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[quote="Sgt Stryker":9ecd4]The US natural gas furnace idea is a lot cleaner than what ze krauts use, but nuke/electrical would be better still.[/quote:9ecd4]

97% of all new electric power generation coming online in the US is natural gas. Coal can be made to be very clean, it just takes money, lots of it. The natural gas number is some what deceptive. Most gas generators can burn natural gas, fuel oil or deisel. Fuel oil is cheap, but not as clean as gas and deisel is not as cost effective as either. Most of the heat here (N. Florida) is electric - we just had our highest electric load that our system has ever seen due to the cold. It was 18 degrees here this morning.