Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Plug-n-play solutions for home electrification, and options for power outages (Part 2)" video.

  1.  @kephir4eg  Thing is, my current dryer is still churning along after 22 years. With my experience with recent appliances, it would be a hard sell to get me to spend money on something that might not last long enough to make up the price difference.
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  2. A well insulated freezer doesn't need much cooling though so that's kind-of mismatched.
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  3. Interesting fact, the AUS power socket started out as a US 240V socket but is no longer current. The US does have 240V but it's wired only to a few locations. Weirdly it has at least five "standard" sockets for 240V.
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  4. The main issue is the heat exchanger. Not enough surface area and it's slow, too much and it clogs up with lint. I wonder how they've got around that.
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  5. They are also less susceptible to damage and require less maintenance and damage investigation tools and techniques are quite advanced now. The last comprehensive study I saw, they came out about equal cost-wise with the benefit of burying that the environment looks a lot nicer. I live in an old, pretty neighborhood but look up and it's ugly wires everywhere.
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  6. I got one. Propane is definitely the way to go for keeping things non-messy and nice smelling. Then keep some gas back for emergencies.
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  7.  @holben27  It's so cheap that it's often burned because the cost of transporting it isn't worth it. Some places are now using the gas to generate electricity and mining Bitcoin.
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  8.  @C0deH0wler  Definitely. Though I replaced a dishwasher a few years ago because it was breaking as I was making repairs and the replacement is simply not as good. I also have a 25 year old fridge which is running fine while I'm on my third newer fridge. I count both as huge wastes of resources.
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  9. I had one in the UK. I hope they've improved. It took forever to run and the clothes weren't all the way dry in the end. We ended up buying an extra dryer just to keep up.
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  10. Surely that's for installation of the breaker box and is to account for upgrades such as this. What would be the purpose of requiring spare breaker slots always?
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  11. That's largely due to the lack of pressure in the hot-water systems of many UK homes. The main issue is if you live in a hard-water area, they scale up something rotten and aren't very serviceable.
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