Hydro bills soar way more than 20% due to climate change
Ontarians are finding out they may not be able to handle the august hydro bills , often double or triple the normal amount, not due to just the 20% fee hike and debt repayment, but due to the increased usage of kW-h due to extremely hot and humid weather and air conditioning. My personal bill went up from $80 to $324 then this month to $614, some people on fixed incomes will definately not be able to handle this kind of rise, and might be forced out of their homes onto the street or to apartments, or out of apartments to the street or tent cities like in Victoria (covered on CBC radio news recently).
These people need help to stay where they live.
Most of this change is due to climate change and CO2 in the atmosphere and fossil fuel usage.
http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/atmosphere-energy/climate-cha...
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My August electricity bill was about the same...
My reply isn't about climate change. At ~ 20 cents per kw/h, I am guessing that you were running at about 100kw/h per day! I don't even know how that's possible.
Although August was a bit hotter than usual, I found that I ran my A/C maybe only a few days in August through judicious use of blinds and windows. That saved my pocketbook as well as CO2.
It is not clear that there is anything we can do in the short term to reduce hot weather in August, so you might want to plan ahead for next year (ie, maybe get a heatpump, or install IR reflective film on your windows.)
Where do you think that CO2 comes from? Electricity generation generates a lot of CO2 even if you derive it from photocells (which at the moment still have high CO2 manufacturing outputs.)
The majority of the CO2 about
The majority of the CO2 about 60-65% comes from worldwide electricity generation in the form of coal burning. Most of these plants don't even have scrubbers, so that means not only carbonic acid for the ocean, but nitric acid and sulphuric acid as well.
Without constraints it is unlikely that anything of any value will ensue
Math is necessary to fully understand reality.... but it is not sufficient! pick up a 250000 word dictionary preferably oxford, and learn context and generatio
The reality of what CO2 is about
Well, I'm not sure what your comment is regarding picking up a dictionary, but anyway, if you want to reduce coal burning, especially unscrubbed exhaust, then you have to be prepared to place tarriffs on products originating from offending jurisdictions.
Either we accept that we as individuals do what we can, or we step up and tell the world that the stories of how we ended up where we are do not grant people the right to pollute until they are just as bad as the west.
So, who are suggesting should be constraining whom? And how would that be done exactly? Whatever we've been doing so far doesn't really seem to be working.