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WCDT strips 3956-3960 (11th to 15th March 2019)
Skewbrow:
The housing complex we live in decided to switch from burning oil to geothermal 4 years ago. The cost of building the system was about 6k euros per family, but it has been saving a lot ever since. We have a total of 36 townhouses sharing water & heating, split into two housing cooperatives with separate budgets. What used to the boiler room could fit the geothermal equipment just fine.
This being Southwestern Finland, we generally have no real need for air conditioning. The last summer was an exception (ventilating alone would not drop the indoor
temperature below 75 degrees Fahrenheit no matter how hard we tried), so I am not losing sleep over that. At least not yet.
The key component to building a geothermal system was to drill seven holes, each 900 feet deep into the bedrock. The potential cloud in the horizon is that some other place nearby who later built a similar system seems to have hit a groundwater vein. We have had strange pools of water forming at select points also. I don't know what (if anything) needs to be done about it. The first 2 years went without incidents. May be the drought last year changed something underground?
cybersmurf:
The only places I have found air conditioning here in Austria is in offices. I have yet to find a private household equipped with some kind of cooling, since it barely used to be more than 30°C around here (85°F).
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 12 Mar 2019, 03:21 ---This being Southwestern Finland, we generally have no real need for air conditioning. The last summer was an exception (ventilating alone would not drop the indoor
temperature below 75 degrees Fahrenheit no matter how hard we tried), so I am not losing sleep over that. At least not yet.
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Cute. That's like 24 °C. that's a nice summer's day.
hakko504:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 12 Mar 2019, 03:21 ---This being Southwestern Finland, we generally have no real need for air conditioning. The last summer was an exception (ventilating alone would not drop the indoor
temperature below 75 degrees Fahrenheit no matter how hard we tried), so I am not losing sleep over that. At least not yet.
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South-ish Sweden here. Finland must have had a nice summer last year. Where I live we had close to 30°C for long parts of the summer. And we were lucky because even though our main heating is electric combined with a heat pump. Said heat pump was running quite a lot as an air conditioner rather than for heating last year ;) Also, while District heating is pushed heavily in Sweden I consider myself lucky to not have it. It works somewhat well for most parts of the year, but you're never really in control because you're limited to what the city gives you. Or for that matter, what your landlord is prepared to pay for as was the case in the last apartment I had.
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Case on 11 Mar 2019, 15:37 ---As to Ronan point: We've had two beyond-design base events (Chernobyl, Fukushima) in nuclear plants over the last 32 years,
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It's worth noting that Fukushima stood up to the earthquake quite admirably, and it was only the tsunami that fucked their shit up.
brasca:
Even a nutty neighbor like Melon doesn’t outweigh Elliot’s choice.
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