it's less than 5 minutes after my last post, but i just read a comment made a while back that asked if those of us in the green building arena had anything to say regarding niches (i'm not sure whose post it was - there was no name attached)
anyway, bo and i attended a seminar today titled "new concepts in heating and cooling"
we discussed many systems - solar electric, solar thermal, geothermal, etc. (which is a little funny since those are sort of age old forms of temperature control)
but, one gentleman mentioned that utah is the second best (if not the best) place in north america to produce solar energy.
we do not currently take advantage of this. park city spent alot of time and$ of buying wind power -and a major shout out to those who implemented such a great renewable energy credit plan!!!! - but we neglected and still neglect the energy that we could produce locally - solar (and geothermal)
at this time, both systems are costly to implement. the investment is recovered after a number of years, but the start-up overhead is high. additionally, this city/state/country does not incentivize such responsible action.
i know that the park city historic code makes it very difficult to apply panels in old town, but i'm not certain about greater pc.
if we could get the city to promote solar (or, like in my dreams, have them install a district net) we could reduce our dirty coal consumption (93% or so of utah's energy is from coal fired plants) as a community and preserve our ski based economy.
good night all
kaitlin
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