Return to electric heat.

[highwater]

You'd think it would be a no brainer. Richard Gilbert proposed that Hamilton make energy production and conservation its civic mission in his 2006 report to the city on peak oil.

http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=316

Naturally it fell on deaf ears.

[omro]

Originally Posted by highwater

You'd think it would be a no brainer. Richard Gilbert proposed that Hamilton make energy production and conservation its civic mission in his 2006 report to the city on peak oil.

http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=316

Naturally it fell on deaf ears.

Agreed, a total no brainer. This passage leapt out at me, though not entirely on topic of electric heat, but it's electric:

Calgary has installed a light rail transit system that is powered entirely by wind. (To be precise: the transit system draws from the electric grid and the wind farm feeds into the grid, so that the wind farm produces as much electricity as the transit system uses.) This is an excellent example for Hamilton to follow.

Weren't there plans to build a wind farm for Hamilton on Lake Ontario?

[Duckyboy]

Originally Posted by omro

Agreed, a total no brainer. This passage leapt out at me, though not entirely on topic of electric heat, but it's electric:



Weren't there plans to build a wind farm for Hamilton on Lake Ontario?

Yea, this would seem to make sense. And look at today; it was so windy... I know NOTHING of harnessing wind power (I'm an accounting student, not an engineer!), but Hamilton seems pretty ripe fot this kind of city-changing technology.

Sorry for inadvertantly turning this thread/talking about "wind power" rather than it's original "electric heat"... it just caught my eye and I had to comment on it.

[omro]

Originally Posted by Duckyboy

Sorry for inadvertantly turning this thread/talking about "wind power" rather than it's original "electric heat"... it just caught my eye and I had to comment on it.

The wind power would provide the electricity for the electric heater, without the burning of fossil fuels to create the electricity to re-create the heat (which is kind of dumb if you think about it), so it sort of follows in my book

[MsMe]

They should change the heading of the thread to "sources of energy".

[omro]

Originally Posted by MsMe

They should change the heading of the thread to "sources of energy".

Not necessarily, we could start a new thread and return this one back to its intended topic.

It's my fault, I'm forever going off on tangents.

[Duckyboy]

Originally Posted by omro

The wind power would provide the electricity for the electric heater, without the burning of fossil fuels to create the electricity to re-create the heat (which is kind of dumb if you think about it), so it sort of follows in my book

Hahaha! I like the "degrees-of-seperation"-style logic you applied there...

Thanks for getting my back!