Fish Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Around here when it's cool we burn a big log. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Brand new high efficiency gas fired boiler and clean, non drying, QUIET hydronic heat. mmmmm toasty mmmmm 14" of blown in cellulose in the attic and urethane on the crawl space walls helps too! I dropped my gas bills about 50% and decreased road and air traffic noise tremendously for about $3500 last year. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungkiman Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Hydronic is nice, if you can set it and forget it. I'm not George Foreman, but depending on your (floors) thermal mass, it can take quite some time to raise or lower room temperature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerohm Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I bought 500 gals for THIS heating season LAST March @ 1.97/gal, but haven't taken delivery. I am HOPING he doesn't go out of business. [] The negative side of reducing interest rates and trashing the dollar [bs] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 I use to be able to lock-in at a lower price for the season, that doesn't happen around here anymore.......Should be an interesting heating season !!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Brac ................ No piles and piles of humidity, alteast I never noticed any, lack of humidity maybe, but that's normal during heating season....... propane and natural gas turn into carbon monoxide and water vapour with heat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I got me one of them global warming, outdoor wood boilers. works great. If we find out that I am a god and I can control the climate on global scale, I want to do my part to make Maine a warmer place to live!!!!! Also it will burn ANYTHING so I do way less cutting of wood I just take junk wood that other people are ready to throw out..... sweet I love the fact that when Mt Saint Helen blew it sent as much pollution and green house gases that man has made in the last 100 years up into the atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Brac ................ No piles and piles of humidity, alteast I never noticed any, lack of humidity maybe, but that's normal during heating season....... propane and natural gas turn into carbon monoxide and water vapour with heat that's .. Carbon Di- Oxide .... , Jay ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Brac ................ No piles and piles of humidity, alteast I never noticed any, lack of humidity maybe, but that's normal during heating season....... propane and natural gas turn into carbon monoxide and water vapour with heat that's .. Carbon Di- Oxide .... , Jay ... there is carbon monoxide but i believe most propane has a catalyst that converts to dioxide wikipedia Propane undergoes combustion reactions in a similar fashion to other alkanes. In the presence of excess oxygen, propane burns to form water and carbon dioxide. C3H8 + 5O2 ? 3CO2 + 4H2O + heat When not enough oxygen is present for complete combustion, propane burns to form water and carbon monoxide. 2C3H8 + 7O2 ? 6CO + 8H2O + heat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 The stuff that Mt. Saint Helens blows into the atmosphere does not let the sunlight through and reflects it back, actually causing the Earth to cool down. CO2 lets the sunlight through and does not let the heat escape causing the Earth to heat up. If the super volcano Yellowstone blows it will send the Earth into an ice age for 2000 years and eliminate the human race. It blows every 600,000 years and is 40,000 years overdue. Satellite readings indicate that Yellowstone is rising (buldging) about 1 foot every year. Mother nature has all the stuff in place to cure global warming, and us. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Thump Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Oldbuckster,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Have you ever looked into wood pellet stoves? We put one in two years ago and have saved about $1000 per year compared to natural gas. The heat is nicer because it doesnt dry your air out as bad as a gas furnace. We heat our entire house with one stove by keeping the fan circulating on the furnace. The theater in the basement is a little cold but I like it that way. We use 1-2 40 lbs bags per day so this is some maintenance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brac Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I got me one of them global warming, outdoor wood boilers. works great. If we find out that I am a god and I can control the climate on global scale, I want to do my part to make Maine a warmer place to live!!!!! Also it will burn ANYTHING so I do way less cutting of wood I just take junk wood that other people are ready to throw out..... sweet I love the fact that when Mt Saint Helen blew it sent as much pollution and green house gases that man has made in the last 100 years up into the atmosphere. Shhhhh! noone is supposed to talk about the effect of volcanos, since they don't fit in the inconvient framework..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 The stuff that Mt. Saint Helens blows into the atmosphere does not let the sunlight through and reflects it back, actually causing the Earth to cool down. CO2 lets the sunlight through and does not let the heat escape causing the Earth to heat up. If the super volcano Yellowstone blows it will send the Earth into an ice age for 2000 years and eliminate the human race. It blows every 600,000 years and is 40,000 years overdue. Satellite readings indicate that Yellowstone is rising (buldging) about 1 foot every year. Mother nature has all the stuff in place to cure global warming, and us. JJK actually when it clears, about a month or so.... It has more carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, and everything else that causes the atmosphere much problems. I think for some reason that although we should not pollute and we are affecting the environment and earth as a whole, we are probably just getting out of an ice age since many of the parts of the world that are not near the ocean have fossilized animals that are aquatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brac Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Well, this whole blame the humans thing is crap, unless someone can tell me what the dinosuars did to cause the changes that wiped them out. There have been several ice ages and there will be several more..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Well, this whole blame the humans thing is crap, unless someone can tell me what the dinosuars did to cause the changes that wiped them out. There have been several ice ages and there will be several more..... I agree with you, but we're not helping the problem either ................... Future generations must learn from our mistakes ....... Sometimes I'm glad I'm old !!!!! Pro. Thump ............. No, on the wood pellets, haven't tried, probably won't ........... Thanx for the suggestion !!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 The population of the human race is out of proportion to the balance of climate....We can stop infesting this planet...But that wont happen...The climate will do that for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 propane ...doesn't have any "catalyst" Monoxide is the product of incomplete combustion ... also incredibly toxic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 what happened to the "quote" feature ..??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungkiman Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I think it was Bill Hicks that said "We are just a virus, with shoes." The human "race" has a finish line of extinction. Not all may agree, but I think we can do better. Now, I'm sure glad I changed to a high efficiency gas furnace. Three years from now? I'll hope to let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 The population of the human race is out of proportion to the balance of climate....We can stop infesting this planet...But that wont happen...The climate will do that for us. Are you volunteering to reduce the population by one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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