Lets do a poll. Best heat source for your house. 4 choices.

[SASKFARMER]

What would every one of you figure is the most environmentally friendly heating source for your home.

1. Wood. Ah, the smell, the heat, the warmth. Yes, the tree falls in the woods and is cut up and burnt and a new tree grows to replace it. Ah, the circle of life.

2. Natural Gas. Clean efficient warmth and never in shortage for supply plus cheap. It is actually an environmentally friendly way to heat as before the gas was burnt off now it has a use. The best bet for your money and oh so nice on -50 days.

3. Electric heat, you buy a blanket and hope tomorrow is a warmer day. You hate to open your electric bill because it's so high you may as well smoke Trudeau's legal pot and be at one with your bill. All joking aside it does heat small areas and works to keep warm.

4. Geo-Thermal. Shoot the pipe in the ground go deep enough and the ground will heat your home. Makes sense has a place but on really cold ****ing nights you need extra.

So what do each of you like, what's cheap, what do we control the cost on, remembering we live in the semi artic.

[SASKFARMER]

Natural gas is my answer. The farm became and moved into the 21st century when the gas came a trenching into the yard.

Out went the old oil burner and electric heaters and blankets and rugs pushed against the bottom of doors. . In went new insulation, siding and windows and doors. New homes were built with 2x6 and stuffed full of insulation with a vapour barrier. Windows triple-pane and doors that were insulated steel. Shops with foot thick walls with insulation and heavy doors to keep heat in.

We were the dawn of Aquarius. A new reset that actually took us out of the stone age and we were like lifted up.

[Guest]

Friction

[SASKFARMER]

Under the blankets friction or other.

[Guest]

Depends if the results of said friction is several children

[Guest]

Geo thermal. Heating in winter, cooling in summer

[bucket]

Natural gas....thank you Grant Devine for putting in the natural gas infrastructure or we would have burnt alot of it through flaring and still be burning diesel for the furnace


Although I think they make high efficiency diesel furnaces now...and electric forced air furnaces as well...

Its too bad for anyone moving to a greenfield yard site that getting the natural gas is so expensive...they choose propane...

[SASKFARMER]

Now my sled shack does have solar for lighting but its dim but does the trick. We have two of those fans that once the wood stove is heated upstart turning and blow the heat around. But I'm not sleeping out there unless too many wobbly pops but with my infection issue, that's not happening any time soon.

[Sheepwheat]

I like wood. While I’m young and able I pick wood. This will slowly shift to gas as my body wears out I suppose.

We have gas, but burn a lot of wood in the fireplace. Best of both worlds.

[SASKFARMER]

When I was younger we had a wood stove in our townhome in the basement and on those cold winter nights you would get that sucker hot then close the doors and let it slowly burn inside the stove all night till all was out in the morning. The great heat source and oh so toasty warm.

[jazz]

Geothermal requires an electric pump to keep the fluid flowing constantly. That can add up to a nasty electric bill. Trust me I know. Have it in my city home and now its shut off.

Nat gas is superior in all forms. Fast, efficient heating and storage in the pipes in case the power goes down. A city can run on line pack only possibly for a few hrs. Cant do that with electric or geothermal.

[Guest]

When I was younger we had a wood stove in our townhome in the basement and on those cold winter nights you would get that sucker hot then close the doors and let it slowly burn inside the stove all night till all was out in the morning. The great heat source and oh so toasty warm.

I was seven years old before I realized my name wasn't getwood

[Old Cowzilla]

wood pellet heat all the warmth and no fuss or mess. Keep solar powered fencers in basement in winter so batteries don't freeze. heh heh!

[SASKFARMER]

One year three farms ordered a whole semi-truck of Birch. It arrived we divided it up and then stacked but wow it was like natural gas a new beginning compared to poplar that burnt so fast.

How much simpler life was when it was life or death.

Didn't get the wood woke up frozen and an ass whipping.

[Old Cowzilla]

After school job filling coal hopper on furnace then cleaning klingkers ? out of furnace and taking outside. PLASTIC 5 gallon pail not a option .