Good morning!!!!

rswyan · Dec 24, 2022

3F with haze and wind @ 12:00, might get up to 12F today if we are lucky.

Was 4F when I got up, then dropped back down to 2F, and now back up to 3F with the wind just howling (out of the WSW @ 27 mph)

Felt pretty drafty and cool in the house without much on when I got up but not so bad now with some clothes on. Thankfully no power issues.

T'stat is set on 74F but it's not able to keep up, only makes it to around 72F before the furnace cycles off. Can certainly live with that.

Woman said She saw the deer strolling through out back, feel bad for them. Might grab a bucket of corn from down in the basement and dump it outside if the wind lets up and I get inspired later.

She also reported that all the birds were back at the feeders this morning, suspects that they have been cleaned out again. Probably will refill those as well.

Got torpedo heater hooked up in the garage last night and fired it off. T'stat on that was reading 28F when I switched it on (since it was closer to the ground than the thermometer I brought up from the fish room) Torpedo heater had it warmed up to 57F in about 10 to 15 minutes at which point I shut it off. It had fallen back to 37F in a couple of hours. No idea what it is now, other than it's probably damn cold.

Got more staining done last night along with some assembly work, still have a little more left to do today.

More YouTubing on building a woodworking bench as well.

We are supposed to go over to neighbor friend's for dinner tonight but will have to see if we can get the doors on the car open as they are likely frozen shut. If we can't, she may stop by on her way back from church and pick us up. Woman is baking her a custard pie. Looks like we'll be getting a pumpkin pie ...

Time to go get the second cup.

m7040 · Dec 24, 2022

LouNY said:
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.Rewww

Lou, remember the LA Ca landfill had a couple of large engines fueled by Methane from the land fill driving generators

rswyan · Dec 24, 2022

m7040,

Sadly no longer in operation but they gave it a shot:

https://gwcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1988-National-Waste-Processing-Conference-27.pdf

scaredychicken · Dec 24, 2022

Good Morning before Christmas

lots of plowing to get to, so not sure how the day looks.
i'll check in when i can
prayers for all those situations

until later ...

Buppies · Dec 24, 2022

Prayers riptides that they got all of it and recovery goes smoothly for the wife, continued prayers

m7040 · Dec 24, 2022

rswyan said:
m7040,

Sadly no longer in operation but they gave it a shot:

https://gwcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1988-National-Waste-Processing-Conference-27.pdf

A lot of the waste to energy plants have marginal economics because of competing landfills. Waste tipping fees in areas with limited landfills can be higher and that is where WTE can be competitive

txdon · Dec 24, 2022

35˚
We are finished with our 48 hour freeze and the low was 12˚ Friday morning.
No low pressure ng problems this morning, so we only lost pressure for 3 hours Friday morning.
We will have another four freezing nights only before the temps return to normal (around 45-65˚ for Dec.)

daugen · Dec 24, 2022

m7040 said:
A lot of the waste to energy plants have marginal economics because of competing landfills. Waste tipping fees in areas with limited landfills can be higher and that is where WTE can be competitive

some of the islands in the Caribbean I believe have really committed to burning up their trash instead of dumping it in the ocean.
like so many things, we have the tech. Paying for it is something else. Like how would Haiti in its anarchy ever be able to afford it?
makes you wonder where all the trash in Haiti is going to....

but I know where mine is going. I've mentioned before I used to boat for many years going past that landfill down on the Delaware River.
It just kept getting bigger, becoming a mountain along the banks of the Delaware. Seagulls loved it.

stopping ocean dumping would be a great place to start.
this was a big deal with cruise lines, they used to dump all their trash and sewer at sea, maybe even used motor oil in the old days.
More than twelve miles out, who cares. Tell it to the cod I'm about to eat in my fish sandwich.
I bet our military was equally bad about this until recently.

Many cruise lines today are like we learned in boy scouts. Pack it in, pack it out.
Leave things better than you found them.

when I had my boat in the Philadelphia Marina, every Saturday night some business would burn an incinerator and it left white sticky ash over everything the next morning.
Certainly weren't any scrubbers on that stack.
burning only makes sense if it doesn't create other major problems. Today cost of energy might be a show stopper. So we really need to burn our trash.

KilroyJC · Dec 24, 2022

LouNY said:
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.

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