Trying to figure out whether local produce is more environmentally sound than stuff brought in from hundreds or thousands of miles away?
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David Reevely
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John Ogilvie // December 11, 2007 at 9:26 pm |
This reminds me of the point a voter made to me when I was campaigning: flourescent light bulbs do waste 80% of their energy as heat compared to incandescents, but in Canada, for most of the year, that heat is USEFUL in a house
Actually, having typed that, I think I see the fallacy, since electricity is an inefficient way to generate heat..
These eco-calculations are not simple, and we have to avoid black-vs-white arguments.
David Reevely // December 11, 2007 at 9:32 pm |
You’re right about the inefficiency, of course, plus there’s the part of the year when the heat is a giant pain in the arse and chances are you have another electrical cooling device battling it out with your incandescents to try to keep the place comfortable.