Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

I know the original oil burner on the farmhouse growing up was a coal conversion, with coal apparently shoveled down a chute through a window.
then Mr Beckett came to town and stayed.
Have never heated with coal.

and because I had a Depression era Dad, i was threatened with a lump of coal for Christmas if I wasn't good. I think he did wrap up a chunk one year...

I wish we could heat with steam from a trash to steam plant burning the Grows Landfill in Lower Bucks.
Make it go away instead of piling it higher.
We have the technology to do this, we don't have the will power.

what happens when all the landfills meet each other?

 

[riptides]

Hope all are warm, safe and where they want to be.

Wife is in private room and may be discharged in a day or so. We have been here before so no big deal. Miss my girls though. Docs said all went well. Just need clean bill of health from pathology. Double vision was an issue last night....to many drugs. Neurologist was called in and still checked out good.

Me...had fun trekking the ice storm in Batimore. Wow...impressive momma nature.

Merry Christmas to you all. Enjoy your time with family and friends.

 

[Buppies]

Interesting tid bit I do not ever remember this being put out locally reduce power consumption or rolling blackouts will occur. Hard to do as our power is out.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Interesting tid bit I do not ever remember this being put out locally reduce power consumption or rolling blackouts will occur. Hard to do as our power is out.

Hope power comes on soon.

 

[daugen]

prayers for your wife Rip and hope she is home soon.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain.

Not sure what I’ll get into today, maybe that trip to town that didn’t happen yesterday. Good chance I’ll err on side of energy conservation though

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[KilroyJC]

One good thing about this cold snap is we are finding all the places that need to be re-caulked. . .

Does anyone have any recommendations on a decent thermal imager? I don’t need a $15G one, just something that I can look for the air leaks.

 

[gstrom99]

One good thing about this cold snap is we are finding all the places that need to be re-caulked. . .

Does anyone have any recommendations on a decent thermal imager? I don’t need a $15G one, just something that I can look for the air leaks.

With our 50 mph winds and -15 degree temp, all I need is my finger (not even wet) to see where the cold is coming in. This 100 year old house still leaks a bit, even with insulation and new "good" windows.

 

[riptides]

With our 50 mph winds and -15 degree temp, all I need is my finger (not even wet) to see where the cold is coming in. This 100 year old house still leaks a bit, even with insulation and new "good" windows.

My house has the chimney effect. From the foundation to the roof the walls are framed straight up. No breaks for floors.

 

[m7040]

We burned coal in the basement furnace since it was built for oil/wood and coal. But must have caused some residual in the air and it made wife very congested so stopped it.
On trash burning I had the O&M contract for several years for the Semass plant in MAS built by Bechtel. We did set up a recovery system for coins found in the ash and recovered if I remember right about 100000 dollars a year.
It is amazing what people throw out without realizing it. In 10000 tons a day of trash going up the conveyer I was alway looking for a jackpot of some kind
Also got tired of replacing the roof over the pulverizers because of explosions from gas cans propane dynamite who knows what. So changed it to canvas and had several ready to go.

SEMASS | Reworld

Located in West Wareham, Massachusetts, the Southeastern Massachusetts (SEMASS) Resource Recovery Facility is an award-winning sustainable waste facility.

www.covanta.com

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!!!! 46F @ 5:00AM. Partly cloudy. High 58F. Winds light and variable.
Looks like nice weather for the weekend, but rain starts Monday night and lasts through the end of the 10-day.

Hope everyone is staying warm in this horrible weather.

I've got a Coleman stove just like that, KJC, and a modern, propane version, too. I've used the propane version during previous summer power outages, resting it atop the propane stove. With no power, the safety solenoid in the range won't flow any propane.

Refilled the hummingbird feeders yesterday. There are a dozen or so that are wintering here, more than I've ever seen before.

Spent most of yesterday taking apart another brush pile, limbing the trees, and stacking the logs. The slash went on the burn pile, which stayed lit all day. I'm hoping there are enough coals left this morning that it'll fire up again without any help from me. I need to refill some propane bottles this morning, then it's back to limbing and stacking. Probably need to fuel up the tractor today as well.

Hope everyone enjoys their Christmas weekend...

The white gas version will work in lower temperatures than propane stoves/lanterns will, and sometimes, even if you get the propane to light, the evaporation in the tank will drop the temp enough that it won’t evaporate anymore, even if there is no regulator.

 

[KilroyJC]

My house has the chimney effect. From the foundation to the roof the walls are framed straight up. No breaks for floors.

Great for pulling wires, terrible if there is a fire. . .

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning to all and Merry Christmas Eve!
Low was a nice 23°, dew point is -25.6° ---- no chance of precip with that! No wind except for light breezes.

Hope everyone is able to tolerate the cold temps / snow / freezing rain. Sounds nasty for sure! Stay safe out there!

KP went well, the infamous homemade pierogies are done! Tough job for the wifey, but mmmm, mmm, good! Ham has defrosted, so ready to go tomorrow.

Wifey would like some fried chicken for dinner tonight.... not set in stone yet, maybe some Chinese take out instead.

Son and 2 GS's will be over later evening and then again tomorrow. We will do videochat with the rest of the family tomorrow.

Hope everyone has a chance for last minute prep and has a peaceful day!

FA RA RA RA RA

 

[m7040]

We built also several plants that burned waste coal that was left over from mining of coal and I had the O&M contract for the Gilberton plant Frackville PA. The owner of the plant Johnny Rich had a huge building down the street with veteran cars and full time mechanics. it was not open to the public but he let me visit often. Always was interesting. Not sure what happened to his collection?

 

[ronjhall]

Riptide, prayers for your wife.

 

[KilroyJC]

Interesting tid bit I do not ever remember this being put out locally reduce power consumption or rolling blackouts will occur. Hard to do as our power is out.

Hope you get up and running quickly!

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning, sun is out and it's up to 9 degrees and windy, still.
Made it to the light show, trees with lights were certainly dancing!

Kilroy - I have one of those green coleman stoves downstairs from our family camping trips as a child.

PopG - sounds like a winter adventure, one zone with a greenhouse? Good save. Glad puppy found comfy place.

Happy birthday to the Wife BEF!

RipTides - glad wife is out of surgery and all looks well.

Doors were frozen shut on truck, remote start to the rescue.

Today prep for tomorrow and eve with friends, been going over their house Christmas eve since my wife and I started dating. I think we missed one year while traveling, watched their kids grow up.

Day after Christmas with BIL. So pretty quiet this year.

Presents are wrapped!

Be Well and have a Merry Christmas

 

[LouNY]

I'm fortunate to have several heating options, my primary main source is an oil fired hot water boiler, I also have a coal insert in my fireplace that I normally use for an auxiliary unit to reduce my oil by about 50%, then I also have a couple of 36,000 BTU mini-splits for moderate temperature.
Then the 25 KW generator for when the power fails. As well as the catalytic propane heaters for the grill bottles. Very handy when the power is out for spot heating in basements for plumbing.
This year I haven't started my coal because of several factors but it would not that long to get it up and going.

 

[m7040]

Rip, wish you wife speedy recovery
Bubbies, talk about timely?

 

[LouNY]

We built also several plants that burned waste coal that was left over from mining of coal and I had the O&M contract for the Gilberton plant Frackville PA. The owner of the plant Johnny Rich had a huge building down the street with veteran cars and full time mechanics. it was not open to the public but he let me visit often. Always was interesting. Not sure what happened to his collection?

The waste to energy plants were a good idea.
I would like to see some composting land fill style methane production plants built. Separate out none composables,
then compost the rest in bunkers with methane collection systems, use the methane and then seperate the composted material into usable compost landfill the small amount left.
Or else get back on the nuclear energy train.