Re: The price of oil
BeH <[email protected]>
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On 21.09.2022 23.49, Merlyne wrote: > BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: > >> On 19.09.2022 21.22, Merlyne wrote: >>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: >> >> [...] >>>> It heating oil. For not being cold and avoiding cold showers and >>>> such. >>> >>> I think most houses here are heated with natural gas. Except for old >>> houses that never got upgraded and houses built in the late 1970s >>> which have baseboard heating because electricity was cheaper then. >> >> A lot of houses and district heating plants around here was converted >> to or build for natural gas when they started pulling it out of the >> danish part of the north sea in the late 1970s I think. Supposedly it >> was "cleaner" than oil - and of course it wasn't import. >> >> You may have heard that NG is not only rather more expensive these >> days and also the european supply isn't as secure as had been >> expected. >> >> Anyway solar- or wind-powered heat pumps is the future (for now). > > Solar is impractical. There is not enough light during the winter months > plus the snow/freezing rain needs to be cleared. There's lots of solar here - though photovoltaic is mostly peoples own installations. But we have quite a bit of thermal in connection with district heating plants... > They did a pilot project for wind farms. There were issues with the > effects of noise pollution on people and wildlife that live near the > turbines plus they only work when it's windy. It's not super windy here. They have this new thing called 'cables'. Really useful for getting the energy from wind-turbines out at sea to the washing mashine. > >> >> [...] >>>>> Observation: you write numbers the same way the Fr*nch do >>>> >>>> Correctly, you mean...? >>>> >>> >>> Is it correct to mess up csv files with backwards decimal notations? >> >> "Never trust the format of a cvs file", as I always used to say. >> >>> It's at times like this, I miss Phil. >> >> So you can be wrong together...? >> > You're hilarious! I know. > But, no. > > Phil and I had a fight in 2015(?). > I think he would be conflicted over wanting to tell you that you are > wrong as usual vs. not wanting to back me up on this. Oh. Also you were (still) in contact with Phil i 2015? > https://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/Risingclouds/Comedic/GaryLarsonDu > ckCardI.jpg Always beware the duck.