1 The cost of gas has risen an average of 8% a year over the last 10 years, a huge increase. 2  Gas heating will cost Central Indiana residents more than $1,800 this winter to heat a 1,800 sq. ft. home. 3  You can convert an existing gas furnace to a hybrid system by adding an electric heat pump.lectric vs. Gas Heat. In a shift from the past, it is now less expensive to heat with electricity in Indiana than with natural gas. 1  The cost of gas has risen an average of 8% a year over the last 10 years, a huge increase.
The habitable zone, also known as the âGoldilocks Zoneâ, is the region around a star where the average temperature on a planet allows for liquid water with which to make porridge. Itâs that liquid water that we hunt for not only for our future uses, but as an indicator of where alien life could be in the Universe.
Pyle. 1  If any of the planet-ending tropes of sci-fi come to pass in real life, we could now have a place to point our not-yet-real starships toward. NASA announced on Thursday that it has found the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our own sun. Scientists don't yet know for sure if the planet spotted by the Kepler space telescope, dubbed Kepler-452b, can support life.