I had a house with 2 geothermal heat pumps previously... Worked great at basically sea level and along the Gulf Coast... Electrical costs seemed quite a bit less than other houses that I've owned... Unfortunately, it's an apples to oranges type of comparison since the houses weren't identical...
Even if that is the case, removing the world's dependence on oil would f*ck up the financing for the terrorists...
Kind of makes too much sense to build your chimney so that it catching on fire would be a non-event, I guess...
homemade setups excluded, there is nothing dangerous about using an oil furnace. servicing them on the other hand, can be quite interesting. in addition to my hourly rates and any other applicable fees, i have an additional fee specifically for oil furnaces just for the headache of having to touch one (just dirty, nasty work). improper ignition gaps can really make for a bad day. :-)
doesnt matter, ground source is the most efficient way to heat and cool your home. its free heat/cooling and will work well in all but the harshest of climates. its very common in rural montana (with electric suppliment for the coldest days) where getting propane delivered is expensive.
never gonna happen. we need a president with the balls to drill for the oil we already have. we will always be dependent on oil (at least in our lifetime) but we dont have to be dependent on middle eastern oil.
It was against the company rules, not against the law... There's a difference...
Build the chimney out of concrete... None of this wimpy ass tin crap with a certain distance between it and the nearest combustible object in the *hope* that you don't have a chimney fire... Build you one that Tim Allen would be proud of!
In article , Lon wrote: #Oil burners were way cleaner than burning uncured softwoods in furnaces, # fireplaces, room stoves, etc. Rarely did our local fire department #get a chimney fire call for oil burning houses, but wood burning ones #happened all the time. In a year, a big wood furnace would put about #an inch of gunk on the inside of the chimney.
That reminds me, several of my in-laws have catalytic converters in their fireplace chimneys. You pull out a bypass rod until the fire is hot enough and then push it back in when the temp sensing fan starts up. The smoke goes to zilch. I wonder how well it would work with unseasoned wood.
/herb
Tell the truth Bill, You make this s*it up don't you. LMAO: Argon Radiation...
I think he is talking about radon. Radon is known to come out of the ground here. It makes sense that it would be in the coal too. It can be a problem if you decide to convert your basement into finished living quarters.
Earle
Everybody turns down the damper so that the flame will last all night, not just yuppies. And not everyone can get decent fuel. Out here, people call aspen "hardwood" and mostly burn fir. There is no substitute for annual inspection of any wood burning flue. Oak and black locust, free for the taking at the orchard I used to work for, I miss that.
Earle
"L.W.(Bill) Hughes III" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@cox.net:
No scam, we can't use the oil from the Alaskan pipeline because we have no refineries to refine it. The plans called for a refinery or refineries to be built in the northwest somewhere (I'm too lazy to Google it) but the environmentalists blocked it. There hasn't been a refinery built in the US for many, many years AFAIK.
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