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- From: lizard@cats.ucsc.edu (Raul Essig)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press rele
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:57:55 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- In article <1993Jan22.151131.11570@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> whitlock@dcss.mcmaster.ca (Jeremy Whitlock) writes:
- >
- >I like my electricity flowing reliably and without any thought on my part
- >from a clean source where experts are running things 24 hours a day. When
- >I see someone proudly heating their home by chopping the forests down and
- >burning them in woodstoves and furnaces, I am not impressed.
- >
- >Well, that's how it seems to me anyway.
-
- Then maybe the green-ER solution would be to install solar water heaters
- with your current "reliable" system as backup you don't have to go
- COMPLETELY alternative. I just noticed you are in Canada, so
- the solar water idea just went out the window :-). Maybe the thing to
- do then is concentrate on energy efficiency instead of quality. For some
- people an energy source that isn't reliable 100% of the time is no kind of
- inconvenience, whereas they could have solar/wind/whatever alternative energy.
- For those people that need that E when they want it, the only proper thing to
- do is do one's best to conserve energy. Think of the pollution that
- would be saved if everyone on this continent had their homes properly
- insulationed, double paned glass, clean refridgerator radiators,
- clean furnace filters, efficient lighting, etc. etc.
- What I'm trying to say is if you want to cut the pollution you create
- indirectly through use of electricity, you can either generate the
- energy in a way that is twice as clean, or you can cut your usage in half,
- or some combination of the two.
- Maybe this is obvious, but it seems to me like the concept of energy
- reduction is completely lost to most people ( with the exception of most
- of the readers of this newgroup :-) ).
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- lizard@cats.ucsc.edu
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