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EV Optics Fail: Bribery Biden’s Energy Secretary’s Tries a PR Stunt, Gets Police Called on Them by Suffering Family
Liberty Daily ^ | • Sep. 10, 2023 | J.D. Rucker

Posted on 09/11/2023 6:41:49 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: EVO X
Evidently you glossed over the two sentences before that: "I doubt it’ll be worth going all-electric, though. Their winters are brutal. It might, however, be worth adding a heat pump rated for low temps as a kind of first step before temps get low enough to have to run the regular furnace."

Basically, I'm agreeing that a heat pump can't work well in very cold weather, especially older heat pumps (as you put it: "many moons ago"). The heat pump would warm the home in the fall and spring when it's do-able by a heat pump, and do so sometimes with free power if they have some pico wind turbines (assuming it's do-able when I get there and study the specs).

61 posted on 09/11/2023 10:32:13 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

The problem can be solved. It will only take more money. You just don’t believe hard enough. Tap your heals together three times and you can be back in Kansas or Michigan or Canada or whatever hole you crawled out of. /s except for the hole you crawled out of part.


62 posted on 09/11/2023 10:47:58 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Tell It Right

I am not the first Freeper to gloss over articles and comments, LOL. I sort of hinted at the issue, but my point is can the elderly recover the cost of major upgrades before they pass on.


63 posted on 09/11/2023 10:48:54 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X
I am not the first Freeper to gloss over articles and comments, LOL. I sort of hinted at the issue, but my point is can the elderly recover the cost of major upgrades before they pass on.

I won't know the numbers until I get there and study the specs like I did my own situation when I went solar and did other home improvements to my home. My energy project is paying for itself on about the 11th year (assuming a reasonable 3% inflation rate on energy costs). Obviously, the Dims are trying really hard to make my energy project payback sooner.

If my family members live outside the nursing home as long as their parents, they probably have 15-20 years left. And they have no debt: their plan is to leave their homes to their heirs. But I don't know how much power they consume per day and how that changes per month (i.e. in the summer in Alabama our power consumption skyrockets, I'm sure that's the opposite for them up north). Nor am I sure how gusty the wind is (i.e. what percentage of days will the wind blow at least 6 mph to turn a pico wind turbine). So I don't have enough data to do a recommendation.

64 posted on 09/11/2023 10:59:06 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: entropy12
I have a battery powered weed eater....it's great too!!

But I will NEVER have an EV..car/truck.

65 posted on 09/11/2023 11:05:34 AM PDT by Osage Orange
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Can’t get a fast charger because the Energy Secretary had a gas powered vehicle occupy the spot?

Make way for the Energy Secretary you peasants!!


66 posted on 09/11/2023 1:07:03 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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