So you want to be the sustainability kings? Then don’t scream how wonderful you are while cooling your buildings from the public water supply and stop busting massive numbers of mercury filled fluorescent bulbs in your dumpsters. Have some concern for your neighbours and the local community. That shit leaks out. Or are you just bean counters and don’t have the mental capacity to comprehend the science of your statements? —De Gassed Ones
This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2011.
“Then don’t scream how wonderful you are while cooling your buildings from the public water supply “
If this is about purdy’s… I don’t think that’s any water you want to be drinking anyways…
Didn’t you know OP, the prime motiviation about being “Green” is how much CO2 you can expend bragging about being “Green”. Sort of like wearing a niquab to show off how modest you are.
Most home improvement stores have drop-offs for your old CFL bulbs. Failing that, at least put your useless ones in a small baggie before tossing them in the trash.
yep, you got it right off the bat.
Are you talking about the buildings at Purdy’s Wharf that use sea water run through titanium heat exchangers to provide cooling for ten months of the year?
Considering the state of the harbour ecosystem, the marginal increase in harbour water temperature from the Purdy’s Wharf cooling system effluent doesn’t have much, if any, negative impact. It’s actually a great idea.
But you’re right about the florescent bulbs. They shouldn’t be going into the regular waste stream and ending up in landfills, which impacts public drinking water supplies in ways that a little heated water going back into Halifax harbour never will.
i cleaned those fucking collectors when i was working there, and let me tell you, it wasn’t a fucking picnic.that water is real cold that you have to wash them down with, and you get soaked, either though you got a rubber rainsuit on. and we won’t even go there about how fucking hot you get in it.
OP, I guess you think unbroken bulbs don’t break in the garbage trucks? Or the landfill sites?
I think that this thread is about Dalhousie University and their Sustainibility degree program. I heard that the program funded to have light bulbs put in all the coridoors where daylighting was prevalent and there had previously been no bulbs. So electrical use prior was zero kW and now it is much much higher. These people will educate us to save the world for sure.
So does Dalhousie use the public water supply to cool all the university buildings then? That does not seem so smart. No wonder the University is going bankrupt or maybe it is all the 6 figure salaries the professors get? Live by the sword…
LEP, I noticed that too — there’s that long hall from the LSC with plate glass windows all along one side that doesn’t really need any lighting. But now there’s fixtures up the entire length and they’re on during the day for some reason.