I just recently saw some dolphins playing and jumping and splashing and shit. It was great. I was on a jetty out at sea, and they just started playing. I loved it.
Geothermo is great if you have it, but it takes a lot of money to install for the few days you need backup heat. A regular gas furnace is a better backup.
If you have geothermo sized right for your house and climate you don't need a backup at all. However at the expensive of installing it you can get a modern air source heat pump for a lot less $$$, and so overall that is the better plan for most people even though in many climates you will need some other backup heat source for the days that it gets too cold for the air source heat pump.
Better than this, I’m in QC (basically same climate as ME) and my heatpump is rated -20C/-4F and yes it works in winter to heat the house. Sometimes the heat pump goes in a “anti frost mode”, it’s automatic. I set it to 73F in winter and depending of the room it’s between 70 and 73, even if it’s -4F outside.
In QC, ME, VT, etc it can go down to -22F in winter, not uncommon. I have electric baseboard set to 70F so in case the heatpump stops, the baseboards take the relay.
-60⁰ F windchill. You always want to install the heat pump exchanger where it's not getting battered by wind anyway, so it's probably not feeling temps that low
I put in a dual fuel heat pump in my Massachusetts house a couple years ago. I'd love to have just a heat pump, but those arctic temperature excursions we get - ironically because of climate change destabilizing the jet stream - combined with our ongoing lack of cheap, sustainable electric generation made me want to keep that gas furnace backup for the worst of the season.
Heat pump means in using my gas furnace about 50% less than I was before the switch. And also, new gas furnace is 96% efficient rather than 80%.
The fact that, in this country, this is pretty much the one small part of the incarceration process that has been pried back from the claws of vampiric companies psychologically abusing inmates for profit is…beyond depressing.
We’re long past the point of companies doing what’s actually best. Consider how many are returning to offices despite all the evidence that wfh is better for all involved.
As with most things I think a big part of the problem is executives. They live for work. They love coming in and lording over their little fiefdoms and holding pointless meetings where everyone has to listen to them talk. Why would they give up a day of that every week? Why would they let people wfh where they aren’t forced to be in the room making them feel important?
Doesn’t help that middle management feels threatened since it is becoming obvious that nobody needs them. You can pretend like you’re working when people are in the office, but suddenly when noone needs you?
Yeah I’m firmly convinced of that. It’s similar to things like dressing professionally. I’m concerned with a combination of effectiveness and the welfare of all stakeholders (though I do believe the workers ought to own the place, but that’s separate). Companies do better when workers rest.
And it’s important to remember that the 40 hour work week was negotiated with the assumption the worker does no domestic labor. Due to women entering the workplace that’s no longer the reality, and while yes in heterosexual marriages the woman is more likely to be expected to take on a disproportionate amount of the domestic labor, in the ideal scenario of 50/50 with equal domestic and professional labor, we’d be working a 20 hour week. That’s a lot of assumptions but the reality is a lot of folks are burnt the fuck out. It’s exhausting to cook a healthy meal every day or two on top of an 8 hour day 5 days a week. Add in commutes, and cleaning and other chores. What happened to your 8 hours to do what you will.
And that’s not disparaging women in the workforce. I’m a professional woman as is my wife. It’s that bosses used women’s liberation as an excuse to not raise wages but didn’t cut the time they expected folks to work. So now middle class means two people work full time in middle class jobs
Ive been saying this for a long time. Families were being raised on 40 hour a week income and then one day it was like over 100 since so many folks were easily averaging 50 hour weeks.
There isn’t evidence that WFH is better for all involved. Many benefit from it but some people suffer. Especially juniors and new joiners have been shown to have a harder time ramping up and integrating.
And that’s why you will NEVER see it in states like Texas and Mississippi. Rehabilitation and low recidivism rate are only goals for the state of California, not the rest of the USA.
Heat pumps are fantastic, some of the most efficient machines humans have made! Recently upgraded from an old 1950’s oil furnace to a heat pump w/ electric backup and I’ve saved so much money.
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