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Topic: Greenwood Furnance? Looks Awesome - Anyone Own One? |
sysfce2
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:25 am Subject: Re: Greenwood Furnance? Looks Awesome - Anyone Own One? |
"Max. Sustained Firebox Temperature of 2000 degrees"
Seems wrong. Iron begins to glow red around 900-1,000 degrees, as any long time wood stove owner can tell you. It would seem odd to have a boiler ... |
Topic: Greenwood Furnance? Looks Awesome - Anyone Own One? |
sysfce2
Replies: 9
Views: 1692
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:44 pm Subject: Re: Greenwood Furnance? Looks Awesome - Anyone Own One? |
Defeats the purpose of have a high efficiency heat source when you have to throw away half your heat because its too much for the house to absorb.
That's why the high efficiency (or any really) wood ... |
Topic: national I.D. card - just add prez signature. |
sysfce2
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Views: 1872
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:24 pm Subject: Re: national I.D. card - just add prez signature. |
It's time someone started marketing lead wallets isn't it?
RFID is surely blockable by some means.Try [url=http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8cdd/]here.
They also have a RFID blocking [u ... |
Topic: Dual-Fuel Wood-Oil Boiler |
sysfce2
Replies: 10
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:09 pm Subject: Re: Dual-Fuel Wood-Oil Boiler |
[url=http://woodboilers.com/home-heating-systems.asp]HS Tarm
I've been looking at these ones - they're very efficient with wood (80%) and clean burning (wood gasification) and reasonably efficient ... |
Topic: The Power of Prayer in Peak Oil |
sysfce2
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:45 pm Subject: Re: The Power of Prayer in Peak Oil |
Especially as I'm not aware of any New Testament statements condemning homosexuality.
Uh, not to say there isn't any Old Testament statements about homosexuality, but don't most of the quotes used ... |
Topic: THE Gasoline Price Thread (merged) |
sysfce2
Replies: 359
Views: 7468
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:13 am Subject: Re: Gas prices are up close to $3 in most places in Californ |
| It would be in the interest and power of oil companies to encourage a fewer station model on the national level. More stations in industry hands... Profit? That may be part of the equation. Less real ... |
Topic: Abnormal warmth as far out as they can see . . . |
sysfce2
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Forum: Environment Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:04 pm Subject: Re: Abnormal warmth as far out as they can see . . . |
| It was 6.7 below zero last night at my house. The wind was blowing. It sure feels like winter here now. I wonder how long it will last. It's not supposed to warm up much for a couple of weeks. Maybe t ... |
Topic: Why is nuclear waste disposal so hard? |
sysfce2
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Forum: Environment Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:01 am Subject: Re: Why is nuclear waste disposal so hard? |
I say we can drop it into a deep dark mine shaft in the Canadian Shield. Hardly any people thereabouts, those rocks of the shield have been around for billions of years,very geologically stable.
I' ... |
Topic: Good sources for statistics? |
sysfce2
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:28 pm Subject: Re: Good sources for statistics? |
| If you're willing to look up data on countries individually, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org]wikipedia isn't a bad place to start - at least you can find quite a few links to relevent information, depen ... |
Topic: CONTRAILS, CLOUDS & GLOBAL WARMING |
sysfce2
Replies: 14
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Forum: Environment Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:51 pm Subject: Re: CONTRAILS, CLOUDS & GLOBAL WARMING |
Does anybody know how many commercial jet airliners are currently in operation worldwide, including the newer, smaller "commuter" jets like the Embraers?
No luck for me by Googling...
[url=http:// ... |
Topic: THE Energy Efficiency & Appliance Thread (merged) |
sysfce2
Replies: 322
Views: 6166
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:11 pm Subject: Re: Refrigerator efficiency |
| The bottom freezer fridges appear to be a step in the right direction. The typical fridge dumps most of the cold air every time you open the door. An obvious improvement is to drop the obsolete doo ... |
Topic: Legal question regarding Silver |
sysfce2
Replies: 5
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:42 pm Subject: Re: Legal question regarding Silver |
What percentage of silver is the shot etc.? I would think that the only thing you really could get in trouble with is trying to sell a 75% silver ingot as the standard 99.9% silver ingot...  |
Topic: Color Blindness? |
sysfce2
Replies: 7
Views: 1068
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:51 pm Subject: Re: Color Blindness? |
Does anyone here know if colorblindness is a desqualifier for electrical work? Or is anyone here a colorblind electrician? I am very willing and able to adapt....
I understand that you have to be a ... |
Topic: Are you hoarding fuel? |
sysfce2
Replies: 47
Views: 3953
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:35 pm Subject: Re: Are you hoarding fuel? |
| I'm filling my gas tank when it gets half empty. I also put a locking cap on even though I realize if someone really wants my gas, they'll punch a hole in the tank. It's just one of those things that ... |
Topic: THE Canada Thread (merged) |
sysfce2
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:33 pm Subject: Re: Interesting ad campaign in Canada |
| Since a large portion of Canadian heat is either forced air via natural gas, or electric heat, this seems to suggest that the natural gas and hydro markets are getting too tight to be sustained, and h ... |
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