john_shafthair

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by john_shafthair 3y ago
No. A heat pump requires a significantly higher amount of electricity to function. An average gas furnace blower motor draws around 7A at 120V. A heat pump can require between 20A-40A at *240V* PLUS the air handler which is the same as abov
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20180426220342if_/http://assets....
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
That's not really true elsewhere. Using in-ground oil tanks is an antiquated practice that isn't used anymore. Any modern heating oil installation has the tanks either in the cellar or in the yard behind the house. Either one woul
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
That seems pretty stupid. While they're at it, why not update the SSH warning banner with a list of what we do and don't log on this system. As a courtesy to their adversary. This sudo message has been the same since the dawn of t
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
I agree with everything you said except there has been a war on heating oil since before this tiff with natural gas. So even suggesting that is anathema because it would be career suicide for the politicians pushing this. You can certainly
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
Literally the first sentence of their rebuttal admits it's all performative: > Well, the risk for the environment, it's more about what gas stoves have come to represent. And that's the practice of burning natural gas in
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
It's very possible, and might be impossible to upgrade a large multi unit building. In most jurisdictions a large renovation would force you to upgrade such things. In this case I would assume simply disallowing a gas stove without pro
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
Electric resistance heat is super inefficient. That's why it's often referred to as "emergency heat". Ironically the best combo is a heat pump + natural gas furnace as a backup. Best of both worlds. But here we are makin
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
They ARE required by code and have been for years. Parent's "luxury" apartment was not built to code. Probably one of those illegal NYC apartments where you tear open the walls and there's a whole other furnished room in
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
Not when the power's out for days - as often happens in winter storms. You can run the blower and electronics of a natural gas furnace or boiler off a little camping generator for a week or even better a natural gas whole house unit in
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
One can go on Amazon and order himself a high powered FM transmitter direct from China. Stick an antenna in the attic and you'll be heard for miles. If you don't gaf about spurious emissions or laws or anything like that you too c
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
Whoa, that DVD changer is almost as big as a server rack. I'd love to have that in my garage.
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
Why not just have it drain into an ordinary condensate pump which is built for this purpose? Those roll around ACs usually have a spigot to attach a hose you can run into a drain.
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
Twitter is a discussion forum, or as Musk succinctly put it, "a group text service at scale". No one goes to Twitter for some hacked-together side channel notifications. Companies leech off it for the reach. If they want the custo
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by john_shafthair 3y ago
AutoIt.
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