Re: The price of oil

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> 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?

We touched base once a year.
It's nice to know that so-and-so is still alive.

I also heard from the Captain regularly until around then.
He finally went to college in his 30s, graduated and then disappeared
into the ether. 
> 
> https://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/Risingclouds/Comedic/GaryLarson
>> Du ckCardI.jpg
> 
> Always beware the duck.
> 
Uh-huh..