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by pinot 1245 days ago
Can't heat with gas without electricity, unless you have a genset or power wall kind of thing to provide epower.
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Until a couple years ago we had a gas-fired tankless water heater which used a single D-cell battery for ignition, which had to be changed once every year or two. It wasn't connected to wall power at all.
But you need a blower or pump in order to circulate heat in a house. Hot water is better than nothing but it won't keep your fish from freezing.
There are, or used to be, Bosch tankless water heaters which used a small turbine connected to a piezo-electric igniter, no external power source required ever.
I have a sol-ark 12k which allows for grid isolation and a bunch of batteries.