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Article #91Re: A simple, cost-free way to cut your annual household CO2 emissions by tonnes.
From: Mr Right
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:07
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:07
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On Feb 19, 2:40 am, "hot frog" <sh...@tension.span> wrote: > Heating water certainly chews up a lot of energy, and is another area where > many people can make a big difference for little or no expense in the long > run. I've written several posts over the years on our solar hot water > system, which paid for itself in five years and has been saving us money > ever since. It has also reduced our carbon footprint by about 32 tonnes of > CO2. You must have VERY small feet. :) I do not have any problem with people being efficient and economical in areas that they genuinely believe in. However, I fear that being totally motivated by one factor (e.g. your carbon footprint, but it could be anything else) tends to make you blind to all of the other factors. Will you feel good about having a small carbon footprint if you discover that you have a huge mercury footprint, dioxin footprint, lead footprint, carcinogen footprint, radiation footprint, etc, etc. The trouble with the green energy credits, carbon credits, or whatever you want to call them, is that they CAN encourage producers into means of production that are more carbon friendly, but bad in other ways, and this "bad" is subsidized and encouraged by the "credit".
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