That’s why it’s much more environmentally friendly to rely on an electric furnace, even if it costs you more money in energy expenses.
I’m trying my best to be more mindful of the environment as I age. I don’t think I appreciated this enough when I was a teenager because I correctly tossed away all my recyclable plastic bottles due to sheer laziness. Thinking of this now really provides me with fourth hand embarrassment, but at least I’m trying to atone for our mistakes. I have a separate garbage can in our kitchen just for recyclables & I make sure they’re separated when they go into the bins in the garage. Once my garage day rolls around again I then take them to the curb. I realized there is so much more that I can do in regards to our carbon footprint than simply recycling cans, plastic bottles & cardboard boxes. Many of us are using environmentally-unfriendly heating & cooling systems in our businesses and homes without even realizing. Anyone who lives in a frosty temperature understands the sheer destructive force of using a fuel burning furnace, but it comes at a cost even if the consumer never sees it. Simply harvesting the fuels from the environment has a toll on the temperature, but it gets even worse when fuel is burned to heat the air inside your home. That’s why it’s much more environmentally friendly to rely on an electric furnace, even if it costs you more money in energy expenses. But you can regularly buy electric radiant floors, which are efficient with their heat production compared to a fan-forced gas or oil furnace. Perhaps the best “electric furnace” of them all is the heat pump, as it simply utilizes a refrigerant cycle to pull heat inside from outdoors. It’s amazing technology, particularly the geothermal heat pumps which harvest heat from deep down in the ground.