Just replaced oil + some electric baseboards with heat pumps + the same electric baseboards. However, when it got down to -5F or so the heat pumps and baseboards were only able to keep the house at around 60F.

The main problem is the house leaks like a sieve. Even with oil it would get cold. I had a brief power outage on a cold day and it caused a 7F drop in temperature in like an hour. Now I've got to go through and seal up all the holes and air leaks and missing storm windows.

Even with the leaks, the heat pumps have so far saved me hundreds of dollars per month over last winter's oil.

I'm sorry to hear how ras syndrome affects your ocd disorder :( maybe spend less time around LCD displays?

As of meow

Are you saying basic human rights shouldn’t be means tested!?

As if children should receive some sort of “universal basic ingestible”, just because they’re going to an institution specifically designed to maximise their future economic contribution to society!?

And what exactly the hell do you think you’re going to get out of doing all that? Some sort of generation of well educated, healthy and financially stable, youth, far less likely to have mental or preventable physical health issues, who don’t need to fall into a debasing repetitive cycle of criminal activity in order just to survive!?

Do you have any idea how much a scheme like this would cost the taxpayers? Cents! Maybe even tens of cents per taxpayer!! Every year!!!

Outrageous! Deplorable! Etc.

Next thing you’re going to tell me you think education should be free!! 😂🤣🤢

I too refuse to make progress, until the perfect solution is presented.

No duh there's still more work to do. Nobody is saying this is the end, but a very good step forward.

Pho made by actual vietnamese people are great but there are so many places run by koreans and spanish people who just use shit ton of salt and msg to imitate the broth

Oooooo I gotta try that

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Yeah, there's a lot of moving parts determining whether this is immediately beneficial to the environmental impact of climate control or not.

Lower demand for fuel at each household, but increased demand for fuel at the power station; what net change in fuel cost does this create?

Heat pumps tout up to 300% efficiency, but that is only achieved in ideal weather conditions; how often is it operating well short of that?

There may be economies of scale using fuel for power generation at the power plant; how much more efficient is it? How do transmission losses factor into that?

There are plenty of talking points for or against. I don't think everyone should just go convert a perfectly functional system to electric, and for others, conversion may be financially irresponsible. If we're looking at this as a phase (get it?) in a larger plan to reduce dependence on fossil fuel for energy needs, then it seems like an eventually worthwhile change and not just passing the buck or kicking the can.

What we have been seeing are things happening in parallel. Efforts to reduce generation emissions while also increasing residential and commercial structure and systems efficiency.

In terms of that last mile efficiency, this is just the next evolution to previous efforts to increase efficiency in lighting. Remember when the vast majority of light bulbs used 60-100 watts? I even used to have a 300-watt halogen lamp! Now we are seeing 10-15 watts. That's huge! And looking at the efficiency of AC units for a 3ton unit, at 14 seer, it was like running 25 of those old light bulbs; a 25 seer unit would be like 14 of those old light bulbs, or maybe 100-150 modern led lights. We shifted energy demand away from lighting, and by moving away from combustion heat, shifting demand more to electric heat, but it is not an equal exchange. As generation becomes more efficient, we're actually looking at the end game of a major shift in energy sources and consumption. We are also doing our part adopting more EV and PHEV vehicles (a whole other can or worms). Let's not get pessimistic and take the wind out of the sails of people who want to switch from a furnace to a heat pump now! Things feel like they are moving in the right direction, slowly but surely.

Well and this particular procedure has a 10% mortality rate for both the donor and the patient.

Not extremely rare by any means

Meox-ski!

There was a firefight

Critical misses everywhere

Covid put several out of business in the towns near me

You ment A Purr-fect 5 star average right?

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There's only a couple places for pho and they're fine, I guess. A place called Simmer that I thought was pretty good. But according to the Vietnamese women at my wife's nail salon, none of the places in town are any good. I'm pretty sure they're comparing it to their home recipes. Maybe next time we're in the mood for it we'll drive up and check out Lee's.

If you find yourself in SR running errands or something, give it a go! What’s the Vietnamese scene like in Petaluma?

It’s a strange sort of uncanny valley feeling because I still remember what they used to look like.

You think they'd let losing an election get rid of them?

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Is it worth driving over from Petaluma for? I saw the story about the this locally.

Isn’t it cool how we’ve rebuilt the area though? I love how different all the houses are

This comment reminds me of the “Californians” skit from SNL.

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