Drewlb

joined 2 years ago
[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Wasn't that 24 yrs ago before his election in Nov 1999?

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are nano bags?

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Key to this is identical ducts socks. No more sorting

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

When I was looking at new heat pumps the hybrid ones were between 500 & 1000 more than the equivalent electric ones.

It's not a sperate unit, it just has a gas heater in place of the electric supplemental coils.

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There are heat pumps now that use gas to do the supplemental heat. Those are the best possible option. They are equally efficient to a gas furnace when supplementing, and even cheaper when not.

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Interesting. A close friend is an engineer who designs HVAC systems (industrial but regardless knowledgeable).

He's told me that the heat pump would pull more power on those days than an equivalent electric only system.

My heat pump definitely uses a lot of power when it's cold.

I wish I had access to the gas based supplemental heating for it. Economically that seems like the best option.

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The argument is bullshit in totality. But... When the supplemental electric heating coils come on, it is less efficient ON THAT DAY, than the alternative electric options. But, like I said, in totality, it's more effective over a month, and certainly better over the course of a year. It's a matter of people with an agenda cherry picking the 9 days a year in which it is less efficient and pretending that the other 354 days don't count.

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That ended in 1986

[–] Drewlb@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Actually, before 1986 and the Hughes Amendment, anyone could buy an automatic weapon in Walmart (idk if Walmart sold them, but legally they could). After 86 they became effectively impossible to get (takes months for extensive background checks and costs more than a car)