The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Posted on February 8 at 11:05 a.m.

It's nice to see somebody trying to educate people about energy. Let me clarify a couple of points:

1) Electricity is <b><u>NOT</u></b> "100 percent efficient." It's approximately 46% efficient with this efficiency loss at the generation plant, where there is PLENTY of pollution, especially in the case of coal.

The author appears to be saying that there is almost no efficiency loss once it enters your home and when used for heating, however, electricity has and continues to be much more expensive than any other fuel for heat.

UNLESS, a groundwater geothermal heat pump is used. Then the operating cost becomes very low.

Regarding coal, no matter what type of promotional ads you see, no matter how many children they use in their ads to spread their dirt... coal has been and continues to be the dirtiest method of energy in the world, or at least the dirtiest major source of energy.

Don't forget your secondary education boys and girls... carbon dioxide *IS* pollution and there is *NO* technology for carbon sequestering that is viable or close to viable.

Is this important? Any educated person will agree that we cannot be allowed to dump our waste into the lakes. We cannot all burn our garbage and used tires in our back yards, and we cannot continue to pollute the air via low efficiency vehicles or burning coal, without a charge to price out the pollution.

After all, not dealing with pollution is like patting your child on the shoulder and say "I'm polluting this air, water, and earth for you!"

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