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What are the pros and cons of long- and short-term steam heat versus gas heat?
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Steam is only produced by consuming some type of fuel(i.e. oil,gas,electric,wood etc). You use a fuel to boil water to make steam and the steam becomes a way of moving energy(heat).What are you heating water or air,with the gas heat?
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