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Then Google bought NEST. Fuck that; Google doesn't need to know how I heat and cool my home. I've kept the NEST disconnected from the wifi ever since.
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In addition, people have been so short sighted with how these companies have been conditioning them to accept the "you own nothing and will be happy" mantra. From making products disposable to getting your content via subscription streaming services to making your products reliant on some server in the cloud. The last point is an expansion of what you said concerning privacy. But it also has implications on your usage of said product. Companies can just turn off that server forcing you to trash bin a product that was working just fine. Louis Rossman had put out a video recently on a IP camera sold on Amazon. The company didn't alert users that the company no longer supported the camera and didn't pull the product from being sold over the retail channel. Users bought the camera to find out the camera wouldn't work. The only response from the company was to give them a discount on purchasing a new camera that would work. I myself had this situation happen with a product that work fabulously. It was a Slingbox. Before you were able to use it without the intervention of a cloud server brokering the connection between the remote client and that box. Then they switched the operating model with their newer versions forcing you to use their server. Then AT&T came in and bought out the IP for the company and shut it down. We got a year warning the server is going to go offline. The system work great for me but I was forced to scrap it. I ended up cobbling together a similar but not so elegant solution. Unfortunately it does utilize a cloud based device for the remote control functions. But I figure I can get another solution that does the same thing without a problem if this one fails. As to the smart thermostat situation, I opted to get a Honeywell product. I figure it was the lesser of the evils out there. I have it installed at my vacation home. The main reason is to be able to get the house conditioned to a comfortable internal temperature when I arrive. I have the temp permanently set pretty high in the summer months and pretty low in the winter months to save on unnecessary energy costs when I'm not there. The thermostat did come in handy one time when my HVAC wasn't working during a really cold winter season. I got email alerts from the thermostat that the temperature of the house was too low. Drove out immediately to check on the house and indeed the HVAC wasn't working. |
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Just for grins. This is the average US gasoline price since 2001 broken into specific segments of time. Each segment average price was then adjusted to 2023 for comparison purposes. Price data from Forbes. These data (trend) pretty much mirror my personal recorded gas price data (for premium - about 42 cents more than regular) for the same time periods.
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I think the issue with solar on a end user basis is ROI. In this day and age few people know where and when their employment and family needs will change that will require moving. With pay back from 15 to 30 years and the value in the resale market unknown it makes this hard to justify. I built in 2005 and I spent the money on geothermal and super insulation as I plan on leaving this house feet first. If I were to build again tomorrow I doubt I would make those investments. (closer to feet first)
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12-09-2023, 08:45 AM | #5220 | |
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I've looked into solar as well. My place is tucked up on the north face of a 1,500 foot mountain (the house is at 860 feet ASL). There is not enough sun exposure in the winter to capture enough energy for a day without putting the array out in the front yard. Doing that kills the rural esthetics of the property and the panels then would be susceptible to the river floodplain. Solar is just not for everyone, it's hard to convince enviro-Californians of this; they see everything from a Cali perspective. I need propane and 24/7 400-amp service for my house in the winter to keep warm. Just the way it is. Heat pump and solar won't cut it. Living on a DER grid when some m'effer doesn't plug his Tesla in and I get a brownout would be difficult to explain to my wife. It took a while for her to accept the toilet doesn't flush when the electricity goes out in a storm*. * Yup, I do have a mini-DER (called Generac)
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That is a challenge as is the shorter days as you go further north, which is ironic because if you're going to heat using electricity you need the solar array to work during the cold months. We installed a new state of the art heat pump/furnace in January '23. The government here is pushing them as a way to get off fossil fuels, the problem is that our top of the line heat pump can work below -10C but really struggles. So we have saved about 25-30% of our propane consumption, we still need the propane half of the furnace for the colder months, January & February are often well below -10C. Our new heat pump will take about 15-20 years to pay for itself. And thank you for the comment on our home.
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* I've got 40 acres now, but it's mostly vertical. 35 of it is original-growth forest. Big 'ole carbon sink/oxygen spewer.
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Still like the geothermal for comfort and cost of operation but it does require a stable power grid.
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The only second guess I made was using a slinky field for the geothermal. (they are rated slightly higher for heat transfer) I would likely go bentonite well next time. The sinking of the ground over the slinky field is a pain in the ass. I bet I have several tons of top soil added in the past 10 years to flatten out the yard. Then again it is a good excuse for tractor time
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Not a HVAC expert but I have wired in a number of thermostats over the years and the later HVAC units have 2 or 3 heating settings and 1 or 2 cooling and my current systems is a 5 wire 3/2 system but I have had a 10 wire outside temp sensor systems in the past. Point is I doubt the the Lennox is any different than any other HVAC unit. Maybe a non Lennox tech is what you really need? Then again my general rule is if it ain't broken don't fix it as there is always enough stuff to fix.
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I'm in Amish country and those things are all over the place. Personally I think that is ideal for heating a shop but I'm a little too old and soft to use it for my house. The thought of getting up a 5:00am to stoke the boiler is just not my cup of tea.
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You should only consider a hybrid if it works for you. Don’t consider one based on the predilections of the ultra wealthy. Why would you ever do that?
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