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Don’t get me wrong, sports courts and ice rinks are all important threads in a community’s fabric, but they cost money to operate and require maintenance and replacement as they depreciate over time. The LED lights and solar system installed at the Evansdale Community League in Edmonton are different. The lights will save 65 per cent on electricity costs for the rink and the solar system will pay a dividend every single month for the next quarter century.
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Geothermal energy isn’t just about Iceland, volcanoes, lava and journeys to the centre of the earth. The vast majority of geothermal projects aren’t about tapping the fiery, red-hot core of the earth, but taking advantage of the relatively constant temperature of the ground below the frost line. The ground beneath our feet is as constant as death or taxes; it’s almost always between four to six degrees Celsius. It isn’t sexy, but
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Author: Cormac Reynolds As energy bills have seen a relative plateauing out, too much fanfare within the media, many consumers are understandably feeling underwhelmed at the limited savings that are on offer. After all, 5% discounts are hardly a speck upon the unprecedented price increases for gas and electricity over the past decade and unsurprisingly many have looked increasingly toward renewable energy, and traditional energy
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Episode 107 - Original Story: https://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/geothermal-201 By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The Mosaic Centre is Canada's largest commercial net-zero building. It's located in south Edmonton and has a geothermal system combined with 213 kilowatts of solar PV. Photo by David Dodge, Green Energy Futures. There is something calm and comforting about getting energy from the warmth of the earth. Perhaps this explains
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The center of the earth is HOT, very hot! In fact so hot that the center of the earth is molten lava. The heat of the molten lava dissipates as it gets nearer the earth’s surface, which is why ground under our feet feels cool. In the sixteenth century as mining became more common, man realized that the further down you went, the more heat there was in the earth around them. As scientists studied the reason steam rose from water in cold weather
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