Posted on 05/02/2023 6:57:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Anarchy USA
Part 1
I suggest everyone also do what he can at home to make sure you're not adding to the energy bills with bad insulation, unsealed cracks, inefficient appliances, or even appliances that somewhat work against each other (i.e. water heater tank in living quarters adding some radiant heat while you're trying to cool the home). Frankly, I'm embarrassed at how long I waited until I did that kind of deep dive and could have saved money for years without lowering our habits and comfort.
“ ALL are conservatives and hate lefties.”
And for every one of them there are 20 brand new lefties crossing the southern border or “graduating” from government schools every year.
I’m super efficient, and I enjoy the game, but your point is important, and super insulation is about more than just money it is about comfort and consistent temperatures.
Sitting next to an insulated wall feels completely different than sitting next to an uninsulated wall, regardless of the air temperature.
Something I have trouble convincing people of is whole-house fans, I monitor the temperatures in rooms and outdoors and use the whole-house fan to assist in both the heating and cooling of the house depending on what I can get from outside.
R22 is out. Costs over two grand for a cylinder. R410A is next.
Great stuff from back a ways! Note: Senator Kennedy (who set up the failure of healthcare through HMOS, requiring obamaumao whom he backed to create obama-care. The gift that keeps on stealing.)
In reply here’s buddy Del (who did this album ironically to support John Edwards as vs. hillary and obamaumao before his baby mama gave up his “evidence” in the Governors Club house he put her up in):
40 Acres and a Fool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRO88Hj-34
I replaced my natural gas water tank with a hybrid water tank. It has a built-in heat pump in the top of it. Not only does it use less power than a normal electric tank, but I'm able to do tricky things with the air flow of the water heater. I duct into the air intake warm air from the attic so that the water heater's heat pump doesn't have to work as hard to find heat in the air it draws in. As far as the free cold air the water heater produces, I dump that into the floor next to the water heater where a new HVAC receiver pulls that free cold air into the home HVAC ducts so that my home heat pump doesn't have to work as hard in the warm months making cold air. (In the winter I duct the water heater's cold air output into the attic.) That fact that the variable speed heat pump runs almost constantly (even at slow speed) means that there's never a moment when the water heater is spitting out free cold air that my HVAC won't pick it up to use that free cold air. (The house as a whole is more efficient than the sum of its parts.)
When you think about little stuff like that it's, duh!! How did I not do that years ago! Free heat energy in the attic -- might as well use that to help heat the water tank. Get a water tank that makes free cold air for 2-3 hours per day so you can use that to help cool the home. Even if I had never gone solar I should have thought about simple efficiency improvements like that. When I did the math and analysis to figure out if and how I could cost effectively take in and store solar power, it was only at that point I also began to study how I could more efficiently use the energy once it's in the home. Half of the battle won in making my solar produce 80% of all the power I need in my home is won by the fact that my home no longer needs a lot of power anyway. I still grumble a lot about the Dims' stupid war on energy. But I point one finger at myself for not doing what I could on my end until 2 years ago.
How many people are in the South?
Guys reading your post are going to lust for that setup, very nice.
Hopefully the Yankees will finally go home
A lot.
I am debating going ghetto once my big system croaks.
Stand up units ported though the window.
Why not? I can buy all new, heat, cool, dehumidify, for ~1/3 the price of a big system on the side of the house. They are portable and all this constant repair nonsense and games are history.
You see any argument against it?
Most of those DC a holes are working from home. So I would make it priority one to get them back to the office. Then turn off the HVAC. I hate that area as much as I despise commies.
As with all these diktats, start with Government buildings and employees for ten years. Take gas heat and air conditioning out of DC for a decade, and let’s see their opinion. Then we can have a vote to see if we allow it back.>><> a good start would be Philly City hall. It was built prior to central air and has a couple hundred window air conditioners
Why don’t we just self-annihilate. I’m mean, really.
Brandon first. De-air-condition the WH and all his four mansions, and keep it off during August.
I say of this goes into effect we attack every air conditioner that service these pukes offices and places of work and then their homes
Conversely any change that benefits them usually costs us.
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