Comments - Paul LePage files for historic Blaine House return bid against Janet Mills in 2022 - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T05:29:21Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A220113&xn_auth=no“Sen. Chris Bray, D-Addison,…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-07-06:4401701:Comment:2203242021-07-06T12:40:12.568ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>“Sen. Chris Bray, D-Addison, who chairs the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, said he wants to make sure homeowners have access to weatherization efforts, modifying buildings to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy efficiency. See VTDigger article.…</p>
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<p>“Sen. Chris Bray, D-Addison, who chairs the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, said he wants to make sure homeowners have access to weatherization efforts, modifying buildings to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy efficiency. See VTDigger article.</p>
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<p>BUILDINGS</p>
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<p>The standard “weatherizing”, at about $10,000 each, as practiced by Vermont, is totally inadequate for Vermont’s energy hog houses.<br/>It is next to useless to make those houses suitable for heat pumps.</p>
<p>The only way to come anywhere near any CO2 goals, is to build EACH YEAR several thousand net-zero-energy houses and apartments, and energy-surplus houses and apartments.</p>
<p>All of them would need solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps, and large hot water storage tanks.</p>
<p>The energy surplus houses/apartments would have extra solar panels and extra batteries to power EVs.</p>
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<p>GAS GUZZLER TAX</p>
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<p>As you know, EAN has grossly overestimated the CO2 reduction of an EV, (about 4.5 metric ton/y/EV), because of incorrect assumptions.<br/>The actual reduction is much less.</p>
<p>Vermont needs a gas-guzzler code to impose a fee on low-mileage vehicles.<br/>The more below 40-mpg, the greater would be the fee.<br/>Vehicles with greater than 40-mpg, such as the 54-mpg Toyota Prius, would be exempt.</p>
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<p>EVs</p>
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<p>RE folks would have everyone drive unaffordable EVs, that would not reduce much CO2 compared with EFFICIENT gasoline vehicles.</p>
<p>On a lifetime, A-to-Z basis, with travel at 105,600 miles over 10 years, the CO2 emissions, based on the present New England grid CO2/kWh, would be:</p>
<p>NISSAN Leaf S Plus, EV, compact SUV, no AWD, would emit 25.967 Mt, 246 g/mile; about a FIFTY PERCENT REDUCTION compared to the present VT LDV mix, which includes larger vehicles than the Nissan Leaf.</p>
<p>TOYOTA Prius L Eco, 62 mpg, compact car, no AWD, would emit 26.490 Mt, 251 g/mile<br/>SUBARU Outback, 30 mpg, medium SUV, with AWD, would emit 43.015 Mt, 407 g/mile<br/>VT LDV mix, 22.7 mpg, many with AWD or 4WD, would emit 56.315 Mt, 533 g/mile</p>
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<p>HEAT PUMPS</p>
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<p>Heat Pumps are Money Losers in my Vermont House (as they are in almost all Vermont houses)</p>
<p>My annual electricity consumption increased about 50% (the various taxes, fees, and surcharges also increased), after I installed three Mitsubishi, 24,000 Btu/h heat pumps, each with 2 heads; 2 in the living room, 1 in the kitchen, and 1 in each of 3 bedrooms.<br/>The heat pumps last about 15 years.</p>
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<p>They are used for heating and cooling my 35-y-old, well-sealed/well-insulated house. It has 2” of blueboard (R-10 vs R-0.67 for 8” concrete) on the outside of the concrete foundation and under the basement slab which has saved me many thousands of heating dollars over the 35 years.</p>
<p>Before heat pumps, my space-heating propane was 1000 gal/y, after heat pumps, it was 830 gal/y, a reduction of 170 gal/y, or $310/y, at $2.399/gal. Additional electricity costs were $609/y. I am losing money<br/>Domestic hot water, DHW, heating, requires about 200 gallon/y</p>
<p>My existing Viessmann propane system, 95%-efficient in condensing mode, is used on cold days, 15F or less, because heat pumps have low efficiencies, i.e., low Btu/kWh, at exactly the same time my house would need the most heat; a perverse situation, due to the laws of Physics 101!!</p>
<p>The heat pumps would be slightly more efficient than electric resistance heaters at -10F, the Vermont HVAC design temperature. It would be extremely irrational to operate air source heat pumps, at such temperatures.</p>
<p>I have had no energy cost savings, because of high household electric rates, augmented with taxes, fees and surcharges. Vermont forcing, with subsidies, the addition of expensive RE electricity to the mix, would make matters worse!!</p>
<p>Amortizing the $24,000 turnkey capital cost at 3.5%/y for 15 years costs about $2,059/y; I am losing money.</p>
<p>There likely will be service calls and parts for the heat pumps, as the years go by, in addition to annual service calls and parts for the existing propane system; I am losing more money.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.myamortizationchart.com/">https://www.myamortizationchart.com</a></p>
<p>NOTE:<br/>If I had a highly sealed, highly insulated house, with the same efficient propane heating system, my house would use very little energy for heating.<br/>If I would install heat pumps* and would operate the propane system on only the coldest days, I likely would have energy cost savings.<br/>However, those annual energy cost savings would be overwhelmed by the annual amortizing cost, i.e., I would still be losing money, if amortizing were considered.</p>
<p>* I likely would need 3 units at 18,000 Btu/h, at a lesser turnkey capital cost. Their output, very-inefficiently produced, would be about 27,000 Btu/h at -10F, the Vermont HVAC design temperature.</p>
<p>NOTE: VT-Department of Public Service found, after a survey of 77 heat pumps installed in Vermont houses (turnkey cost for a one-head HP system is about $4,500), the annual energy cost savings were, on average, $200, but the annual amortizing costs turned that gain into a loss of $200, i.e., on average, these houses were unsuitable for heat pumps, and the owners were losing money.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/cost-savings-of-air-source-heat-pumps-are-negative-in-vermont">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/cost-savings-of-air-sou...</a></p> Welcome back Paul LePage. Fir…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-07-03:4401701:Comment:2202292021-07-03T15:35:39.757ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Welcome back Paul LePage. <br></br>First task will be to stop all the government program idiocies.</p>
<p>Let Maine be Maine again.</p>
<p>Janet Mills is incompetent. She does not even belong in government.</p>
<p>She should get a private sector job to get some REAL-WORLD experience </p>
<p>She has been a huge disappointment, because she is a mouthpiece-captive of RE fanatics, who have ZERO business sense and common sense.</p>
<p>Maine could disappear, and it would not make one iota of…</p>
<p>Welcome back Paul LePage. <br/>First task will be to stop all the government program idiocies.</p>
<p>Let Maine be Maine again.</p>
<p>Janet Mills is incompetent. She does not even belong in government.</p>
<p>She should get a private sector job to get some REAL-WORLD experience </p>
<p>She has been a huge disappointment, because she is a mouthpiece-captive of RE fanatics, who have ZERO business sense and common sense.</p>
<p>Maine could disappear, and it would not make one iota of difference regarding the changing climate, which has ALWAYS been changing.</p> Cloudy and cool here with dri…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-07-01:4401701:Comment:2200292021-07-01T22:55:42.423ZPenny Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PennyGray
<p>Cloudy and cool here with drizzle off and on all day, but I think I just caught a glimpse of blue sky and sunshine!</p>
<p>Cloudy and cool here with drizzle off and on all day, but I think I just caught a glimpse of blue sky and sunshine!</p> I am glad to have saved my "L…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-07-01:4401701:Comment:2200272021-07-01T22:26:51.195ZRobert Powershttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/RobertPowers
<p>I am glad to have saved my "LePage for Governor" Signs" 4 x 8 Plywood!</p>
<p>I am glad to have saved my "LePage for Governor" Signs" 4 x 8 Plywood!</p>