We run a gas stove inside our house all the time. I think it’s something other than propane grill, which isn’t much different. Maybe charcoal, maybe generator, maybe car in garage. Maybe maybe they are bringing their grills into small rooms with no ventilation.
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Idiots. You have to open the freezer.
Maybe in Arlen.
I just spent some time looking on zillow at homes for sale in the Dallas area and all the ones with gas stoves seemed to have gas lines based on the description. Granted, they were more expensive homes than the average Texan lives in, but those are the people who would even contemplate buying a backup generator.
Two different conversations going on here, but since you brought this up, I assume you have a dedicated gas line for this and you don’t have propane tank somewhere on the property that supplies your stove that you have to change out periodically.
Like many people, I have a large propane tank outside, which is periodically refilled by the propane company.
It supplies all of my propane needs.
What are your propane needs (i.e. which appliances)? How often does it need refilling? Would it be practical to run a generator off of it?
We do have gas from the the gas company. What difference does that make?
I think that if you were going to have a generator, you would need the gas line as opposed to a tank. I suspect the tank would run out pretty quick if it is powering a lot of the house instead of the few appliances that it normally does.
The answer to everything like this is “it depends”. A small generator doesn’t use that much.
I would think if people are dying from running generators inside, they are running gasoline powered generators. If they had propane powered generators, the generators would usually be outside.
eta: And since few people have electric heat, maybe they are charcoal grilling in the kitchen and running their gasoline generator in the living room so they can play xbox.
I wasn’t asking about this in relation to people dying.
I was just curious if someone who tried to plan for this by having a generator would be fucked anyway because the gas supply is also impaired.
I have a generator myself. It’s outside and on the gas line. I really have no idea how much it uses when the power goes out, but it’s capable of powering nearly the entire house when we lose power (which isn’t that infrequent and why we got it in the first place).
I lived in Austin for almost 20 years and ime this is incorrect.
Nice to see the OKC Thunder are playing tonight in the middle of an electrical grid crisis. Republican states are so fucking incompetent it makes me physically shake with rage
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Yeah, a fair number of people here have them as well. It is a possible problem here because earthquakes can disrupt gas transmission.
People seem to measure the propane generators in gallons per hour, rather than gallons per kwh. I guess maybe they aren’t flexible enough to adjust power quickly with demand? Anyway, I’m just going to average a bunch of stuff I’m looking at and maybe you’re looking at about 2 gallons of propane per hour. Seems like people often have 500 gallon tanks, but there are 1000 gallon tanks too…so that’s a lot of time if your propane tank is full.
That’s way longer lasting than I would have thought. Longest I been without power was 5 days. Had a 4 day spell a couple of months ago. If all I’m using is ~50 gallons a day, running it off a tank doesn’t seem that bad.
Is your generator able to run on propane? Some are dual-fuel, but the energy density of propane is more than double natural gas. Apparently you can convert propane->natural gas by changing a regulator, but I don’t know if it’s so easy the other way around.
I have no clue. As far as I’m concerned it’s a magic box. Power goes out, generator automatically turns on. When power comes back, it turns itself off. If it somehow malfunctioned during an outage, I’d be at a complete loss for what to do. All I know is that it is connected to the main gas line for the house.
It runs like 15 minutes a week or something, right? They’re supposed to get some exercise.