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Posted on 02/10/2025 11:21:25 AM PST by DallasBiff
My roommate in the college dorm used to rock back and light ‘em until he burned his ass one day. It did usually reduce the smell. Burning hair is worse than unflared ‘natural’ gas though.
Lol. Science is hard 😉
All my heating is from space heaters, they are quiet and have good thermostats so it is pretty much like having central heat.
I heat with wood; burn about 1 cord per year. What is a ‘rick’ of firewood?
There was a valid choice in the past: gas was better for fast heating. But the development of modern heat pumps since the 1990’s have close to erased the advantage of using natural gas.
Thank you for posting that!
I believe that you have explained the construction of New England homes to me! We called them “salt boxes” or “match boxes” or some such but they were vertical box houses centered around one or more brick chimneys that opened to fireplaces on multiple floors.
All of that heated brick looks just like what you built.
I thought any argument about CO2 would have been gone a long time ago. I thought everybody but Democrats knew by now what CO2 is.
It’s been my understanding that heat pumps are only good within certain temperature limitations.
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I just did. What’s the effect of big rooms with windows on three sides? I know that cold air, when heated, drops in relative humidity. Therefore, humidification might make the air more comfortable for some.
It is a stupid question, to ask which is “better”, though an interesting thread.
Better how? Cost, efficiency, volume of heat production?
I suppose if the choice is freezing to death, it doesn’t matter how much the heat costs.
Interesting discussion, though.
Electric heating is gay.
We have heated ceilings in this house. Turned off of course. Our system is a heat pump with a gas feed. Emergency Heat is gas. Two gas fireplaces, 4 Morningwood gas heaters.
“I miss radiators. I grew up in an apartment where the whole complex was heated with coal through hot water radiators.”
Sounds like you grew up with a hot water heater. I wasn’t as lucky, had a gas heater and a gas water heater.
I don’t remember any discomfort; occasionally we had a pan of water on a radiator.
But we are just a little north of DC, and don’t usually have very extreme weather.
I just remember that there were two (three?) big boiler rooms on the property, and trucks would bring loads of coal to them now and then; and the hot water ran through pipes to each apartment.
We never lacked or ran out of hot water.
Nice!
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I have a heat pump (there is no natural gas where I live, and propane is expensive). It’s just a regular single stage Trane.
It’s capable of keeping my house at 68F when it’s 17F outside without needing the electric aux heat strips. That’s probably because my house is “tight”, not drafty, I made sure of that during construction.
So the discussion really needs a geography component. In upstate NY, the heat pup can be used 3-4 months a year, April/May and September/October when it is over 40 degrees. Once it's colder than that it doesn't work. It does a great job for those 3-4 months though.
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