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I stayed in an unheated apartment this weekend in the mountains and it was truly cold. We ended up building a little tent over the bed with blankets. This make me realize that the curtained canopy bed may be making a comeback.
Installed solar power last year and an air source heat pump. My pellet burner is still going to be the main source of heat/hot water though. Got pellets at the start of the year (with only 80% premium over last year, now the prices are 3x of what they used to be ), have wood to offset use of pellets and even some coal [just in case]. Replaced every bulb with LEDs from IKEA. Set all rooms in the house to 18-19 c. Goin…
20c is incredibly warm. As a broke college kid living on the east coast we kept the furnace at 55F (13C) all winter. Wear a jacket. Double socks. Drink warm beverages. Get up and do some push-ups. If you’re reasonably young and healthy, you’ll survive.
I'm not. The lower limit of my comfort zone is 19c, anything colder and I can't work.
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Where is your outrage against Israel who shell and attack the Gaza strip and who steal land from the Palestinians in the West Bank? Where is your outrage when the USA attacks a foreign country with impunity and kills tens of thousands of "collateral damage" civillians in order to gain access to oil and gas resources or strategic trade routes or military positions? .... all i hear is your silence But when Russia does…
At least have the decency to not pretend that you actually care about the Palestinians or any other group of people suffering under oppression.
What i don't like is fake outrage and hypocrisy from Zelesnky zealots who seem "ok" with thousands of civilians dying because one actor/Prime Minister can't understand when he is beaten.
If Russia really wanted to, they have the arsenal to level and completely destroy the Ukraine and its infastructure, but they don't. Instead of understanding this fact, Zelesnky continues to "poke the bear" and continues this useless war with ever more fervor.
Sometimes you have to know when you are beaten for the greater good of your countries citizens.
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Amongst the many conceits of people like you is that there is such a thing as "enough". If only you give Putin X (Crimea, Donbas, Ukraine, Moldova, Baltics), he will calm down and everything will be alright. The only 'enough' an empire knows is when it collapses.
Where is your outrage against Israel who shell and attack the Gaza strip and who steal land from the Palestinians in the West Bank? Where is your outrage when the USA attacks a foreign country with impunity and kills tens of thousands of "collateral damage" civillians in order to gain access to oil and gas resources or strategic trade routes or military positions? .... all i hear is your silence But when Russia does…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where is your outrage against Israel who shell and attack the Gaza strip and who steal land from the Palestinians in the West Bank? Where is your outrage when the USA attacks a foreign country with impunity and kills tens of thousands of "collateral damage" civillians in order to gain access to oil and gas resources or strategic trade routes or military positions? .... all i hear is your silence But when Russia does…
At least have the decency to not pretend that you actually care about the Palestinians or any other group of people suffering under oppression.
Installed solar power last year and an air source heat pump. My pellet burner is still going to be the main source of heat/hot water though. Got pellets at the start of the year (with only 80% premium over last year, now the prices are 3x of what they used to be ), have wood to offset use of pellets and even some coal [just in case]. Replaced every bulb with LEDs from IKEA. Set all rooms in the house to 18-19 c. Goin…
In my case the problem is that I literally can’t work (meaning, program) if the temperature is less than 22C. Warm clothing, hot drinks, nothing helps. Tried many times. Hope that electric heating will still be legal.
Air source heat pump (split AC unit) is the way to go. Those things have efficiencies of 200-600%.
1. I live in a large three story townhouse. Admittedly too big for my family of 3. I’m going to leave the top floor unheated (I have under floor heating, so I can turn it off on a per room/floor basis).
2. Turn off my PC when not in use, and most other appliances.
3. Switch to a shower for my little one that enjoys the bathtub and hot water :-( and shorter showers for us adults.
4. Generally keep the temps lower than what we used to.
5. This summer I already replaced the radiators with under floor heating. I could not get hold of a air to water heat pump yet because eod the supply chain. At some point that will help close off Gas at home. Switched from Gas stove top to induction.
6. Solar panels will be installed in December/January(earliest I could get someone to install on the roof)!
Not sure what else I can do..
I stayed in an unheated apartment this weekend in the mountains and it was truly cold. We ended up building a little tent over the bed with blankets. This make me realize that the curtained canopy bed may be making a comeback.
Electric heating blanket works pretty well.
for heating energy, you can just get like i did several camping stove gas cartriges or just go off and buy a Propane tank, which will last very very long.