But even with a debarker someone owns that mill they were made at and employed workers. But I see what your saying. It's good that you have multi fuel options. For heat I have wood or HVAC electric heatpump with heat strip auxillary. In the cold of the winter my uninsulated house looses heat after than the HP can put it back in and when it's like 28 or colder the strips will constantly kick in. At like 15 it would run non stop all night. Power is not that cheap where I live. It's about $0.14/kWH. It adds up. So I burn wood.
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I know what you are saying too. I just look at it as a side product from a big sawmill or something. Where I live there is Robbins Lumber, 100+ years in existence and saws 130,000 bf per day, but they make these stupid little clothes drying racks. Why? I have no idea, but they do. I never really looked into heat pumps. I do have radiant heat and geothermal, which in Maine makes more sense I think. Our electric rates are the highest in the country at 17 cents!! Yikes. It shot up when they went to deregulated power...there is a lot more to that story though with the Maine Attorney general getting involved and everything. Mainer's got it good, but I digress. My house though is SUPER insulated, but this is Maine where -20 degrees (f) is not uncommon. I could have gone with passive heat as some have here, but instead I went with less glass and super insulated spaces. Both get a person warm, just in different ways. There is one bad thing with my system though, it is so high tech that I cannot find anyone who can work on it. Last year when I tied another system into it I ended up learning it myself because no one understood it.
Here is the long story on why our power is so high. A few years ago we could have switched from the New England Power Grid to the New Brunswick Power Grid. They had just revamped their nuclear power plant just on the other side of the border from us and wanted to ensure they sold some of its power to steady customers. The issue is, Maine already has plenty of power with our many boilers, biomass, gas boilers and hydro dams, but that power is valuable to NYC, Boston, Providence and Hartford. Our biggest export is actually electricity in dollar value, but when something is more valuable to something else, the price jumps. Well the Public Utilities Commission, which is made up of only 3 people had the say in the matter and voted the switch to new Brunswick down. Then 2 weeks later the guy on the PUC quits and joins a Windmill Company as CEO. Something looks fishy so the Attorney General's office gets involved because it looks like there was some conflict of interest there. But suddenly that gets dropped too. Come to find out, our infamous Senator used to be on the Board of Directors but had to drop out when he ran for Senator (conflict of interest), so he set up his son...and you guessed it...was the former PUC guy the Attorney General was going to go after. But it gets worse; guess which Senator cast one of the deciding votes against the Keystone Pipeline that would have made it tough for renewable power to compete with conventional power generation? Yep, same Maine Senator. So in the end Mainer's pay 17 cents a KW when we could be paying only 8 cents. The worst thing is, 90% of Mainer's do not even know anything about this. But we do have one thing in common with our power Clemsonfor; when you follow our power companies to the final source, they are both owned by the same Spanish Power Company. In fact they own ALL the power companies on the East Coast. I guess American's will never learn that some things are just not for sale!
