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A geothermal system is a heat pump... that can heat or cool. Thinking of the cooling side might be simpler. The air conditioner compresses the refrigerant inside its tubes and the refrigerant becomes really hot. This is cooled off by blowing air through the coils that have the hot liquid in them.... Then this "cooled off" compressed liquid is "evaporated" and becomes cold... Air from your house is cooled down when it warms up these cold coils.... Anyways, if you ever felt the outside of a window air conditioner... those outside coils are hot (and the inside ones are cold)... Well, with a geothermal airconditioner, cool water from under the ground cools off these "hot" outside coils.... making the air conditioner much more efficient.... In the heating application, the thing is reversed... It's like you put the window air conditioner in backwards.... and the water from underground heats up the cold side.... did that make any sense...????

Mark Emery... the leader of the BC Marijuana Party... I don't imagine they'll let him out for the upcoming election.....

If there's no fiscal reward, why would they bother to do anything... It seems to be the attitude towards energy policy, environment, health care, indigenous Canadians, etc...

Layton's demands were clear. It was in the newspapers, and you could find out more by visiting the NDP Website. The NDP is not trying to remove the "private health care" that is already in place, but rather, arrest the spread of the cancer. So if you want the answers to your questions without "talk"... then "CLICK".

The government would have to be interested first... Of these, the big one for energy savings has to be geothermal. A geothermal heating/cooling system is typically 400% efficient... That is, for every Watt of power you pump into it, you get 4 Watts of heat transfer.... Currently, there are only about 900 geo-thermal units installed in Canada.... They're fairly pricy because you have to bury quite a lot of heat transfer tubes, way down... so installation cost is a big factor....

The catch words in your statement is "fixing what's broken". You're right, the Liberals solution to fixing any problem is to throw money at the problem. Billions gone into Healthcare-no fix,billions gone into Aboriginal problems-no fix,Billions into gun registry-no fix on crime,and on ond on it goes. There is no Plan from these guys to tackle the problems,only throwing cash at the problems to extend it into the future. The trouble with Jack is that's all he's good at doing and that's "talking about fixing the broken things". How is he going to fix public healthcare when more than 25% of the population(Quebec and BC) already has private healthcare? He wants private healthcare removed from the provinces that presently have it. How does he plan to do that,what are the consequences of trying to force provinces to stop private healthcare? What is his "plan"? For one, keeping public healthcare public will reduce its costs, and that is the big committment that the Martin Liberals wouldn't make, the one that cost them the NDP's support. There is no question that a publicly delivered system is cheaper than a privately administered one.... You are right that just "throwing money at healthcare" won't fix anything. Here in Ontario, Mike Harris did just that when the public realized how much he stripped from our healtcare system. Within a year, the Harris government could boast that they spent more on health care than any previous Ontario government. But what we needed was doctors and nurses, not building contracts to erect and tear down buildings.... If they had spent the money on doctors and nurses so that our emergency rooms were staffed, and that our children could see a doctor within an hour of arriving at the emergency ward, it would have been better spent. The other big NDP demand on the Martin Liberals is that as a condition of delivery the previously announced increased health-care funding, that the provinces be accountable for the monies that are delivered for health care... and that the money is spent according to the Canada Health Act.... If these demands were adhered to, with no further funding, we would end up with a better, more efficient health care system... than what we're going to get if these conditions aren't heeded...

Excellent post. Here in Ontario, our provincial government had the choice of refurbushing some old, unreliable nuclear reactors (for billions of dollars), or spend the same amount of money on a wind-energy project that could generate double the power that the reactors could.... I probably don't need to tell you which option they went for... But you know, politicians like to support existing businesses, especially in their own ridings, and especially the ones that can contribute significantly to campaigns....

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> One thing that you can't dispute is that during most of our lifetimes, Paul Martin has been the biggest tax-cutter of them all!!! And the biggest spending cutter... Much bigger than even Muroney... But it is questionable if the Liberals could have been as corrupt as Mulroney, or have done as much damage to our society through free trade, GST, etc... So I guess it's a question of who is the worst of the two, rather than who is going to be good for us .... I would contend that because we have such budget supluses, we should not just piss them away (primarily on Corp. Canada and the richest 10% of the population), but rather, fix a lot of things that were broken in our society due to deficits, and repair a lot of things that were looted to finance Martin's deficit reduction. I suppose that only Jack Layton will be doing that... We have unreasonable wait times for cancer treatment and dozens of other health care treatments... We have huge wait times at emergency wards because there is only one doctor on duty in the emergency wards of many of our hospitals. Why not fund health care enought to fix situations like in Ontario. Martin's cuts (along with Mike Harris's cuts) have left a huge deficit. The Ontario Liberals have fixed it somwhat with their "health care premium", almost 50% of which is paid by Ontario's working poor ($30,000 or less income). Martin's tax break will repay 50% of the $30 Billion to the wealthiest 10%.... Why not help the working poor pay the health care premium caused by the last round of cuts.... It's easier for the government to state that they're going to "give us more money" that they took from us, rather than actually fixing what's broken in our Country... If you think about all of the party's attitudes, only the NDP is talking about fixing the broken things... The'll get my vote...

It would appear that even the US Senate agrees that the USA has to improve the treatment of its prisoners:

I'm not goint to suggest how the union might act in a future hypothetical situation... I'm saying that Paul Martin did not have the right to take $30Billion from the pension fund.

Well, if you can't trust the Liberals, and we can't trust Harper.... Let's all vote for Jack Layton.....

Paul Martin is and always has been a fiscal Conservative. He's balanced the budget and reduced the deficit on the backs of the middle and lower income Canadians for years.... He's robbed health care and education to give to Corp. Canada... He already knows the "Conservative" tricks.... (And so do most Canadians, and that's why they'd prefer the crook we've got to what Harper has to offer...)

Who is responsible for any deficit in the pension fund? I beleive it is the government. Therefore for the government is entitled to any surplus. They're responsible for federal funding of health care... but there's not enough to keep hospitals open and hire doctors, because they gave our surpluses to Corp. Canada... I think it should be obvious that they can not be trusted.

It's free... as far as I know .... but here it is...

Was this a surprise for you... like about the potential of an election... If you want, the CBC will even email you the headlines so you aren't caught by surprise like you obviously were this time.... Actually, the union funds story shouldn't be taken lightly... It's the old-age pensioners money Martin is using to promise his tax grab...

Where have you been... He's not cooperating with them, because they won't guarantee that they will protect public health care.... Public health care is an unacceptable demand... And it is what the Liberals were promising before the last election... "We're not so different, the NDP and Liberals..."... remember Paul Martin saying that to try to buy NDP votes....

Paul Martin is funding his pre-election vote-buying tax-grab with money stolen from public service unions pension funds. Unions want Ottawa to return pension funds Paul Martin stole this money from the pension funds as finance minister to fund his deficit reduction, and never paid it back. Now he's promising the old age pensioners funds as a tax-grab to buy votes in the upcoming election.... but he's not in a hurry to return the stolen funds. And on top of that, corporate Canada and our weathiest 1% of the population is going to get over 80% of that money.... Paul Martin has absolutely no scruples.....

This is an excellent topic you bring up August. Health care and tax cuts. The reason that the NDP pulled its support for the Liberals was that the Liberals would not guarantee to support public health care. The NDP's main demand was that the Liberals guarantee that all new health-care spending was on public health care, as decreed in the Canada Health Act... not spending our money on privatized health care. The Liberals would give no such guarantee. It appears that our public health care system is not as important as giving contracts to Liberal-friendly health-care providers.... not just advertising firms... And many of the problems we have with our health-care system is due to reductions in funding. Wrecklessly giving huge tax breaks, contrary to the deal that they made with the NDP this spring is irresponsible vote-buying. If they have the money to spend on tax breaks, they should be more responsible to their electorate and put some of that money back into health care, where they looted a lot of it from... in the first place....

Here's a good article that pretty much sums up how I feel about the issue: Canada should insist rule of law applies to teen, Linda McQuaig I have just quoted the beginning of the article, but I recommend that you read the whole thing.

Since the USA already "participated" in a coup attempt, you can bet they're going to try to try again... maybe listening to Pat Robinson's advice and use a bullet ... They're known to do it.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That would be the most ridiculous thing ever. The U.S. will not take out Chavez. They failed in Cuba, they will almost certainly not try to alienate anyone in South America. The two countries U.S. intelligence are focusing most on now must be Iran and South Korea. The most ridiculous thing ever... when they participated in a coup to take Chavez out 3 years ago.... doesn't sound ridiculous at all ... especially that Chavez is the biggest obstacle to the USA's big FTAA project....

The above is your quote was it not, in which you paint him as a poor defenseless little boy who has suffered so much... but you fail to mention how much pain and suffering he has caused others nor have you mentioned what we should do with this terrorist, where do you stand when it comes to sentencing these terrorists. The quote was mine.. I don't read from the quote that he was "a poor defenseless little boy"... And any pain he has caused others is irrelavent to the topic at hand... He should be treated as a POW... but he's not.... He was a "soldier" for the other team... whether you like the other team or not... It was in a war zone... not a "terror zone" that the incident happened... It was soldier against soldier... Well, actually, one team had warplanes and big guns, and the other just had little guns, but we don't need to get into that.... and the objective of the operation has to do with "heaven" and "hell" ??? You are part of an invading army... the facts are the facts... there may well have been justification for the invasion, but it was an invasion....

Shoop, You are sooooooo right, it was printed for low lifes and it does appeal to them because at one time the NDP used to be a party that cared for the low lifes but under Jack Layton has changed to being the National DeBonk Party. Err has forgotten that the NDP roots were the low lifes and not the "grass"roots. The NDP is a party that always has championed the causes of the majority of Canadians, working, poor, etc... not just ones of a particular mental state... The term "low-life" refers more to a mental state of being than a fiscal one... There are people who fit the description of "low-life" in nearly every fiscal category. I neither know nor care about your fiscal status. However, your mental capacity is painfully obvious by your posts and choice of reading material.....

There was no sneering at all. I merely commented on the author's apparent fetish seemed to be one of his reasons for not liking Layton. He's free to have attractions to whomever he wishes... However, it shouldn't be a motivating factor in selection of who to vote for..... I think that testifies to his bad judgement...

I note that you didn't put in the part where the author explains how he has a fetish for big hairy truck drivers, and that is one of the big reasons he doesn't like Layton. Trash like that printed in your quoted source actually doesn't deserve to be answered. It appears to be printed for extremely low-life individuals, so I can see how this might appeal to you... Today's NDP champions the same causes as they always have. They put the citizens of Canada first. They champion public health care. They champion those who are left behind by our government that is drifting further and further to the right.....

As a point of interest, the USA has promoted it's "smart bombs" that can pinpoint the ventilation shaft of a building.... They've video taped and shown this to the world over and over, to show how they're making sure there are no civilian casualties. The fact of the matter is, that out of the 7 Hirosima's worth of bombs they dropped on Iraq, less than 1/10 of 1% were "smart bombs". The body count of civilians in Iraq for this latest war is between 27 and 30 thousand.... civilians. to use your words Argus, I have seen no sign whatever that the USA give a damn how many civiilans they kill in their attacks.