tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7766273935038042110.post8805845237694578598..comments2023-10-17T03:30:00.824-05:00Comments on Prudence for Dummies: Heat Nazismushroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7766273935038042110.post-15507021071432923902015-03-11T09:35:17.394-05:002015-03-11T09:35:17.394-05:00I guess my primary would be propane. Every time I...I guess my primary would be propane. Every time I order a load, I want to start singing like J.J. Cale: <i>Propane!</i> Or I think of Hank Hill. <br /><br />I have a heat-pump, and I might replace the one I have with a ground-source heat-pump one of these days. I think I could run that off a solar array pretty easily. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7766273935038042110.post-26886293290054989782015-03-10T12:54:39.518-05:002015-03-10T12:54:39.518-05:00I have electric heat but I do have a woodstove I c...I have electric heat but I do have a woodstove I could use, just in case. That thing really makes the place toasty! Hardly ever use it though, which is why I occasionally geta bird or bat stuck in it.<br />Always lots of fun getting them out of the house. :)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7766273935038042110.post-67647770699646818562015-03-10T02:28:26.940-05:002015-03-10T02:28:26.940-05:00I reckon we will see a lot more of this bureaucrat...I reckon we will see a lot more of this bureaucratic fascism before Obama leaves office.<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7766273935038042110.post-12507209664525506002015-03-09T22:42:44.558-05:002015-03-09T22:42:44.558-05:00Buying out the competition. Isn't that why th...Buying out the competition. Isn't that why they went after Standard Oil back in Teddy Roosevelt's day? I guess it's OK now so long as you recycle those taxpayer dollars back into the campaign coffers of the right politicians.<br /><br />My niece in WI went with that same kind of underfloor heating. They like it really well. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7766273935038042110.post-36267689852752658032015-03-09T16:05:57.419-05:002015-03-09T16:05:57.419-05:00Sounds like your EPA folks have been on a fact-fin...Sounds like your EPA folks have been on a fact-finding tour of New Zealand, particularly our cities. Here too we have had our efficient log burners outlawed in favour of those you cannot simply ‘bank up’ with wood over night, and still be rewarded with heat in the morning.<br /><br />Open fires are verboten.<br /><br />Coal fires are verboten.<br /><br />Everything is verboten unless it is expressly permitted.<br /><br />We checked out pellet fires. They are efficient but require an internal fan to push the heat out of the unit and into your room. If you lived on an airport flight path you might not notice the noise they generate.<br /><br />In the end, when we recently built our first new house, we installed underfloor heating based upon water pipes in the concrete floor, heated by a diesel burner.<br /><br />Our 'EPA' is happy for us to burn diesel apparently.Brendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7766273935038042110.post-7289399744533518622015-03-09T15:53:53.425-05:002015-03-09T15:53:53.425-05:00From what I've seen, pellet stoves burn very c...From what I've seen, pellet stoves burn very clean. I'm guessing that you could have a whole neighborhood running them and you wouldn't notice it. It would be a great business, too. Each house would have a hopper on the side, and the pellet man could come by with his truck and fill the hoppers. Pellets could be locally produced. Winwinwin! BUT, oh, CO2. Musn't have that. <br /><br />Speaking of energy did you see on WRSA that a wind/renewable energy company is buying a coal plant in Florida just to shut it down? (I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.) How did the wind/renewable company get so wealthy? Couldn't have been an unfair advantage from taxpayer money could it?John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.com