It’s officially summer now and it’s suddenly very, very hot and humid in Greensboro and Guilford County. As the area bakes under a punishing stretch of extreme heat this week, Duke Energy is asking everyone to help reduce stress on the electric grid to avoid potential power outages.
As of Monday, June 23, a Heat Advisory is in effect through Tuesday, with the National Weather Service forecasting heat index values around 105 degrees. An Excessive Heat Watch is expected to follow – lasting into Wednesday evening – since heat indices could climb as high as 110 degrees.
Daytime temperatures across the area are expected to remain in the mid to upper 90s through the weekend as well, with overnight lows not offering a great deal of relief – temperatures then will be hovering in the mid-70s. Tuesday’s forecast high is 98 degrees, and, in addition to the oppressive heat, on Wednesday there’s a risk of severe afternoon thunderstorms.
Duke Energy, which supplies electricity to much of the Triad, issued a public request for energy conservation Monday, warning that “Successive days of extreme temperatures are driving unusually high energy demand in our area, and reserve power supplies are currently very limited.”
The utility said energy conservation could play a key role in protecting the stability of the electric grid and in reducing the risk of temporary outages.
Residents are being urged to take the following steps:
- Set thermostats to the highest comfortable setting, especially between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
- Avoid using washers, dryers and dishwashers until after 8 p.m.
- Cook with a microwave, cooktop or outdoor grill rather than an electric oven.
- Turn off all nonessential appliances and electronics including lights, gaming devices, computers and chargers.
- Charge electric vehicles and other battery-powered equipment overnight or in the morning hours.
“We understand that reducing your energy use can be challenging, especially indoor cooling during an unusually warm day,” Duke Energy stated Monday. “We greatly appreciate your assistance – your actions make a difference.”
Local officials are also reminding county residents to take precautions against heat-related illness.
Emergency management officials recommend staying indoors during peak heat, drinking lots of water, avoiding strenuous outdoor activity and checking on elderly neighbors and those without air conditioning.
The National Weather Service warns that extended exposure to high heat can quickly lead to dehydration or heatstroke – especially for young children, older adults, outdoor workers and anyone with chronic health conditions.
The heat wave is expected to linger through at least Saturday, with a slight drop in temperatures possible by Sunday.
U Green Dyke… (DUKE ENERGY) …. I’d have more sympathy for you if you didn’t gouge me every month.
Spare us the solar panels and build a power station.
Oh right, you know better than the thousands of climate scientists about man’s impact driving climate change and the need for green energy. Makes sense with all your experience of door-to-door sales that you would know more than climate scientists about climate change.
And here’s….. Chris
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….. “Saucer of milk, Table Nine!”
Chris likes to sneer at conservatives, but he always shows how dumb he is himself. He can be relied on to miss the point completely, and subleties always go over his head.
In this example of his stupidness, he has failed to notice the comment’s anagram.
Tis guy thinks he’s some kind of genius with his verbal diarrhea, but he’s just another dense liberal.
He probably STILL can’t understand what I’m talking about!
Thick.
I sneer at people who choose to ignore science that they find inconvenient. I am no genius, but I trust the great minds that make up the scientific community and have long proven that climate change is a real issue, is cause by our overuse of carbon-based energy sources and if we don’t address will cause long-term issues that will lower quality of life for future generations.
Willful ignorance is the modern conservative approach fed by conspiracy theories, big oil and social media talking heads who profit off their misinformation.
Just here to provide the counter narrative to the anti-science nutters.
But you be you.
Whoosh…!
That was the sound of the concept flying over Chris’s head.
He has no idea about what is being referred to.
He’s as stupid as they come. Which is really, really stupid.
This guy’s a loser.
ditto. we be we. their mad because the educated debunked their scripture & reduced it to another ‘santa claus’ myth.
Sneer away, a-hole.
LOL, the three blind mice all expressing their willful ignorance. Classic.
And the “climate scientists”, of course, know what the “correct” temperature of the Earth is. What if it turns out that the Earth really wants to be 40 degrees Fahrenheit year-round? You’ll be begging for some warming then. Truth is that there is no way to know what the correct climate/temperature is or even if it is entirely stable, but based on known history, it certainly isn’t. The next ice age or the next meteor impact could be just around the corner, so don’t get your panties in a wad about a few hot days. You already said yourself that a few dates are not an indicator of a climate trend. And even if we had accurate data for the last 40,0000 years for an earth that is about 4 billion years old, that is like 0.001% of the earth’s historical weather data. In other words, not scientifically relevant. “Climate scientists” are about as accurate as my local weather man, which isn’t saying much. I mean they still have to say that “it might rain today”, unless it is actually already raining. And you think they can accurately predict weather centuries into the future? Get real.
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Yep! I’m still waiting for “The Coming Ice Age” .
Not sure where you read your climate science news, but you are not correct. Climate science does have a very deep understanding the ideal temperature range that we can sustain our current way and quality of life.
For a quick summary:
Overall Habitable Range: While the average global temperature is around 59 F, life exists in a much wider range of temperatures, from below freezing (5 F to well above boiling (252 F) in extreme environments like hydrothermal vents for example.
Optimal Temperature for Biodiversity and Biological Processes: Recent research suggest that around 68 F appears to be a particularly optimal temperature for the thriving of a wide range of life forms, including animals, plants and microbes. This temperature is linked to the efficiency of cellular processes and seems to correlate with higher biodiversity. Temperatures consistently above this threshold have been linked to declines in species richness and even extinctions in the fossil record.
Human Habitable Range: For complex life like Humans, the comfortable temperature range is much narrower, generally requiring temperatures that allow for liquid water and don’t denature proteins which happens at around 107 F .
Climate scientists use this knowledge to understand the potential impact of global warming. Even small increases in average temperatures can have significant effects on ecosystems and species, pushing them out of their “optimal’ temperature ranges or exceeding their tolerance limits. This can lead to shifts in geographic distributions, reduced biodiversity and increased extinction rates.
In essence, scientist know that life on Earth can adapt to a wide range of temperatures, but there’s a specific range that fosters the greatest biodiversity and optimal functioning of most biological processes. Deviations from this optimal range, especially rapid ones like we are experiencing now, pose significant challenges to life on Earth.
Happy to share a number of easy-to-read summaries of that address a number of points you seem to misunderstand about climate science. For example, one of the most common misinformation narratives is that climate models have not been accurate when they have actually been very accurate since the 80s and even the 70s with more advanced computing driving far more accuracy in the last two decades. Happy to share more information on this if interested.
That’s a very fancy, AI-generated response you got there. And you entirely missed the point. I am not talking about “ideal” temperature, I was saying that no one knows what the temperature of the Earth will be 100 years from now. Past data is not an indicator of future data because of all of the fluctuations and outside influences that climate is subject to. So there is no way to know what the “right” temperature of the Earth is.
Example: If we were living at the beginning of the last ice age, average temps for the previous century would have been much higher and the climate scientists would scream that humans are cooling the Earth. If they existed in the middle of it, they would say that everything is normal, despite it being freezing cold outside. And at the end of that ice age, they would proclaim global warming!! as the Earth thawed. And that single ice age occurred over thousands of years. In short, we have existed in such a tiny portion of the Earth’s history that it is insane to proclaim that we know what the situation will be 1000, 100, or even 20 years from now.
Solar flare, nuclear war, meteor, tiny fluctuations in solar output or Earth/Lunar orbits, mega volcano, weakening of the magnetic field, etc., etc., etc. there are too many variables in play, some of which are a certainty eventually, to worry about a few degrees of temperature fluctuation in such a tiny window of the Earth’s history. If you’re really that worried about it, ask Al Gore to stop flying his jets around, ask all governments to stop shooting rockets into space (that includes all satellites, so goodbye modern conveniences), stop using airplanes for travel, stop using ships and trucks for cargo delivery, and on and on. The go green argument is so ridiculous when most of our infrastructure cannot utilize it. Sure, let’s all do our part locally to not generate so much trash, but that’s about as good as it’s going to get.
And don’t use AI to look your answers up for you, dummy.
The forecast models have been very accurate at forecasting the change in average global temperature. Happy to share details if interested.
Give AI a try before you post your comments. You can find a lot of answers and sources to verify those answers rather quickly. For example….what is the forecast global temperature if we do nothing about climate change for the year 2050. Then ask what the confidence in that estimate is by climate science models.
Gemni responds as follows: If no action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the forecast global temperature for 2050 is likely to be at least 1.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, with a high probability of exceeding that threshold. Some scenarios project warming of 2.1 to 3.5°C under a moderate emissions pathway (SSP2-4.5) and 3.3 to 5.7°C under a high emissions pathway (SSP5-8.5) by the end of the 21st century
What you will notice is there as no doomsday forecasts as so many climate deniers like to claim that climate scientists have made (like Austin believing climate scientists project a new ice age…. they didn’t). Sure, there are plenty of sources of misinformation to feed whatever narrative you want to find on the internet so always check the sources and give them a good read. The AI can often be incorrect by using invalid sources. So as Reagan said….Trust but verify.
Also note that climate models are not just taking past data and forecast foreward, they are complex computations of as many of the known variables and how they interact with each other to form our climate. So not sure saying ‘past data isn’t an indicator of future’ is relevant to climate modeling.
Climate science does know the future range of global temperature based on a range of scenarios and assumptions based on very complex models of our climate operates. Past models have been quit accurate to date. Yes the media and many non-climate scientists love to print books and articles with wild doomsday scenarios but that is just noise. Not science.
Wake up. Being woke is about first listening, then learning, then thinking….but that requires you listen to experts and not noise makers.
Best wishes.
Don, to take on your false argument that if science lived at the beginning of the early ice age that they would claim we were cooling the earth is not a fair argument. Climate science takes a great deal of study of causes for changes in science. Heck they today know quit well what caused the ice based on modeling. And no, they don’t blame man.
You are implying that science is making an assumption and claiming it as fact. They aren’t. They are studying the variables to drive change building models to forecast future changes based on those studies and validating those models as a means to testing their hypothesis. (scientific method is taught in 3rd grade I believe). The key variable here is greenhouse effect of certain gasses. These have been studied for decades and are well understood as a result of modeling, testing, validation etc….
Science doesn’t guess. It studies, it hypothesizes, it tests, it validates, it repeats, and only then do they KNOW. And they KNOW that greenhouse gasses from man’s industrialization are causing global temperatures to rise which is disrupting climate, weather, sea level, and future quality of life.
Why do you not want to trust science?
Well for one, because my computer assisted meteorologist can’t get tomorrow’s weather accurately predicted with certainty, so why would I trust a climatologist to predict the weather in 2050? I guess we can come back to this in 2050 to see if your AI prediction was right. Right now, it’s just a guess that they have absolutely no way of confirming because of all of the unknown possibilities that can occur between now and then. Just like the 1980s TV commercials that assured us the world would be a desert by now did not come true, so too will your AI’s little prediction.
The Ice Age example was obviously hyperbole, but your AI softened brain can’t understand that, I guess.
Why don’t I blindly trust “the science”? Because scientists “knew” that the COVID vaccine would protect you from COVID. And they were wrong. Tons of other examples I could give, but that one is the lowest hanging fruit from the last few years.
I will give you this: Your AI generated answers may be wrong, but at least they are free of your chronic typos.
Are we talking about weather or climate? Two very different topics. Make up your mind.
But weather forecasts are actually very accurate. Note they predict weather events based on a probability not 100% certainty. Just because you don’t understand what the forecast is predicting, doesn’t mean it is wrong.
But back to the topic at hand….you don’t need to wait for 2050. Why not just look back at what the models predicted back in the 90s and see how accurate they were? Cool thing about the internet is that those predictions are out there for you to read:
https://theconversation.com/20-years-on-climate-change-projections-have-come-true-11245#:~:text=The%20data%20since%20then%20have,time%20or%20100%20years%20time.%E2%80%9D
https://www.nationalacademies.org/based-on-science/climate-models-reliably-project-future-conditions#:~:text=Based%20on%20this%20information%2C%20scientists%20have%20high,to%20change%2C%20especially%20at%20the%20global%20level.
Best wishes
If you want to say that predicting there is 30% chance it will rain tomorrow is “accurate”, then there is a 100% chance you’re a moron. I can say right now that there is a 30% chance it will rain on any particular day, use a fancy computer model to show my work, and then when it doesn’t rain, say, “Well my prediction was accurate.” And by your logic, when it doesn’t rain, I can still say, “Well my prediction was accurate.” That is not how accuracy works and not what the word means. Look it up. They cannot even say with accuracy, aka certainty, if it will rain at all just one day from today. Some days they even go with the old 50/50 chance. Thanks weatherman. That is not a scientifically accurate result.
Similarly, your climate models might predict something with 30% confidence. That prediction might even come true, but that does not mean their research was sound or that their science was accurate.
Think of it like this, dummy: You cannot accurately predict that your car will still be working this time next year. No amount of science can predict with any accuracy that your car will even exist. Why? Because there are too many variables in play between now and then. All it takes is another dummy to hit your car, or a tree, or a storm, or a malfunction, etc. Now try to apply that same logic to a constantly changing planet orbiting around a constantly changing star that is hurdling through a largely unexplored galaxy. Too many variables are in play.
Chris, AI chat bots generally give you the answers you want to hear, based on how you word your question. So it telling you that there are some climate change articles that support your own theory is nothing to cheer about.
Try typing, “Tell me all the ways that climatologist prediction’s have been proven wrong” and you’ll get a series of scientific articles and AI statements that support that line of thinking.
AI is more of a confirmation bias machine if you do not use it carefully. It’s also wildly inaccurate sometimes and produces off the wall inane responses at other times. Do not trust AI any more than you would trust Yahoo News or the National Enquirer because it just might be using them as information sources without telling you.
Don, a litttle AI research would do you well before you post. Note what 30% chance of rain means:
A 30% chance of rain means there’s a 30% probability that at least 0.01 inches of rain will fall at any specific location within the forecast area. It doesn’t mean it will rain for 30% of the time or that 30% of the area will be affected. It’s a statistical probability based on the likelihood of rain and the area it’s expected to cover. And a very accurate probability at that…
Saying that science can’t 100% predict one data point in one very exact location doesn’t disprove forecasting or climate modeling. It just proves you don’t understand probabilities and statistics which is typically taught in middle school. Ask one of your grandkids to help you out.
Best wishes
Timmy, write your own prompts and verify the sources. AI in this context is just a more accurate search tool. Not complicated.
If you are a professional, I advise you learn how to write quality prompts as it is the future.
Best wishes.
Like talking to a wall. I concede that you’re too ignorant to be educated. Catch you in 2050 to see if your climate change probability models were 30% “accurate” some of the time, under certain conditions, with unknown variables.
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Don, Chris has a personality defect that means he will never admit to being in error. He’s always right about everything!
Or he’s a preening egotist with mental health issues….
Don, your ignorance is showing in your statement and illustrates why we should just trust the scientists as you clearly lack the basic knowledge of statistical analysis to even understand a weather report not to mention a climate model forecasts.
Best of luck.
This from the guy who couldn’t understand basic job benefits for a local government position. Forgive me, Chris, if I’m not too worried about your ignorant opinion doofus.
At least I can read a weather report and understand the difference between climate and weather.
But you be you.
That’s debatable since you need AI to generate your thoughts and even then missed the point of my post and instead had your bot rant away on “ideal” temperature. (And until I called you out on it, you posted your AI info like it was your own writing.) To be fair, AI may be better because the posts you write yourself are largely full of typos. Hard to take you seriously really when you can’t complete your own thoughts. But please do carry on in your ignorance, since you’re so busy being you.
Awwww Donny doesn’t like that i actually research facts, data, and expert opinions on matters of science. Lol. Go ahead and continue to discount climate science because you cant understand what 30 percent chance of rain actually means. God forbid you actually learn something from researching the actual science versus ranting about weather forecasts not being able to say it will rain at this time, in this exact place for this exact amount of time. But until you do learn to research by yourself, Happy to help Donny Boy.
What a goof.
Oh gosh. That really hurt my feelings. (Eye roll). So dumb, man.
Only a conservative can find fault in someone researching for actuals facts, data and expert opinions. The dumbing down of America by Trump and MAGA crowd is truly scary to watch.
No, the fault lies with you, dummy. Have a great day being you, sir.
This guy Chris has been caught out in an act of plagiarism and doesn’t even have the honesty to fess up and apologize. It’s all just regurgitated A.I .
What a sly little shyster.
You can’t believe anything he writes.
I have never copied AI word for word. I just use as an efficient search tool for data, sources of articles from experts on a given subject.etc….
Again you prove the narrow minded conservative who doesn’t value the insight, facts and data from sourced experts on a topic because they have the “I thunk it so it mus be troo” approach to evaluating any given topic.
But you be you
You most certainly did copy it word for word in the post you didn’t credit AI for at all. The same one where you thought I was talking about ideal temperature. June 25th, everything after “for a quick summary” until “happy to share” is AI generated. We know because there are no typos. Hahaha….but seriously, it is.
my big concern is not temperature change it’s the contamination of soil, air & water. how’s that PFAS/PFOS removal project coming along COG ?
We have f’d up our global home in many different ways. Wait to you hear about the impacts of overfishing and destruction of animal habitats.
Chris, that’s a bunch of bull! Hottest summer on record was 1914—long before the population was so large or there were many gas powered vehicles. Real scientists have a totally different explanation. And do you remember the near record low temps in January?
we did set a new low temp record last month
Scott. Just curious, why do some responses stream out like Don’s previous post. It makes reading slightly difficult.
I’m not sure but I will have the tech team look at it. It may be that it formats replies that way when they are like replies to replies to replies. That puts the comment on the right and there may not be enough room. I will see what can be done about it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Are we pretending that weather = climate again?
Global Average Temperature is the concern and the key metric. Sure, we have outliers as weather events with extreme heat and cold at various isolated localities. Those don’t tell you anything about climate which looks over wider period of times (typically decades) and maps changes in Average Global Temperature. Point so single localized data point is irrelevant to the conversation of climate change.
Climate models don’t tell you what the weather will be like in a specific location on a specific date. It tells you about the changes in averages with a global perspective in increments of decades. Which have not only been increasing but quickly accelerating at levels not seen during any point of man’s existence on earth.
Better to leave climate science to those that at least know the difference between weather and climate. Let’s start there……
“Science” can’t even explain why the Earth is rotating more quickly than usual, with days now lasting up to 1.5 milliseconds less than usual.
Science actually has a very good explanation of why the earth periodically speeds up. It takes time to validate the hypothesis and have those studies go through peer review before it is confirmed a fact as has long ago been done with climate change due to man’s over use of fossil fuels.
The spinning of the earth has always been variable. While the long term trend is it slowing, it has in the past sped up so not a new trick. A number of factors, including changes in the Earth’s core and mantle, melting glaciers, and variations in ocean and atmospheric currents. Note that a number of those variables are confirmed changing as a result of climate change.
Science is always expanding and learning. Keep up. The internet actually makes it easy to stay current if you really cared.
“Duke Energy has increased its five-year capital expenditure plan to $83 billion, a 13.7% rise from previous projections. This is a direct response to the surge in demand from data centers, which are expected to account for up to 50% of Duke’s total pipeline by 2029″…..They have announced plans to build 5GW of new natural gas power plants, but the figure of 50% going to data centers caught my attention. NG looks like a better choice and less expensive as long as the government keeps its thumb off the scales. I quizzed AI on this and got the following answer:
A 5 GW natural gas plant costs between $3.6 billion and $7.3 billion and occupies approximately 1,000 acres.
A 5 GW solar farm with 4-hour battery storage costs $14.9–$17.9 billion and uses 20,000–35,000 acres, with total costs (including land) reaching $15.1–$19.7 billion, depending on land prices and battery costs
i suggest the electricity cost of every AI ‘quizz’ be immediately revealed to the consumer. blues creek is going nuclear when ? thnx for your research. major media pushes profitable consumption activities but never $$ saving energy reducing strategies. half the population of our southern tier will relocate(die) if they lack a/c ?
i suggest the electricity cost of every AI ‘quizz’ be immediately revealed to the consumer. blues creek is going nuclear when ? thanks for your research. major media pushes profitable consumption activities but never $$ saving energy reducing strategies. half the population of our southern tier will relocate(die) if they lack a/c ?
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Wow.
I didn’t know that Solar was THAT uneconomic. Thanks for the info.
Austin what you just said about scientists and earth’s rotation is so true. In all of mankind’s history we still can’t cure the common cold
Yes.
Don’t you love Chris’s bloviating comment, which speaks a lot and says nothing?
The scientists actually are mystified about the Earth’s accelerating rotation.
turn it off.
Right. Solar panels & wind farms are not cost-effective or dependable, yet. Natural gas, hydro, and nuclear are. The govt needs to get out of the way with all this mandated crap.
I think I’ll buy a green electric car to be a part of the solution.
EVs have a negative cost. Someday in the future, or perhaps another source of power. But not now. Govts use green energy mandates as yet another means of control.
I have an older Camry that gets 30-35mpg on regular gas. Less chips and plastics. Less money to insure, and will last years more with minimal care. THAT is cost-effective.
‘data center’ needs that juice so that surveillance is uninterrupted. gotta keep those empty (go look) barns of worship cool while their ordnance drops on the heathen.
Not to mention that bitcoin mining centers use twice the energy of data centers
These are all good tips. Savings for us, and savings for Duke.
Do you want rolling blackouts? Peak throttling?
Why not generate more power? We don’t have to live like we’re in The Third World, do we?
They’ll be telling us to use candles next.
use candles
So we should go back to candles, and bicycles? Return to the 19th Century?
And the Left claims to be “progressive” !
i went back to bicycle with encouragement from guvmnt >15ya & make it work ONLY because i live inner city with bike bus PART train plane. my transport expense ~$100/yr excluding food. electric lighting is cheap. HVAC/water heater/stove/hair clothes dryers etc not so much – but i don’t use them. my last 32 days of duke power was ~$31, piedmont nat gas ~$32. i use candles to bless throats from choking: ‘tradition’ based on fables from confabulators.
You are perfectly within your rights to live as a hermit, Markle.
You are not within your rights to force your lifestyle on everybody else.
I think we can use all the hot air generated on this forum to generate steam to drive a turbine.
Takes time, capital and infrastructure investments to increase power with up to a decade of planning before a new plant goes online. Forecasts for power consumption have been disrupted by the accelerated demand for computing as a rapid rise of both block chain (bitcoin type platforms) and AI.
Not complicated.
is duke powers’ ‘load control’ program still exist ? it made sense.
Chris, that’s a bunch of bull! Hottest summer on record was 1914—long before the population was so large or there were many gas powered vehicles. Real scientists have a totally different explanation. And do you remember the near record low temps in January?
Have a source of real scientists who have another explanation for the accelerated heating of our planet? Also curious your source stating 1914 as hottest summer since climate science has measured the hottest summer recorded globally as 2024.
https://www.noaa.gov/news/earth-had-its-hottest-august-in-175-year-record#:~:text=Season%20(June%E2%80%93August%202024),world’s%20warmest%20year%20on%20record.
Maybe you are thinking of a local temperature record…..which is a weather metric not a climate metric.
Hey, it’s hot so let us try to help out in ways Duke has suggested. I don’t want power outages as we will all be screwed. Let Chris and John Kerry solve the energy issues. They know the best ways!
Not me. But happy to share the range of ideas supported by actual scientists and engineers working through how to address the issue. Sadly we are stuck at step one which is motivating the public behind the need for change. That is where I stay focused as the solutions don’t add up unless you understand the need for change versus the value of changing (which is a negative financial return given the cost of newer energy sources versus old sources from fossil fuels).
Happy to discuss.
I’m an HVAC contractor in Northern VA.
– Keep all blinds and curtins shut.
– Change your DAMN air filter every 30 days. Do not buy the air filters with a MERV rating above 10.
They are too restrictive on air flow. Do not go below MERV 5, they don’t stop enough dirt.
– Make sure that the outdoor coils on your A/C are free of dirt and grass, etc. Hosing out with water is generally good enough. If the coils are greasy use simple green as a cleaning agent. Do NOT use a power washer on the coils, it will bend the fins.
Hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Thanks!
i just cleaned n oiled a big ‘waffle iron’ manhole cover in my sidewalk & made a pancake: i can adapt to higher temperatures !
Another thing you can do is wash your own car in swimwear and a water hose. Get plenty much wet.
I’m doing my part. My A/C is kaput, and living with fans and cold/tepid showers twice daily for five minutes.
ditto mine lightning destroyed >20ya. getting along great with 100% shaded yard & house with water hose spritzing on hottest days, box fans cool shower morning & evening. neighbor in identical bungalow just replaced the indoor & outdoor hvac stuff for $5k . . . now add the cost to run it & maintain it.
You could save even more money if you lived in a cave !
my family bought & lived in an earth berm house on lake daniel park. the bottom half was as cool as a cave (56*) with windowed cathedral ceiling upstairs pulling air through downstairs door & windows. in slab pipe/boiler heat. max insulation. you can save a lot of operation $ if you can afford the best when you build. they bought it from architect/engineer design/builders who built it for themselves. i explored caves when young n fit then made living under structures/decks.
Hey, if you want to live like a vole, knock yourself out.
speaking of voles . . . my resident marmot found & ate the honey dew melon i had ripening outside – it was a cantaloupe last year ! live like a sardine in an RV !
Love your self-deprecating sense of humour, Marllsparkl !
Cheers!
i started a new business, hiring, & looking for investors.
no bites. cowards!
Speaking of blistering heat (sidebar). 2-3 years ago, an HVAC provider zapped a four-figure repair on a $250 cost item. The obvious solution was switching providers who installed a new A/C, and an even more to install for furnace & A/C for a relative.
Less 2 years ago, a new a/c was installed, ten year warranty on parts, one year on labor. So Friday, the TRANE A/C died. Turns out it was a manufacturing defect. So between two service calls and cost of refridgerant + taxes, I am well on my way to $2,000. All due to the TRANE mfg defect. The unit cost was $6500. I am less than underwhelmed with TRANE, in my new home in Randolph. S*%t happens. We without a/c for 10-14 more days. 84 degrees in the house right now. It is my opinion that HVAC is a racket. TRANE will hear from me.
So, I am switching service providers with some people referred by others in the business. So, good luck out there everyone. Manufacturers and vendors across the board continue to cheapen their products and service.
I could offer numerous examples. For example, lots of people like Rao’s Marinara sauce. Expensive compared to others. I just learned that they were purchased by another company, the Sultans of Salt, Campbells soup Co.
I read the label, it used to read “extra virgin olive oil”, now it reads “olive oil”. The label also reads “Manufactured FOR, Rao’s specialty Foods, Inc.” We keep a bottle around for a quick fix. No mas.
Today’s rant.
should it read ‘motor oil’ ? microplastic PFAS slave child labored ? it’s about to become just ‘oil’ or ‘oil free’ ! eventually the label. in fine print, will say ‘add oil’ .
There is nowhere to hide. Big Brother & AI are moving in quickly. We are lemons to be squeezed from every angle.