[unclebilly]

Ok Les - thanks for setting me straight on this. Sorry to offend - Dennis’ timing for this thread is a bit suspect.

To be clear, in Alberta, even balmy southern Alberta, a heat pump is useless for 1/4 of the year. We can use them for heating in the spring and fall and AC in the summer but in the depths of winter, we need to burn hydrocarbons to keep warm… even electric heat here is made by burning natural gas and is extremely expensive…

I’m not uncertain that your heat pumps are running on electrons moved by burning hydrocarbons (or are you running on hydropower from ‘La Belle Province’) and if you consider the conversion and transmission efficiency, it may well be more ‘carbon neutral’ to just heat using hydrocarbons such as clean burning propane or heating oil or dare I suggest natural gas.

Also nobody here is beating any drum about letting anyone freeze, eastern Canadians or not. Not a soul has that mantra.