Fw: LP Gas Website
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From: "Tom Glendinning" <goa...@embarqmail.com>
Subject: LP Gas Website
This website provides many points of information on liquid propane gas, its uses, alternatives, comparisons to other sources of heating and fuel. as well as dealer and product information for home and business. It is impressive. There is an interactive map with info on home heating by regions of the US. Very useful site.
http://www.buildwithpropane.com/
Home heating - dual source units (gas heat/electric AC)
Tankless hot water heaters
Heating and power supply units
Standard appliances
Financial incentives for builders
Electricity generation
Efficiency ratings and comparisons to air source heat pumps
Comparisons of carbon footprint and emissions
Further, it will link product and service inquiries to suppliers and vendors in the area with a query form (voluntary).
Since we will have LP gas available in the future, a little research may yield good results for energy costs. If we do not, as many vocal people suggest, this source is still useful regardless.
Tom Glendinning
Bert Bowe
Thanks Tom. I agree this is a useful
website, and would personally choose propane over gasoline
or oil for heating, running a vehicle, etc. Using
it is better for the environment.
And I think that's the issue - the way we
obtain natural gas and its effects on the environment
is the issue, not that it doesn't have many good uses.
The text excerpt below is from the http://www.buildwithpropane.com/
link Tom sent and makes a good point about how much
contamination spilling just one gallon of gasoline can
create. Take that point and fast forward to the
potentially hundreds of chemicals fracking explosively
injects into the ground. At the industry estimate of 0.5%
chemicals-to-water, this equals over 40,000 pounds of
chemicals per million gallons of water - with each well
taking several million gallons.
This link lists the chemicals and their
properties (the ones that are identified), many of them
toxic. Click on the bottom Excel spreadsheet tabs to see
each description
http://www.tedx.org/chemicals.multistate.php
The industry claims the fracking fluid
never gets to well water, but there are many cases in
fracking states where this is not true - not to mention
surface water contamination once a lot of fracking water is
extracted. Here's a very recent preliminary EPA report
about their study of Wyoming homes with contaminated water:
http://www.propublica.org/article/epa-finds-fracking-compound-in-wyoming-aquifer
Bottom line: if fracking was demonstrated
to be environmentally safe, there would be a lot fewer folks
very worried about it coming to Chatham.
Bert
http://www.buildwithpropane.com/Propane Is Green Energy
Measured by carbon footprint, propane is one of the greenest energy sources available.
Studies from organizations including the Environmental Protection Agency reveal that propane is an attractive option for avoiding greenhouse gas emissions in nearly any application.
Propane gives off less than half as many greenhouse gas emissions as using an equivalent amount of electricity generated from the U.S. grid. It is a low-carbon alternative fuel that produces significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions than diesel and gasoline in a wide range of applications. In contrast to nontoxic propane, as little as one gallon of spilled gasoline can quickly contaminate groundwater above drinking water health advisory levels.
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