On Sun, 16 May 2010 00:29:17 -0700 (PDT), terry >
wrote:

>On May 15, 8:27*pm, Bob Eager > wrote:
>
>Being sort in the middle here in Canada, with a harsher climate and
>one tenth the population of the USA in a larger country, will add the
>following comments.
>
>Electricity, produced almost 100% by less polluting hydro (water)
>power in this part of the country is reasonably priced. Domestically
>homes here use electrical heating almost entirely. Especially new
>construction and renovations.

Tell the enviro-whackos that.

>Also since electrcity is used to heat hot water, if when that water
>cools down in the pipe or gradually over a two week period escapes
>from extremely well insulated hot water tanks it contributes to
>heating the home!

Then why insulate the tank at all?

>If the hot water was turned off the electric heaters would have to run
>just a little bit longer. All electricity entering the house ends up
>as heat! So it doesn't matter how that electricity is turned into
>heat; by inefficient light bulbs, electric heaters or via hot
>water ............ in fact some use electric hot water 'furnaces' in
>some cases replacing 50 year old, hot air or hot water, oil furnaces
>or for warm water underfloor heating.
>
>I can remember the dirt, smogs and pollution of the 1940s and 50s in
>the UK when we still burned coal! Acid rain! The rain off the roof in
>Liverpool, for example, was black!

Yes, it's amazing how little pollution there is anymore, even in the dirty
USA. Guess why? Because we can afford to clean up the environment. If the
Deomicrats have their way we'll be back to burning wood in a pit.