Bill and Bob,
Yes I have heard about retractible studs. I misread Bill's post to mean stud removal, not stud activation.
Yes I have heard about retractible studs. I misread Bill's post to mean stud removal, not stud activation.
I could make a comment about 40 winks, but I won't 😛
Looks like California is being hit with rather more water than it can cope with today. My friend whose flitting between CA and Reno at the moment said 24" of snow round him.
Looks like California is being hit with rather more water than it can cope with today. My friend whose flitting between CA and Reno at the moment said 24" of snow round him.
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Supposed to snow today - instead, sun was warm on my coat as I was a-strugglin' with the jig saw, cutting out my MLs (1" MDF) for a couple of TLs I decided to build.
Now, it's cold again.
Supposed to snow today - instead, sun was warm on my coat as I was a-strugglin' with the jig saw, cutting out my MLs (1" MDF) for a couple of TLs I decided to build.
Now, it's cold again.
10cm more!
80% of Finns use studded winter tires and Nokian is most popular brand. My 4wd runs on Continental friction grips!
Our house gets heated by electricity/waterpipes in the floors, total consumption is 23 000kW/year! Recently we installed an air-water heat pump and a air-air condidtioner pump. Power consumption is supposed to drop 20%...
80% of Finns use studded winter tires and Nokian is most popular brand. My 4wd runs on Continental friction grips!
Our house gets heated by electricity/waterpipes in the floors, total consumption is 23 000kW/year! Recently we installed an air-water heat pump and a air-air condidtioner pump. Power consumption is supposed to drop 20%...
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23MWh sounds better 🙂
If you average over the year its only 3kW consumption continuously. Doesn't sound at all bad.
If you average over the year its only 3kW consumption continuously. Doesn't sound at all bad.
Our local gas station/service shop in NJ sold Finnish snow tires -- we had them on one of the Fords.
Now Blizzak's on the Ford Expedition, and Lincoln.
Taking our first trip west to the ancestral homeland via I-80 today. We have to dance between the rain-drops and guess-timate the best date to go back to NJ through the possibility of icing and sleeting.
23000 kW
.. would be in Germany at a kW price of 31 cents, 7130 € per year.
the latest thing I have just seen in a new building is a biomass heating / power generation for a residential house.
Weather: Rain + 3 Celsius + 73 km/h Wind
In our 1375 ft^2 townhouse we use 13,000 kWh/yr. at $0.10 per. It's all hydro electric, no natural gas. I think that is very reasonable.
Meanwhile in Canada
Tout droit du Pole Nord
Un peu de... - Pour tous les amoureux du Valais
kWh price varies per contract, it is split between transfer rate and consumer price roughly 50/50.
Tout droit du Pole Nord
Un peu de... - Pour tous les amoureux du Valais
kWh price varies per contract, it is split between transfer rate and consumer price roughly 50/50.
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We also land around 20 000kwh/year, since we use electricity for heating, cooking + everything else (including my EV) I do not think it's bad.
If you factor in the gas and whatever else you guys in the US or Canada use you probably get a more compareable result.
Woke up to -20c today, not -19, got to work outside for some unfathomable reason idk...
If you factor in the gas and whatever else you guys in the US or Canada use you probably get a more compareable result.
Woke up to -20c today, not -19, got to work outside for some unfathomable reason idk...
Yeah, that happened. Our house was left without power for 48 hours or so. We live outside of town and have our own well, so that meant no water as well as no heat or lights. We decamped to my parents' house in the Bay Area for the duration.
Some areas down the coast got 6+ inches of rain in a day. We'd be in big trouble here with that much rain, there are no storm drains here so after heavy rains my front yard starts to look like a lake.