Great article Lloyd, thanks so much. If you go to the west island today you will find Margie Zeidler and Steven Evans taking pictures of individuals with a favourite tree. I was there yesterday. Go get a portrait taken if you are in Toronto.
I don't know much about Therme Spa and I haven't investigated. However, if it will be for the public and provide a place of recreation and enjoyment than I support it, irrespective of up front carbon. I place human flourishing high on my priority list and a spa could be one of those experiences that enhances life.
As currently envisioned, the spa would significantly contribute to global warming and associated human suffering, and as such would be a negative with respect to your objectives of human flourishing and enhanced life. The spa needs to wait until it can be constructed and operated (green concrete for construction, green energy for construction and operation…) without significant greenhouse gas emissions.
Note that this is the situation with many of our human flourishing and enhanced life legacy practices developed while we were ignorant of our greenhouse gas emissions causing a global warming crisis.
Excellent! Consider promoting Heat-Waste Capture in a perpetual 365 day energy loop for all urban heating and cooling applications. 100% of Natural methane Gas usage is eliminated, electricity is conserved, while hot water, heating and cooling are provided from the locality in all weather systems. There are no grids or pipelines to fail. With the addition of building insulation, passive solar application, geothermal addition, solar and wind, Net Zero buildings are easily achievable. The company SHARC Energy Systems has proven this application in numerous international communities, at home in Vancouver BC., Toronto, Portland, Seattle, Denver, New York, Scotland. New York State has mandated that heat-waste capture be utilized in all future building heating. In Creston, BC, our entire recreational complex is heating from the swimming pool heat capture in a perpetual heating loop. Please highlight this practical, local , container-sized environmentally minimum footprint technology for heating our buildings. Fossil-fuel, overheat our planet no more.your time
Heat-Waste Capture increases system efficiency - captures and utilizes waste heat so that less energy needs to be input to the system. Heat-Waste Capture is a valued contributor to sustainability, but does not eliminate the need to input energy to the system. The system can operate perpetually only if additional energy is input to the system.
Fabulous article. Suggested correction: at the public consultation Therme consultants said the modified size is 41,000 m2.
wow that makes it twice as bad! I will get on the correction right now.
Great article Lloyd, thanks so much. If you go to the west island today you will find Margie Zeidler and Steven Evans taking pictures of individuals with a favourite tree. I was there yesterday. Go get a portrait taken if you are in Toronto.
The Therme in the Hearn could be Canada’s Tate Modern!
I don't know much about Therme Spa and I haven't investigated. However, if it will be for the public and provide a place of recreation and enjoyment than I support it, irrespective of up front carbon. I place human flourishing high on my priority list and a spa could be one of those experiences that enhances life.
Hi Joe,
As currently envisioned, the spa would significantly contribute to global warming and associated human suffering, and as such would be a negative with respect to your objectives of human flourishing and enhanced life. The spa needs to wait until it can be constructed and operated (green concrete for construction, green energy for construction and operation…) without significant greenhouse gas emissions.
Note that this is the situation with many of our human flourishing and enhanced life legacy practices developed while we were ignorant of our greenhouse gas emissions causing a global warming crisis.
Don
Excellent! Consider promoting Heat-Waste Capture in a perpetual 365 day energy loop for all urban heating and cooling applications. 100% of Natural methane Gas usage is eliminated, electricity is conserved, while hot water, heating and cooling are provided from the locality in all weather systems. There are no grids or pipelines to fail. With the addition of building insulation, passive solar application, geothermal addition, solar and wind, Net Zero buildings are easily achievable. The company SHARC Energy Systems has proven this application in numerous international communities, at home in Vancouver BC., Toronto, Portland, Seattle, Denver, New York, Scotland. New York State has mandated that heat-waste capture be utilized in all future building heating. In Creston, BC, our entire recreational complex is heating from the swimming pool heat capture in a perpetual heating loop. Please highlight this practical, local , container-sized environmentally minimum footprint technology for heating our buildings. Fossil-fuel, overheat our planet no more.your time
Hello Seeyre,
Heat-Waste Capture increases system efficiency - captures and utilizes waste heat so that less energy needs to be input to the system. Heat-Waste Capture is a valued contributor to sustainability, but does not eliminate the need to input energy to the system. The system can operate perpetually only if additional energy is input to the system.
Don