Posted on 02/24/2014 5:18:11 AM PST by thackney
The biggest problem still with a lot of the houses here in NH is they just do not have enough insulation in them. It is very evident just recently based on the amount of icicles hanging off their eves. Almost every house that was built prior to 1990 does not have enough insulation in its attic based on todays standards. Adding insulation to your attic will pay itself off within 3-4 years. Just going around and caulking around windows, doors and other openings will also pay off quickly. Lastly, taking off your exterior wall outlet/switch covers and foaming around the box will also air seal and save money. All of these things can be done easily by almost any home owner. There are also lots of videos now on UTUBE how to do all these things. They are not expensive and there is a tax deduction for insulation. However, it requires getting off the couch.
I don’t have a problem with those types of rules...just raise the price for those municipalities...it’s when they make it practically impossible to search and drill for it!!
Thanks. Electrical power capacity doubled between 1977 and 2005. Natural gas usage also doubled during that period.
The differences in the inefficiencies of the Nat Gas turbines, particularly with the growth of larger combined cycle units, means the fuel consumption did not double with the output.
It might seem like nit-picking, but some of today's units are around 60% efficient.
LOL! These Watermelons just keep pretending they're being "green" while screwing their constituents. Hopefully the winter of 2017 will be as bad as this one and we'll see some people finally get pissed off about this.
“It will only be good until the price of natural gas skyrockets. We’re ignoring the price spike in the early pert of the 90’s and the reason that happened. We’ll see the same thing in the future.”
I think there is a significant paradigm shift that has occured in the last 10 years relative to natural gas.
The shale/frac revolution is here and it is here to stay. Gas prices will NEVER be that high again other than short periods. Simply too much gas has been exposed due to the new technology.
And America is rich in it.
The only thing that might cause gas to be high is the intervention of govt artificially altering market.
I was on GE’s prototype frame E project that was built in VA. It was an eye opener in more ways than one.
I’ve done several big natural gas turbines for compressor station on pipelines. Over the last couple decades, even these simple cycle machines have made a lot of progress.
Cheers!
If you are in the Midwest, you might want to look at something else:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deere.com%2Fen_US%2Fparts%2Fmedia%2Fpdf%2Fhomeandworkshop%2Fstoves%2Fcorn_stove_brochure_08_08.pdf&ei=m3gLU86aG7C4yAGhi4GQCA&usg=AFQjCNGvuSUUPfjfpL_MbLPH02Y_N8-O4Q&sig2=npzOkQzP-Koz1tbPLTg3bQ&bvm=bv.61725948,d.aWc&cad=rja
Its a pdf download from John Deere. The table of interest didn’t copy well, but the numbers are there.
Heating Cost Comparison for Traditional and Alternative Fuels:
1. Fuel Type, 2. BTU Value per Unit, 3. Units Required to Produce 1,000,000 BTUs, 4. Fuel Price per Unit, 5. Cost to Produce 1,000,000 BTUs, 6. Appliance efficiency, 7. Effective Cost Per 1,000,000 BTUs
Shelled Corn 7,500/lb. 125 lbs. (2.23 bushel) $5.58/bushel $12.44 85% $14.64
Electricity 3,143/KWH 293 KWH $.10049/KWH $29.44 100% $29.44
Natural Gas 100,020/cu. ft. 1,030 cu. ft. $15.89/100 cu. ft. $16.37 85% $19.24
Fuel Oil 139,000/gallon 7.1 gallons $4.25/gallon $30.18 80% $37.73
LP Gas 91,690/gallon 11 gallons $2.209/gallon $24.30 80% $30.38
Wood 16,464,000/cord 0.0607 cords $195/cord $11.84 60% $19.73
Wood Pellets 8,000/lb. 125 lbs. $180/ton $11.25 87% $12.93
Friday’s closing price for corn delivered to the elevator was for our farm was $4.22, about the highest since before harvest. The summer of 2013 was not good growing year, yet the total yield was a record high. The extra yield is likely due to drought resistant genetics of the new corn. In my opinion, if we ever have an average or better growing season, the farmer’s price of corn will be below $3.
On another subject, the BNSF railroad shipped 400,000 oil tanker cars in 2013 and forecasts shipment of 600,000 oil tanker cars in 2015.
The question is who/what company is getting the orders for all these new tanker cars?
Buffett’s Union Tank Car Co. is working at full capacity and Icahn’s American Railcar Industries Inc. (ARII) has a backlog through 2014. Trinity Industries Inc. (TRN), the biggest railcar producer, began converting wind-tower factories last year to help meet demand for train cars that can transport the petroleum product.
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In 2007, Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) purchased 60 percent of Union Tank’s parent company, Marmon Holdings Inc.
Today, Berkshire owns 90 percent of the company, according to an annual report for investors, where Buffett implored them to look for the company’s UTLX logo on any tank cars they see passing by.
Propane and heating oil sell for the exact same price in Red England right now...in fact, propane has a slight edge on oil at the moment.
People in my area of Red Hampshire are opposed to Northern Pass because they believe it is designed to benefit Massghanistan.
That is why I am for it. However, make them bury it along the new right of way.
Works for me.
Good point, I am with you on that. I have installed three of those in the last 10 years. One in the former house. Two in the new(40 year old) house.
According to the local insulation company the other important thing to do is air seal the attic. That means go up in the attic and caulk the seams where the partition stud walls meet the ceiling drywall to make sure there is no air infiltration from the heated second/first floor into the attic. Around ceiling light fixtures, ceiling fans and bath vent fans it may be necessary to foam around the openings between the drywall and the fixture. By doing this alone he stated it added about R10 to the attic insulation.
I did this last fall to the house we bought the previous spring. I used about 14 tubes of caulk @ $2.98/tube.
The reason is that most houses prior to 1990 they did not poly the ceiling of the house with a 6 mil vapor barrier. When I bought my 1972 vintage house last spring there was 5 1/2” of fiberglass insulation in the attic. The previous owners had lived there for 25 years. I blew in about 12” of bonded cellulose on top of that. I will probably add to that this spring or fall.
Hmmm...I never even thought of that. Where were you before I added the additional insulation? Ha-ha.
Essentially every significant pipeline in the world is buried. Only in areas of Permafrost or other significant concerns would in be otherwise.
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