[cpdiii]

My house is all electric and I have a high efficiency heat pump. I heat and cool about 2000 square feet. My average electrical bill for the year is 190 bucks a month. All the lights in my house are fluorescent. I am considering a ground loop system heat exchange. When the economics of it are break even it will be installed. I go green based on economics and what it costs me, and nothing else. When Al Gores Carbon Foot Print equals mine I will will become a Demonic Rat. That "aint gonna" happen.

PS
Global Warming is real, it comes from the sun, not CO2. If history is any proper record we have no idea if we are in a warming period of on the verge of a cooling period. If we are on the beginning of a true warming period and the ice caps do really melt civilization will be the better for it. Vast areas of land will be available for cultivation and civilizations expansion. The rising sea levels will be very very slow over many centuries and we will simply move in accordance with the sea. Buildings will not succumb to rising sea levels as they will be centuries old when it happens and long gone before the sea covers that area if it happens which is in great doubt.

The big winners in global warming if it happens are Russia and Canada. They would become the bread basket of the world.

[o_zarkman44]

I am like you. I will go green when the economics make sense and the lecturers start leading by example.
I am very interested in solar heating. Heating our homes and hot water accounts for 70% of our energy consumption.
I would like to change my central air unit to a more efficient one, but because of changes in how the new units utilize electricity, I will have to have considerable wiring upgrades to handle the load according to an electrician friend. And my house is not that old.


Algore = chicka little, the sky is warming the sky is warming!