re: #149 karmic_inquisitor

Anyone who thinks you can’t live in comfort and have a zero carbon footprint is wrong. Between the PV field I have, the solar water heating I just installed and the remodel I did a few years back I am off grid in a San Diego area community and live just as well as any of the ball players who live nearby. I also have reduced the electrical consumption of the two restaurants I took over by 30% through some fairly “low hanging fruit” changes and investments that will pay for themselves in about 18 months.

And for people in colder climates, go geothermal. It is basically a heat pump that uses a more stable ground temperature instead ambient air temperature for heat exchange.

There is plenty of low hanging fruit out there (including nuclear power - which is safe in France but somehow isn’t here: do the French have smarter engineers?), but transportation still accounts for something like %40 of US GHG emissions IIRC.

Just curious…what was the outlay in $$ for the PV field you put in…and size of your house?

GG