Hyperbole aside, I bet they’re more likely to arrest you if you are being a dumbass about it. Otherwise you’d just be escorted out. The AT does come right near the edge of it so I’m sure they’re used to people getting lost and curious on the edges from time to time.

I challenge you to don a blindfold and earplugs.

You think fighting pseudoscience is greasier than advancing pseudoscience?

Yeah, and 'logging road' can be a relatively smooth, wide gravel road or it can be two ruts in the dirt, it is so varied. GPS used to send people to my hometown on the logging roads and they'd show up in rental cars terrified they just voided the contract by the route they took! ITS and some logging roads under snow would look the same, actally ITS might look MORE like a road because they are maintained.

I'm glad they at least had the sense to NOT leave the car, that would have been an absolute death sentence.

https://www.maine.gov/energy/heating-fuel-prices

Ah, now that is interesting. Do you have suggestions for further learning?

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Heat pumps are designed to operate with a 40° change in temperature as their primary operation for those efficiency and price per month costs listed on the packaging. If it's negative 20° outside and you have to triple their primary operation power to pull heat from outside then, yeah, it uses pricey electricity. Even with the CMP rate hikes, it's still a less expensive source of heat in a well insulated location than any other automatic option.

Burning wood is cheaper.

I always say Maine is a small town. LOL

I really wonder how they ended up where they did. The warden said they had been on an ITS trail but the trail made a 90 degree turn and kept going on a logging trail, and they were found on the logging trail. I'm not familiar with that area at all, but I'm guessing it's hard to tell what road is what under the snow?

It is

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If you can, look at a small pellet stove for extra heat. Propane's double the cost or more per day of use and the wife will probably like the fire heat smell better.

Looks like downtown Belfast.

I only ever wen once in the 6 years I spent in Orono. Had a disastrous date there with a woman with whom I had NOTHING in common. It was seen as the only real, "nice" restaurant in the area. always wanted to go back and enjoy the place as so many people had they they did.

Could be running a desktop computer 24/7 and adding $50-$100 a month just for that.

(Edit) keep in mind CMP rates with delivery are now around $.25 a kWh.

How do you do your solar? Is it on your property, or some buy+in program like the junk mail ads keep recommending?

How do you go about getting a heat pump rate from CMP?

I have a 1600 square foot house built in 1910 on pier and skirt foundation with block and brick at points, insulation is key here. We keep the house at 64° in the winter time and things get a little chilly due to insulation inconsistencies in the old walls. If OP is throwing real numbers here, then insulation or potentially an open air gap is causing his loss of heat and increase in bill. The electric company also doubled the cost of electricity between 2019 and today.

Something's fishy, $100 in natural gas or propane would not heat a two bedroom house at 60° temperatures for a week. If it did, then you need to look and see if somebody left a window open upstairs in your attic or something this year.

😂😂😂

Yes, and that's just an old house using an oil burner and not having more than 4-in thick exterior walls with inconsistent insulation and plaster.

3rd now? I thought we were 2nd whitest..

In theory, if your heat pump is your only heat source, you're running it like you would air conditioning during the summer. All the damn time.

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