No, really: A wood furnace should not emit any smoke (or any other combustion product) into a house, just as a gas furnace should not emit CO (or any other combustion product) into a house...unless it is horribly broken.
Google "heat exchanger" sometime. Or maybe even just "furnace." (And if you're really Google-rific, also look into "fireplace" and "wood stove.") Thx.
You're either spoiled with too much money, or your view is clouded by visions of future payoffs decades from now, or some sick combination of both where you're both poor and banking on risk.
(And of course, the failed compressor could not have been costing you extra due to some other reason, like low refrigerant or just plain bad installation , even as it tried (expensively!) to keep your house cool.)
(Hey, you know what also saves money? Well-maintained equipment!)
Contamination? Sheesh. Look at how an HVAC system is laid out sometime, -including- the oil sump at the bottom. What contamination? Part of an O-ring? Maaybe? This is stuff that can be cleaned out in a few minutes time once the system is opened.
You were sold a bill of goods, IMHO. Glad it is working for you. I'm sure you'll also enjoy replacing your Prius the first time it needs new spark plugs, while telling how much money you saved by dumping the 2-year-old Aud that is still hung around your neck.
(And hey, just listen #1540845: Most of us don't have $17k to drop on HVAC replacements for our house. Especially in an article about wood-burning stoves. We fix what we've got, and endeavor to persevere).
My existing shower head is a similar conglomeration of rubber nipples. The only difference between what you picture is a gooseneck arm, and $42 that I haven't yet spent.
I'm happier with it being de-restricted ("restored") than I was with it being restricted.
Perhaps you might disassemble your own shower head, find the purposeful restriction, and set that restrictor aside for a few days. You might be surprised at what you like. (also: a perfectly normal and adjustable restriction is called a "valve". Most showers do not have one these days that limits total flow, for no good reason that I can ascertain, but they are available: It doesn't have to be all or nothing. The last time I bought a shower-head valve, it was a lovely quarter-turn ball valve, in bright chrome, for $5.99 from Menards. It worked great.)
(For my purposes, I get about an hour in the shower with my common gas water heater, usually, without said $5.99 valve. And realistically, I still don't want the EPA to tell me how fast my water can come out of a spigot, and my opinion will remain unchanged for as long as I continue to buy water buy the gallon. (If I had well water from my own well in a non-contentious area, I'd be REALLY PISSED. But I'm just annoyed and having fun ruining Federal regulation with a wrench and a pick, and enjoying my superior showers and hand-washing.))
Oh, I have a new toilet as of a bit over a half-decade ago: It works a treat. It is a very small (small-offset) American Standard Cadet (II? III? I forget), with a 2 1/4" widget.
The plunger has been used no more than a half dozen times (average of about once a year?) in that time, whereas it was previously used more than once a week.
It allegedly uses less water than "old" toilets. I'm OK with that, in theory. (I have not noticed it on my water bill, but then I changed houses at the same time I installed the new toilet.)
Showerhead? I'll check out "rainwater." I hope I am surprised. (I doubt I will be: Washing long hair/scrubbing the funk out of one's ass, and flushing toilets are rather different things. But I -will- give it a shot.)
Sure, yeah. Math is funny like that. How many Horsepower-Fortnights are in a Pound of Air?
(Before you discount this question: Consider "what air," "what pound," and "where," and "when.")
Meanwhile, please get back to me when the "article" relates to how one should best operate a wood stove in a way that a common wood stove user can easily grasp, and I'll be all ears.
Were the old units actually broken beyond repair, or were you told that they were FUBAR, or did you just decide to upgrade?
(I mean, in terms of perspective: $17k is close to a third of what I paid for my 2,700 ft^2 house, and the land it sits on. I simply cannot imagine spending $17k on HVAC, ever...and I have rooms in my house that I don't see for months at a time.)
FWIW, around here, VZW has excellent coverage, and I really have no complaints about that at all. Every other carrier is a mixture of failure. (NW Ohio, which is all fairly well populated even once you get off of the beaten path. It's a hard place to cover even though it is ruler-flat, because the density is neither great enough for a large number of very small cells to make sense, nor can it be adequately covered with a smaller number of big cells due to usage. VZW seems to have figured out how to adequately cover this somewhat unusual population density, while nobody else has.)
I'll take my evil geopositional not-data any day, over zero coverage where I happen to be any other day.:-/
And back in context: This isn't Seattle, there is no public-ish Wifi to be exploited, and so I just don't care.:)
Intertek, who apparently prepared this slideshow (article? HAHAHA: "Disjointed powerpoint clusterfuck" would be more accurate) lost me completely when they referred to the "pounds" of "air" required for good combustion.
Nope, sorry. I'll make up my own lies if I want something other than truth, thanks!
Dude: You -saved- $2000 a year on air conditioning?
What were you paying before?
What are you paying now?
WTF are you doing wrong, where "saving" $2000 on air conditioning is even -possible-? That's $166 a month less! Where are you, Ecuador?
(Disclaimer: I've never spent $2000, or $166/mo, on air conditioning in a year, and therefore it is impossible for me to save $2000, or $166/mo on air conditioning in a year.
But I also open my windows when it is nice outside, especially at night, and close them and the drapes in the morning before it gets hot outside, and I choose not to air condition my entire house during the hot months, but instead just the few rooms where it is actually important.)
Around 15 years ago, the EPA decided to start restricting how much water (in gallons-per-minute) we could extract from our faucets and shower heads.
Incidentally, also around 15 years ago, I began learning how to disable, modify and/or destroy the flow restrictors in faucets and shower heads. I've been doing it ever since.
So if I want a wood stove of my liking, I'll have me a wood stove of my liking. (Thankyouverymuch.)
As long as we're generalizing with wild assertions:
You know what else takes about 10 years off your life expectancy?
Slaving away at a stressful job that you don't have your heart in during the winter months, largely just to make money to pay someone far away to refine/convert/combust some manner of fossil fuel into "natural gas" or "electricity..." just to stay warm for the few hours a day that you actually get to be at home.
Who knows what it can detect. It -reports- the cell that I'm on, and the signal strength of that cell.
It cannot (or at least, does not) report anything else, without Wifi or GPS (I forgot to mention it before, but GPS obviously doesn't work well indoors and it's a massive battery-suck).
And that's not enough data to determine if I'm safely at home, and the Wifi is safe to turn on: On a 2D plot, this data can (at very best) produce a broad line, but never a point.
It's generally good enough for Weatherbug to give me storm warnings, and for various mapping things to give me directions from where I am (in -very- vague terms) and checking local take-out reviews when I'm out of town, and that's about it.
If Wifi is off (because the whole point is that Wifi is off), and GPS is off (because, you know, we don't like being tracked), then what other "conditions" does it have other than cellular?
If there's some reason this can't be done, I'm curious to know what it is.
Because....you can't get there from here because that's all buried in the baseband firmware and VZW says "No"? Because no matter what, it always only reports that there is either exactly one or zero towers within earshot?
Because, even with their incarnation of LTE (which is loosely based on existing GSM methods), each tower reports its location as being 0,0 lat, lon? So even if you glean a unique identifier for it, you still need a local database and/or IP access to some third party's database in order to figure out even where that uniquely-identified tower physically resides?
In other words: Because VZW consists of a bunch of cocks who have purposefully broken all of this obvious, and in many cases pre-existing, functionality at every possible layer?
Llama looks neat, but it also looks like a non-starter for VZW: "Llama uses phone masts to determine your location"
Attempting to locating oneself using Verizon towers alone only gets, at best, the approximate location of the tower itself, and never that of the handset.
You forgot how we didn't have troops in body armor during our first invasion of Iraq. You might have also forgot that we didn't armor HMMWVs back then, either.
But I don't know Bruce Schneier from a hole in the ground, and the only thing I know about Truecrypt is that the folks who make it say it is secure (or, perhaps in the future, pay for audits, wherein it is proclaimed secure).
The circle of trust is very, very short here.
Studies have shown that studies are easily skewed by money.
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Dude:
Some people are so worried about YESTERDAY that they cannot fathom entering into an agreement for TOMORROW.
Not everyone is cashflow-positive.
No, really: A wood furnace should not emit any smoke (or any other combustion product) into a house, just as a gas furnace should not emit CO (or any other combustion product) into a house...unless it is horribly broken.
Google "heat exchanger" sometime. Or maybe even just "furnace." (And if you're really Google-rific, also look into "fireplace" and "wood stove.") Thx.
You've now invoked Godwin's Law.
Your move.
May I direct you to: Can a Candle Burn in Zero Gravity?
(The short answer is "yes, but strangely.")
See also: Video (shot with a Russian potato) of a candle burning on Mir.
Right, I get it:
You're either spoiled with too much money, or your view is clouded by visions of future payoffs decades from now, or some sick combination of both where you're both poor and banking on risk.
(And of course, the failed compressor could not have been costing you extra due to some other reason, like low refrigerant or just plain bad installation , even as it tried (expensively!) to keep your house cool.)
(Hey, you know what also saves money? Well-maintained equipment!)
Contamination? Sheesh. Look at how an HVAC system is laid out sometime, -including- the oil sump at the bottom. What contamination? Part of an O-ring? Maaybe? This is stuff that can be cleaned out in a few minutes time once the system is opened.
You were sold a bill of goods, IMHO. Glad it is working for you. I'm sure you'll also enjoy replacing your Prius the first time it needs new spark plugs, while telling how much money you saved by dumping the 2-year-old Aud that is still hung around your neck.
(And hey, just listen #1540845: Most of us don't have $17k to drop on HVAC replacements for our house. Especially in an article about wood-burning stoves. We fix what we've got, and endeavor to persevere).
Hmm.
My existing shower head is a similar conglomeration of rubber nipples. The only difference between what you picture is a gooseneck arm, and $42 that I haven't yet spent.
I'm happier with it being de-restricted ("restored") than I was with it being restricted.
Perhaps you might disassemble your own shower head, find the purposeful restriction, and set that restrictor aside for a few days. You might be surprised at what you like. (also: a perfectly normal and adjustable restriction is called a "valve". Most showers do not have one these days that limits total flow, for no good reason that I can ascertain, but they are available: It doesn't have to be all or nothing. The last time I bought a shower-head valve, it was a lovely quarter-turn ball valve, in bright chrome, for $5.99 from Menards. It worked great.)
(For my purposes, I get about an hour in the shower with my common gas water heater, usually, without said $5.99 valve. And realistically, I still don't want the EPA to tell me how fast my water can come out of a spigot, and my opinion will remain unchanged for as long as I continue to buy water buy the gallon. (If I had well water from my own well in a non-contentious area, I'd be REALLY PISSED. But I'm just annoyed and having fun ruining Federal regulation with a wrench and a pick, and enjoying my superior showers and hand-washing.))
Heh.
You're a funny guy. We'll do this again when you're more forthcoming of your personal details.
Oh, I have a new toilet as of a bit over a half-decade ago: It works a treat. It is a very small (small-offset) American Standard Cadet (II? III? I forget), with a 2 1/4" widget.
The plunger has been used no more than a half dozen times (average of about once a year?) in that time, whereas it was previously used more than once a week.
It allegedly uses less water than "old" toilets. I'm OK with that, in theory. (I have not noticed it on my water bill, but then I changed houses at the same time I installed the new toilet.)
Showerhead? I'll check out "rainwater." I hope I am surprised. (I doubt I will be: Washing long hair/scrubbing the funk out of one's ass, and flushing toilets are rather different things. But I -will- give it a shot.)
I work with law enforcement every day. Many of them are doing the same things.
(Tell me again about the arsenic levels in your water supply. I need your address to verify.)
Sure, yeah. Math is funny like that. How many Horsepower-Fortnights are in a Pound of Air?
(Before you discount this question: Consider "what air," "what pound," and "where," and "when.")
Meanwhile, please get back to me when the "article" relates to how one should best operate a wood stove in a way that a common wood stove user can easily grasp, and I'll be all ears.
Were the old units actually broken beyond repair, or were you told that they were FUBAR, or did you just decide to upgrade?
(I mean, in terms of perspective: $17k is close to a third of what I paid for my 2,700 ft^2 house, and the land it sits on. I simply cannot imagine spending $17k on HVAC, ever...and I have rooms in my house that I don't see for months at a time.)
Them's the rubs.
FWIW, around here, VZW has excellent coverage, and I really have no complaints about that at all. Every other carrier is a mixture of failure. (NW Ohio, which is all fairly well populated even once you get off of the beaten path. It's a hard place to cover even though it is ruler-flat, because the density is neither great enough for a large number of very small cells to make sense, nor can it be adequately covered with a smaller number of big cells due to usage. VZW seems to have figured out how to adequately cover this somewhat unusual population density, while nobody else has.)
I'll take my evil geopositional not-data any day, over zero coverage where I happen to be any other day. :-/
And back in context: This isn't Seattle, there is no public-ish Wifi to be exploited, and so I just don't care. :)
Intertek, who apparently prepared this slideshow (article? HAHAHA: "Disjointed powerpoint clusterfuck" would be more accurate) lost me completely when they referred to the "pounds" of "air" required for good combustion.
Nope, sorry. I'll make up my own lies if I want something other than truth, thanks!
Dude: You -saved- $2000 a year on air conditioning?
What were you paying before?
What are you paying now?
WTF are you doing wrong, where "saving" $2000 on air conditioning is even -possible-? That's $166 a month less! Where are you, Ecuador?
(Disclaimer: I've never spent $2000, or $166/mo, on air conditioning in a year, and therefore it is impossible for me to save $2000, or $166/mo on air conditioning in a year.
But I also open my windows when it is nice outside, especially at night, and close them and the drapes in the morning before it gets hot outside, and I choose not to air condition my entire house during the hot months, but instead just the few rooms where it is actually important.)
Around 15 years ago, the EPA decided to start restricting how much water (in gallons-per-minute) we could extract from our faucets and shower heads.
Incidentally, also around 15 years ago, I began learning how to disable, modify and/or destroy the flow restrictors in faucets and shower heads. I've been doing it ever since.
So if I want a wood stove of my liking, I'll have me a wood stove of my liking. (Thankyouverymuch.)
As long as we're generalizing with wild assertions:
You know what else takes about 10 years off your life expectancy?
Slaving away at a stressful job that you don't have your heart in during the winter months, largely just to make money to pay someone far away to refine/convert/combust some manner of fossil fuel into "natural gas" or "electricity..." just to stay warm for the few hours a day that you actually get to be at home.
Who knows what it can detect. It -reports- the cell that I'm on, and the signal strength of that cell.
It cannot (or at least, does not) report anything else, without Wifi or GPS (I forgot to mention it before, but GPS obviously doesn't work well indoors and it's a massive battery-suck).
And that's not enough data to determine if I'm safely at home, and the Wifi is safe to turn on: On a 2D plot, this data can (at very best) produce a broad line, but never a point.
It's generally good enough for Weatherbug to give me storm warnings, and for various mapping things to give me directions from where I am (in -very- vague terms) and checking local take-out reviews when I'm out of town, and that's about it.
If Wifi is off (because the whole point is that Wifi is off), and GPS is off (because, you know, we don't like being tracked), then what other "conditions" does it have other than cellular?
Because....you can't get there from here because that's all buried in the baseband firmware and VZW says "No"? Because no matter what, it always only reports that there is either exactly one or zero towers within earshot?
Because, even with their incarnation of LTE (which is loosely based on existing GSM methods), each tower reports its location as being 0,0 lat, lon? So even if you glean a unique identifier for it, you still need a local database and/or IP access to some third party's database in order to figure out even where that uniquely-identified tower physically resides?
In other words: Because VZW consists of a bunch of cocks who have purposefully broken all of this obvious, and in many cases pre-existing, functionality at every possible layer?
(I take it that you don't live in the US.)
Running over a tow hitch on the highway is not a "major accident." It's just an accident.
Ladies and gentleman, may I please present The Faraday Bag.
Llama looks neat, but it also looks like a non-starter for VZW: "Llama uses phone masts to determine your location"
Attempting to locating oneself using Verizon towers alone only gets, at best, the approximate location of the tower itself, and never that of the handset.
You forgot how we didn't have troops in body armor during our first invasion of Iraq. You might have also forgot that we didn't armor HMMWVs back then, either.
Which brings us back to the original question:
Who watches the watchers?
How would we even know if it was botched?
But I don't know Bruce Schneier from a hole in the ground, and the only thing I know about Truecrypt is that the folks who make it say it is secure (or, perhaps in the future, pay for audits, wherein it is proclaimed secure).
The circle of trust is very, very short here.
Studies have shown that studies are easily skewed by money.