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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Critical_Insight@feddit.uk to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

That massive spike of 50c/kWh at the left looks tiny compared to today even though that's already insanely expensive

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[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

To do what with? Light a coal fire in the living room?

It doesn't sound safe even in a proper fireplace.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

found one whose never felt the heat of a coal stove

it's handy to have backup heat source when the power goes out so pipes don't freeze

[-] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Nope, I am far too young for that.

I have never heard of anyone that currently has a coal-heated house. I thought it was entirely dead in the developed world. Here these heating options are common district heating, geothermal, direct electric heating, some other kind of heat pump, biofuel (like pellets), and a tiny bit of oil and gas.

The most popular by far is district heating, after that comes electric heating (which includes electricity used for geothermal heat pumps and other kinds) and then biofuel. Gas and oil are barely visible on a graph.

I just tried to find a place in my country which sells coal for heating but alas I didn't succeed. You can of course buy coal but its intended purpose is always grilling or smithing.

[-] fonetek@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your thinking of charcoal, which are chunks of wood converted into almost pure carbon by heating them above their combustion temperature in a low oxygen environment. He was talking about coal that was mined out of the ground. Plants from an ancient swamps that didn't decompose, but were converted into almost pure carbon from millions of years of heat and pressure from being buried.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

No.

I don't think any type of coal heating has existed for homes in quite a long time in my country.

I honestly thought it was phased out decades ago in pretty much the entire western world.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I have electric! The coal stove is backup, some people use wood as a backup. It's not uncommon

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