 Ontario to spend $7-billion on sweeping climate change planEnvironmental | 207147 hits | May 16 10:05 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog  Ontario�s $7-billion bid to slash carbon footprint will affect every aspect of life in province while disrupting auto and energy sectorsCommentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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How much colder is Kathy hoping she can make an Ontario winter?
What a laughable idea.
All this to do what, I wonder?
How much colder is Kathy hoping she can make an Ontario winter?
That's not the thing here. The thing here is spending $7 billion and then getting out of office before the results of the spending are supposed to be observed.
Summary: Someone figured out how to fleece Ontario taxpayers of $7 billion.
What a laughable idea.
Only electric heat, now at $1000 and soon to be $2000 a month.
What a laughable idea.
Not laughable at all.
We can currently build homes that can be heated with the equivalent of a toaster.
Codes are so far behind building technology that there is currently superior products that we can't even use.
We can currently build homes that can be heated with the equivalent of a toaster.
They're wheelchair accessible, too!
What a laughable idea.
They seem insane enough to spend another $7 billion then to set up some kind of police force to barge into homes to enforce compliance. And to make sure the furnace is attached to a windmill, or to a gerbil running on an exercise wheel, or whatever the fuck else it is they'll think up by then.
They seem insane enough to spend another $7 billion then to set up some kind of police force to barge into homes to enforce compliance.
Yeah, that'll probably be how it'll happen.
And to make sure the furnace is attached to a windmill, or to a gerbil running on an exercise wheel, or whatever the fuck else it is they'll think up by then.
YES! It's the "whatever the fuck else they'll think up by then" that's the key. Human ingenuity used to be something we liked to bet on. Not so much anymore, I guess.
Electric home heating is fine, until the electricity fails. When my family lived in Britain, our 6Kw coal burner was indispensable, especially when power lines were damaged by blizzards.
Geothermal systems, heat pumps which take advantage of the relatively constant ground temperature, are expensive, and require electric power to operate.
As for electric cars, a petroleum or diesel car can keep the occupants warm and safe for many hours, if the car is trapped in heavy snow. An electric car, with its much lower energy density, and the susceptibility of batteries to cold, not so much
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/16/ ... g-by-2030/
Just curious, if anybody has personal experience.
Hell, even England the land of the dancing gnomes has figured out that wind farms are ineffective but not Ontario, they're still looking for that magic bullet to solve the worlds problems by all by themselves.
Britain has learned the hard way that their headlong green rush into medieval technology has been wasteful and foolish. They spent time and money trying to force a technology to do what it simply can't do. Despite what Boone Pickens says, wind's optimum use is only as backup and it can't supply more than twenty percent of required loads. Pickens is a subsidy hunter, promising a 25% return on a 4,000 MW windmill farm in Texas, based entirely on federal tax credits. Have you ever seen how much land wind power requires? Pickens' project will need 1,200 square miles. But, none in his backyard, please. He thinks the wind towers are too ugly to be on his large ranch.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/05/flo ... effective/