This lovely woman came today to fill up our heating oil tank. We had to pay her, and a lot, with the current high prices of oil. As I wrote before we have a very old furnace to heat the house and use (waste) a lot of oil to also heat the Great White North. But since we pay for the oil, and the landlord pays for the furnace she doesn’t have any incentive to replace it with a more modern and energy efficient one. Fortunately it’s not a very cold winter so far.
It’s stupid to heat with oil at all, because Montréal is located on a very hot spot and we could easily install a geothermal installation. That consists basically of a pump that pumps water into a deep drilled hole in our backyard and when the water is heated up by the hot earth below it uses that hot water for heating the rooms. The installation cost could be recouped in only fifteen years and after that we would heat for free. And we would also not emit any greenhouse gasses and wouldn’t have to rely on oil. But because we rent that is not an option right now. However it’s strange that the Canadian or Québec government doesn’t actively promote and subsidizes this technology. Oh wait, it’s competition for Hydro Québec!
Feb 13 2006
Oil
This lovely woman came today to fill up our heating oil tank. We had to pay her, and a lot, with the current high prices of oil. As I wrote before we have a very old furnace to heat the house and use (waste) a lot of oil to also heat the Great White North. But since we pay for the oil, and the landlord pays for the furnace she doesn’t have any incentive to replace it with a more modern and energy efficient one. Fortunately it’s not a very cold winter so far.
It’s stupid to heat with oil at all, because Montréal is located on a very hot spot and we could easily install a geothermal installation. That consists basically of a pump that pumps water into a deep drilled hole in our backyard and when the water is heated up by the hot earth below it uses that hot water for heating the rooms. The installation cost could be recouped in only fifteen years and after that we would heat for free. And we would also not emit any greenhouse gasses and wouldn’t have to rely on oil. But because we rent that is not an option right now. However it’s strange that the Canadian or Québec government doesn’t actively promote and subsidizes this technology. Oh wait, it’s competition for Hydro Québec!
By mare • english •