[Greenbuilding] No Fracking Way?

[Nick Pyner]

This all depends on

1. How your electricity is produced now

2. When you think it will be feasible to be all-electric and still off the
grid.

Gas may still be more environmentally kosher than electricity, and using
home-grown electricity for heating sounds appalling. You would probably be
better off using a natural-gas powered IC engine to supply your electricity
and use the waste heat off that for whatever else.



Nick Pyner

Dee Why   NSW

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[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org]On Behalf Of Frank
Cetera

  Subject: [Greenbuilding] No Fracking Way?


  I'd be interested in hearing folks' opinions and strategies surrounding
the following goal:

  Implementing an urban home retrofit using only electrical powered systems,
with the potential of becoming an off-grid site in the future through
reduced energy consumption and on-site generation (with purchase of
alternative sources in the short-term), in order to relieve our dependance
on natural gas as a fuel source due to its potential for high environmental
damage.
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