This weekend while the AFS students were visiting Evanville, I had a chance to chat with Alex from Finland about energy. I had just showed him our new wood pellet stove and upon pausing in my story of independence through wood pellets, I asked him what they did in Finland. He just replied, "Community Heating."
If you click on the post you will see a nice article on CHP, community heating program, which Finland leads the world in. Finland is a country with NO resources in natural gas. Yet, by using waste generation and a combination of other sources, they have achieved very low costs in energy production compared with the rest of us.
The energy crisis is a story. Is it bad or good? It may feel real bad right now, but if we are motivated to change if just might be good. Maybe waste generation and wind power would work for us if we could get units of government to work together on it. Finland has a lower rate for nightime electric consumption to encourage zone heating. Why do we have the same rate for day and night with our electric utility?
I still like the idea of the "Cow Power cooperative," using the power of manure to improve lives. Kinda catchy.
Click on the post for the full story from Finland.
You make the call.
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