Fossil fuels / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...fossil fuel. To reduce GHGs and meet environmental targets, fossil fuels must be eliminated from central heating systems. So how can we address the peak consumption problem and reduce our electricity bills? By reducing our overall energy consumption and switching to more efficient heating systems that manage heat produ...

...fuels, then moving on to the various forms of renewable energy, each of which has a negative footprint of some kind. As an example - solar panels need to be fabricated using metal, plastics and certain rare earth metals that are in dwindling supply. Windmills have a similar footprint as they are made mostly of steel, a...

...fossil fuels. At current market prices there is an argument that can be made that heating with gas is more affordable, but not for much longer as heating with natural gas is being phased out of new home construction. There is no way to determine the cost of heating with fossil fuels in to the future, or how reliable th...