Bans on fossil fuel heating in new homes gain steam

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Bans on fossil fuel heating in new homes gain steam as world aims for net-zero emissions

Vancouver and Quebec recently banned certain kinds of fossil fuel-based heating in new home construction. Similar — and, in some cases more extensive — bans are happening around the world, from Norway to New York City. The goal? To cut CO2 emissions from buildings by replacing fossil fuel burning with electric heating. But are such bans necessary? And what impact will they have on people who live in those cities? Here's a closer look.

 
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harrylee said:
Better improve that electric grid pretty quickly.
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Hell, better get better generating tech on-line. Here's Ontario's output and demand as of 12 noon today. Current demand is just over 18,000MW. Gas is supplying 3325MW while wind is eking out a paltry 334MW and solar a whopping 100MW. It is currently -6C.
Wind capacity in Ontario is about 4500MW and we can't even get 10% of that capacity on a chilly day. Yesterday wind was putting out about the same power as today only it was a lot colder.
Getting rid of natgas in an arctic country the size of Canada when you have NOTHING to replace it with is about as brilliant is slitting your own throat because you're hungry. And I say 'nothing to replace it with' because the envirotards also shit their panties over nuclear power.

It's fucking amazing, and depressing, just how much mileage the enviro-tards are getting from a fake 97% consensus. And yet whine about fake news and false information. What a bunch of fucking half-witted troglodytes.
 
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Well, buffalo chips burn. I guess horse-apples would.

Too bad y'all slaughtered all the buffalo and reduced the horse population by upwards of 90%.

Don't pay me no mind. I'm just amused that the greenies used the standard coal-fired metaphor for gaining momentum.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Well, buffalo chips burn. I guess horse-apples would.

Too bad y'all slaughtered all the buffalo and reduced the horse population by upwards of 90%.

Don't pay me no mind. I'm just amused that the greenies used the standard coal-fired metaphor for gaining momentum.
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You know Canada is working hard on repopulation of Buffalo/Bison


My Cousin lives in Fort Smith, NWT and works for the parks
 
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Bans on fossil fuel heating in new homes gain steam as world aims for net-zero emissions

Vancouver and Quebec recently banned certain kinds of fossil fuel-based heating in new home construction. Similar — and, in some cases more extensive — bans are happening around the world, from Norway to New York City. The goal? To cut CO2 emissions from buildings by replacing fossil fuel burning with electric heating. But are such bans necessary? And what impact will they have on people who live in those cities? Here's a closer look.

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What a stupid and expensive idea!! OMG seriously!!
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Well, buffalo chips burn. I guess horse-apples would.

Too bad y'all slaughtered all the buffalo and reduced the horse population by upwards of 90%.
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Um, we all? While Yankees were slaughtering buffalo with wild abandon, settlers in the Canadian prairies revered the buffalo for its poop. The shit made for great fertilizer.
And horses aren't native to the Americas anyway. Well not quite, they ancestor of the modern horse in NA was wiped about 10,000 years ago. Pretty sure it wasn't "us people" who did it.
 
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Jinentonix said:
Um, we all? While Yankees were slaughtering buffalo with wild abandon, settlers in the Canadian prairies revered the buffalo for its poop. The shit made for great fertilizer.
And horses aren't native to the Americas anyway. Well not quite, they ancestor of the modern horse in NA was wiped about 10,000 years ago. Pretty sure it wasn't "us people" who did it.
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Neither are pigs. That never stopped y'all.

For that matter, neither are Europeans (it's kinda in the name).

Though I'll freely admit your point. The Brits and French who became the Canadians, and the Canadians, were better to the Natives than any of the other murderous pirates who washed up on these shores. I've said that before.
 
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Bans on fossil fuel heating in new homes gain steam as world aims for net-zero emissions

Vancouver and Quebec recently banned certain kinds of fossil fuel-based heating in new home construction. Similar — and, in some cases more extensive — bans are happening around the world, from Norway to New York City. The goal? To cut CO2 emissions from buildings by replacing fossil fuel burning with electric heating. But are such bans necessary? And what impact will they have on people who live in those cities? Here's a closer look.

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Easy for BC and Quebec to encourage Hydro electric use, their primary source is hydro. Kinda difficult for other provinces unless they get into a massive nuclear plant building program right now.
 
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