Environmental Benefits of Propane Gas Systems
Power plants are a major source of air pollution, with coal-fired power plants spewing 59% of total U.S. sulfur dioxide pollution and 18% of total nitrous oxides every year. Coal-fired power plants also release about 50% of particulate pollution and are the biggest polluter of toxic mercury, the largest contributor of hazardous air toxins in the U.S. Additionally, power plants release over 40% of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, a primary contributor to global warming.
Direct-fired gas appliances - fueled by an HBH Gas System - dramatically reduce the need for energy from power plants. HBH Gas Systems offers communities the option of gas where it was otherwise not considered available, avoiding inefficient all-electric homes. Using propane for heating and water heating alone reduces the average home’s carbon emissions by 8.5 tons of carbon per year, more than offsetting the emissions from an average vehicle. In other words, each homeowner in a community with an HBH Gas System is effectively offsetting the carbon emissions from one vehicle simply by fueling their water and space heaters with propane.
A central gas system from HBH allows for the implementation of high-efficiency gas appliances in lieu of low efficiency, grid-hogging electric appliances. Homeowners are comforted by the fact that a significant portion of their energy consumption comes from clean-burning, highly-efficient propane.
Propane is non-toxic and insoluble in water; therefore, it offers minimal risks to aquifers, ground water supplies, and soil. Because it quickly vaporizes when released from a pressurized container, it doesn't spill, pool, or leave a residue.
One of the most tangible examples of the environmental benefits of using gas in the home relates to the particulate emissions of new EPA-approved wood heating stoves and traditional wood burning fireplaces. It takes only thirty houses heated with EPA-approved wood stoves to create as much particulate pollution as over 12,000 houses heated with liquid propane (LP) gas. Moreover, the pollution from thirty non-certified stoves or fireplaces equal the particulate pollution of 30,000 houses fired with LP gas.
HBH Gas Systems steers off-grid developments away from inefficient, carbon-heavy electricity toward more sustainable development fueled by gas. LP gas is the obvious choice for this application: it is half the cost of electricity, clean-burning, and preferred by homeowners around the globe.
Economic Benefits