more efficiently and in a more environmentally sound manner by natural gas, such as heating our water and our homes, and cooking our meals and drying our clothes.

 

*From "Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2006" published November 2007 by the Energy Information Administration, U. S. Department of Energy.

 

 

Think also of how much more comfort and ease you have when you heat your water with natural gas. You and your family can take long showers that stay hot. There's always enough hot water to fill a spa tub. You don't have to wait for hot water for a load of laundry just because someone took a bath. Ready to learn more? Just go to the "Super Energy" and "Connect to Gas" pages of this website and find out how to bring a Green New World into your home.