EPA targets families that generate heat off the grid using traditional

[MorelCabin]

Actually hydro is the worst polutant, from what I have read...not when it finally gets to your house, the the process of making it sure does.

Um, excuse me?

Got any links?

I used to live in BC, where around 90% of the power is hydro, and considered very green.

Well, for one thing, it still takes coal, oil, or gas to make hydro...

Unless you are using water (dams, waterfalls, etc) in which case many fish are effected, spawning is greatly affected, salmon are killed, wildlife habitat around the area is affected, and in many cases it changes the water quality of the streams used. You can google all that. So hydro is still much more dirty than wood will ever be, IMHO Trees are renewable...and when heating by wood we get used to a cooler home, don't take advantage of it so much by simply turning up a thermometer, we tend to conserve a little more when we have to do all the work ourselves, for one thing

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381

As for it being considered green in BC...
http://www.cec.org/Storage/83/7858_ACF756.pdf

Wanna see how much coal it takes to power a lightbulb? THis is where you will find out how really green your hydro is
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/question481.htm

 

[~gd]

Actually hydro is the worst polutant, from what I have read...not when it finally gets to your house, the the process of making it sure does.

Um, excuse me?

Got any links?

I used to live in BC, where around 90% of the power is hydro, and considered very green.

Well, for one thing, it still takes coal, oil, or gas to make hydro...

Unless you are using water (dams, waterfalls, etc) in which case many fish are effected, spawning is greatly affected, salmon are killed, wildlife habitat around the area is affected, and in many cases it changes the water quality of the streams used. You can google all that. So hydro is still much more dirty than wood will ever be, IMHO Trees are renewable...and when heating by wood we get used to a cooler home, don't take advantage of it so much by simply turning up a thermometer, we tend to conserve a little more when we have to do all the work ourselves, for one thing

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381

As for it being considered green in BC...
http://www.cec.org/Storage/83/7858_ACF756.pdf

Wanna see how much coal it takes to power a lightbulb? THis is where you will find out how really green your hydro is
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/question481.htm

It appears that you are confusing "hydro" with either hydrogen as a fuel, or with a supplier of of electrical power [going by your links] I think most of us are talking about hydro as method of generating power using water to turn a turbine or even an old fashioned waterwheel. It produces no polution of any kind. It might effect the fishing in BC but I would like to see the fish that could jump up niagra falls, a natural feature which is used to produce cheap hydro power for western NY and in Canada. It helps sometimes to define what you are posting about.~gd