MaineJayhawk Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Man, you sure do pimp solar heat a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connecticut Appleman Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Last year we built a new house with really good insulation and buried 2-1000 gallon propane tanks. We used just over 400 gallons of propane from the beginning of February to mid-October. Cost us just over $500 to top off in October for the winter. It is well worth owning the propane tanks to make shopping for it possible where as with leasing, you are stuck with the company you leased from. We use the propane for heating, hot water and whole house generator. We also installed solar panels which we purchased, with a break even period of around 9 years. It sure is nice getting a monthly bill from Eversource for $10! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Just dropped my daughter of at Mansfield MS for driving test with TDA. Crazy early for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 10:25 AM, Baroclinic Zone said: Just dropped my daughter of at Mansfield MS for driving test with TDA. Crazy early for this. Expand What? That's absurd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Getting back to the whole internet in no man's land thing, why can't Mitch say he works from home and needs someone here to fix it immediately? Unless he already did that? I picture like that movie Funny Farm with Chevy Chase and the mail man. The cable guy just effs with poor Mitch. Drive's by, pretending to come and fix it only to peal out and laugh. I wonder if the schools there use rock walls for a chalk board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Exams are scheduled all day and by alphabetic order, we are 1st. Talked briefly with a women who’s done this before and said it’s a good thing as they get backed up during the day. This beats going to registry and have state police administer the test. It’s busy here. Easily 1/2 dozen TDA academy cars. I’d recommend to anyone with a kid ready to drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 11:42 AM, CoastalWx said: Getting back to the whole internet in no man's land thing, why can't Mitch say he works from home and needs someone here to fix it immediately? Unless he already did that? I picture like that movie Funny Farm with Chevy Chase and the mail man. The cable guy just effs with poor Mitch. Drive's by, pretending to come and fix it only to peal out and laugh. I wonder if the schools there use rock walls for a chalk board? Expand You didn't read the responses in the other thread I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 12:05 PM, Ginx snewx said: You didn't read the responses in the other thread I guess. Expand Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 The light snow last night really made for a scenic sunrise 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 11:44 AM, Baroclinic Zone said: Exams are scheduled all day and by alphabetic order, we are 1st. Talked briefly with a women who’s done this before and said it’s a good thing as they get backed up during the day. This beats going to registry and have state police administer the test. It’s busy here. Easily 1/2 dozen TDA academy cars. I’d recommend to anyone with a kid ready to drive Expand Look out world. Lol congrats man, really frees up your time when they become independent. Makes ya nervous the first couple of months but overall it's a good step towards their independence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 12:07 PM, alex said: The light snow last night really made for a scenic sunrise Expand I imagine the skiing has become good. Perfect Christmas week weather too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 12:11 PM, Ginx snewx said: I imagine the skiing has become good. Perfect Christmas week weather too. Expand Yes the 9” we got made a huge difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 We’ve had rime ice on the trees in the valley with freezing fog the past two nights. The inversion going on has been insane! Day two of stout inversion. Yesterday the highs at the ASOS were all 13F to 15F....the high at Mansfield was 28F. The summit was beautiful near 30F while it was an icebox in town. Last night it dropped only to 16F at the summit, but -8F here at home. Here’s a photo from yesterday from my coworker above the frigid cold: 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/20/2019 at 9:33 PM, BrianW said: Maine is aggressively deploying heat pumps and has incentives for them. Here is an interesting article on it. Didn't realize they had soo many installed. I also attached a performance graph of how newer units can achieve some impressive cold weather performance. My unit can put out its full rated heat all the way to almost -20 before capacity drops. Maine is the most heating-oil-dependent state in the country. More than 60 percent of the state’s 550,000 households rely on heating oil as their primary energy source for heat. But because a little more than half of the electricity generated in Maine already comes from zero-carbon hydropower and wind power — and legislation signed yesterday sets a 100 percent renewable electricity target for 2050 — a rapid shift to electric heat could deliver significant emissions reductions. It should also save households and businesses money. Expand Maine has probably the poorest access to natural gas in the lower 48, hence its use of heating oil (and firewood.) Hydropower is somewhat controversial in the state currently, due to the proposed PQ hydro corridor - lots of info flying around, but the thought of all that juice flowing thru the state with none going directly to its residents doesn't play well in the optics game. Maine burns a lot of biomass as well. Tough economics for a stand-alone biomass-gen plant, but when it's co-gen with a pulp or sawmill the finances look a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Just spent a good hour cleaning all the branches and debris knocked down. Much easier to do on top of snowcover than mud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 1:55 PM, powderfreak said: We’ve had rime ice on the trees in the valley with freezing fog the past two nights. The inversion going on has been insane! Day two of stout inversion. Yesterday the highs at the ASOS were all 13F to 15F....the high at Mansfield was 28F. The summit was beautiful near 30F while it was an icebox in town. Last night it dropped only to 16F at the summit, but -8F here at home. Here’s a photo from yesterday from my coworker above the frigid cold: Expand Would you call those underdogs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Up to 25F. Was hoping for warmer today, but meh mixing and high overcast ruined that. Lots of Christmas COC this week though. A white Christmas is pretty much locked in here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Pond hockey today. First time I’ve seen it this early around here, even in a shallow pond. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 11:42 AM, CoastalWx said: Getting back to the whole internet in no man's land thing, why can't Mitch say he works from home and needs someone here to fix it immediately? Unless he already did that? I picture like that movie Funny Farm with Chevy Chase and the mail man. The cable guy just effs with poor Mitch. Drive's by, pretending to come and fix it only to peal out and laugh. I wonder if the schools there use rock walls for a chalk board? Expand In my wife’s building, it is not far from that. The building isn’t that old and they have some decent technology. But without fast internet a lot of that is useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 9:16 PM, CoastalWx said: Pond hockey today. First time I’ve seen it this early around here, even in a shallow pond. Expand Stay safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 9:16 PM, CoastalWx said: Pond hockey today. First time I’ve seen it this early around here, even in a shallow pond. Expand Scott, NH large lakes have just stated to skim over in the bays. This may lead to really dangerous conditions with warmer weather upcoming. Lots of vacationers coming up from SNE this week and they may not realize the ice is not thick on the big, deeper lakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 9:33 PM, wxeyeNH said: Scott, NH large lakes have just stated to skim over in the bays. This may lead to really dangerous conditions with warmer weather upcoming. Lots of vacationers coming up from SNE this week and they may not realize the ice is not thick on the big, deeper lakes. Expand I would not venture out on anything deep. This is a shallow pond, virtually a swamp in summer. But I was impressed to see people on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 9:28 PM, HoarfrostHubb said: In my wife’s building, it is not far from that. The building isn’t that old and they have some decent technology. But without fast internet a lot of that is useless Expand I didn’t know she was a teacher too? Good for you guys. Sounds like a topic for debate in school committee meetings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 9:42 PM, CoastalWx said: I didn’t know she was a teacher too? Good for you guys. Sounds like a topic for debate in school committee meetings. Expand It’s not a school committee thing. The whole down doesn’t have it. I think part of it is that they are rather remote with less than 1500 people. Companies don’t want to run the lines out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 10:11 PM, HoarfrostHubb said: It’s not a school committee thing. The whole down doesn’t have it. I think part of it is that they are rather remote with less than 1500 people. Companies don’t want to run the lines out there. Expand I wonder if they have to have one of the companies have a monopoly. That is, they agree to run lines if they are the only provider? When that happens, they can sponsor technology like that. I honestly don’t know. What town is she teaching in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 10:11 PM, HoarfrostHubb said: It’s not a school committee thing. The whole down doesn’t have it. I think part of it is that they are rather remote with less than 1500 people. Companies don’t want to run the lines out there. Expand How far is the nearest Internet? Can you create an air bridge from there? If the companies won;t run the backbone, that could be an alternative. You'd need a high spot on either end but you can go 20-30 miles between points. The best part is once you do that you can offer Internet service to everyone around the school. How abut cellular service? I think AT&T & Verizon have rural Internet service packages. It's more limited, but would give you Internet access. Even if the cellular signal is weak, you can use external antenna's to improve the signal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 10:20 PM, CoastalWx said: I wonder if they have to have one of the companies have a monopoly. That is, they agree to run lines if they are the only provider? When that happens, they can sponsor technology like that. I honestly don’t know. What town is she teaching in? Expand Here in CT when the cable companies were running lines in the 80s they were forced to provide service to streets/towns in rural areas to avoid what happened in Mass. The cable companies were told that if they wanted to provide service to Town X, they had to also provide service to Town Y even if it only had a few hundred customers. The same thing happened in towns like Stafford where most people live in the center of town (Stafford Springs). If they wanted to provide service to Stafford Springs, they had to run lines down all roads in town. Now every town and road has Internet. I honestly don't know why Mass. didn't do that. It's not like these places are truly remote like in the High Plains or Rocky Mountains. In a lot of cases we're only talking about 10-20 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 11:57 PM, MetHerb said: How far is the nearest Internet? Can you create an air bridge from there? If the companies won;t run the backbone, that could be an alternative. You'd need a high spot on either end but you can go 20-30 miles between points. The best part is once you do that you can offer Internet service to everyone around the school. How abut cellular service? I think AT&T & Verizon have rural Internet service packages. It's more limited, but would give you Internet access. Even if the cellular signal is weak, you can use external antenna's to improve the signal. Expand I have no idea. There are a number of towns that either have no broadband or it just got put in. Very weird for such a progressive state. Even Princeton,MA just got it in the last year or two and you can see Boston from there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 On 12/22/2019 at 12:18 AM, HoarfrostHubb said: I have no idea. There are a number of towns that either have no broadband or it just got put in. Very weird for such a progressive state. Even Princeton,MA just got it in the last year or two and you can see Boston from there Expand They would rather raise your gas tax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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