In Huge Breakthrough, Iceland Has Uncovered the Ultimate Renewable Energy SourceEnvironmental | 206910 hits | Feb 05 7:26 am | Posted by: DrCaleb  On Jan. 28, President Barack Obama spent a large part of his State of the Union address detailing his "All-Of-The-Above" energy strategy. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Iceland may have just developed the ultimate "All-Of-The-Below" energy strategy � it'sCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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But if it's as cost effective as some people claim people everywhere will flock to electricity rather than gas and oil to heat their homes.
The only problem with this is that it won't be cheap for consumers since the Gov't's will claim they need more hydro capacity, or upgrades and the only way they'll be able to do that is by raising hydro rates to a level so high nobody will be able to afford it thus driving people back to natural gas and oil.
No matter what they do the consumer will always end up paying more for less which means that just because it's renewable there's no guarantee you and I will ever see a cheaper alternative to what we have now.
But if it's as cost effective as they say people everywhere will flock to electricity rather than gas and oil to heat their homes.
In Iceland, home and office heating is free. They also run pipes under the streets and sidewalks and put geothermal heated water through them to melt all the snow and ice. Screw snowploughs!
No matter what they do the consumer will always end up paying more for less.
All depends on who we let run the show.
But if it's as cost effective as they say people everywhere will flock to electricity rather than gas and oil to heat their homes.
In Iceland, home and office heating is free. They also run pipes under the streets and sidewalks and put geothermal heated water through them to melt all the snow and ice. Screw snowploughs!
No matter what they do the consumer will always end up paying more for less.
All depends on who we let run the show.
Independents only supply some of the power. It's the Gov'ts who runs the grid in pretty much every province so there'd be no getting away from them and their hands the cookie jar mentality and I don't see any reigning Gov't even the Greens giving away that power to independents.
Given human nature and that includes the assholes we elect we'll be paying as much if not more for this "renewable" resource than we do now for the ones that are finite.
But if it's as cost effective as they say people everywhere will flock to electricity rather than gas and oil to heat their homes.
In Iceland, home and office heating is free. They also run pipes under the streets and sidewalks and put geothermal heated water through them to melt all the snow and ice. Screw snowploughs!
No matter what they do the consumer will always end up paying more for less.
All depends on who we let run the show.
they also heat the soil and greenhouses that allow them to grow their own pineapples
You don't think this would be better?
It is nuclear power.
90% of the heat in the earths core is from nuclear decay.
Well long story short. A couple of years later I asked my brother in law how it was working out for the people who had them and he informed me that they had all had to upgrade their undersized conventional heating systems because the geothermal ones didn't produce enough heat for the homes.
And now we get to the truth of the article.
Just another sensational headline with no substance. The truth is that unless you live in a place like Iceland this is pretty much a non starter making it only renewable for certain people and certainly not the world like the headline makes you think.
So as for replacing gas and oil well, don't sell your shares anytime soon.
About 15 years back I can remember walking around a new subdivision in South Surrey with my brother in law who lived a couple of blocks away and watching them installing geothermal heating systems in each new home. TBH I found it fascinating and thought what a great idea. The cost was built into the house so it wasn't apparent to the homeowner but, if what they claimed was true would supposedly save the owner the cost of the system in only a matter of a few short years.
Well long story short. A couple of years later I asked my brother in law how it was working out for the people who had them and he informed me that they had all had to upgrade their undersized conventional heating systems because the geothermal ones didn't produce enough heat for the homes.
And now we get to the truth of the article.
Just another sensational headline with no substance. The truth is that unless you live in a place like Iceland this is pretty much a non starter making it only renewable for certain people and certainly not the world like the headline makes you think.
So as for replacing gas and oil well, don't sell your shares anytime soon.
You seemed to realize this is used to generate electricity in your first post, here talk about direct geothermal heating. You do realize they're different, don't you. What your bil is talkig about are just heat exchangers, working on the heat in the ground. I don't know if the term geothermal even applies to it. I saw an ad for such systems just recently, also wondered if they can produce enough heat to really stand alone.
But we do have geothermal hotspots in BC. One such is the Meager Creek area behind Pemberton. Used to have nice hotsprings til they were destroyed by a flood. Great to sit in after coming off a glacier trip. That are has been talked about quite a bit for harnessing conventional geothermal power, it might be suitable for this approach as well. The point is that the project doesn't have to be right next to the homes you're heating, since it's electricity and can be conducted. Meager Creek is still a lot closer to Vancouver than the Peace River area.