smithy wrote:I like the natural recuperation Pierre speaking of the earth I was wondering just the other day when an acquaintance told me how there carbon impact was diminished by an all electric house "connected to the grid of course" what is the impact of building and maintaining the infrastructure least the inefficiency of pushing the power down the line ! My calculation is 27000 lb of coal for electric heat vs 5600 lb of coal for my base-heater . this may have been discussed before but my two-bits worth anyhow.
you have done verry well with your irons my friend, restored beauty !
One other thing that ""bother""me a little about electric ""clean"" solution is all the transfos along the streets, I will see how many there are just in my little street. In the past they were containing some bad oil, but now I just don't know what is in them but are all old transfos out of the work? What did they do with that contaminated oil?
Producing electric power make pollution from the beginning to the end users but not many want to hear about that.