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To: TigersEye

Agreed. They should shut it off.

It’s also possible that temperature fluctuations between two and six years from now will shut it off for them. I made sure that some recent replacements for solar system components here are good down to -40, F (couldn’t find any that will stand lower than that). We’re also looking at some ways to backup propane heating with non-propane solutions.

Propane yields noticeably less volume and pressure for large appliances in the minus 30s, F, and freezes at -44, F. Propane furnaces and generators, needing much volume, could be problematic, and large propane tanks made for burial are very expensive. One solution is to heat propane tanks with heat tape and insulation, but that’s not as reliably done for houses too far from the grid (expensive heating with PV solar systems).


67 posted on 11/24/2014 1:54:14 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop
If it gets below -40 in CO for long we'll all be screaming climate change.

"Climate, change!" lol

69 posted on 11/24/2014 1:58:57 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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