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enels
Senior Cruncher Joined: Apr 25, 2008 Post Count: 286 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Air from Canada is making WA State very cold.
My humming bird feeders freeze so I have to warm them up. In the last 100 years, Anna's hummingbird has started living in North America full time. There normal heart rate is 1000+ beats per minute, but they can go into a torpor and lower it to 70 beats per minutes to save energy. I don't know where they would get food in January without humans feeding them. In addition to electricity I have the option of burning wood for heat. I don't have a natural gas line so it is electricity or wood. I'm at 350 watts of computer heat and sometimes I run the electric wall heaters to take the chill off. Other than that I heat with wood. I have a very efficient air tight stove. In addition to reducing the load on the grid, wood is a renewable resource. A dead tree can release its carbon through decomposition or in my stove. |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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:-) How's that Global Warming out there ?
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David Autumns
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Nice one enels
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enels
Senior Cruncher Joined: Apr 25, 2008 Post Count: 286 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks David A. We are at the whims of the jet stream here. And a convergance zone. Very hard to predict the weather for more than a couple days.
And thank you for your links and insight. I think releasing fossil carbon into the atmosphere will change something. Perhaps for the better. I agree about efficiency. i have a kill-a-watt meter that has helped me. |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Lowest Average Temp and Lowest Daily Average Temp ...in the last 6 years
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David Autumns
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Daily average temperature 1 whole degree C below any lowest average temperature in the last 6 years
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KLiK
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Daily average temperature 1 whole degree C below any lowest average temperature in the last 6 years ...and yet the News is surprisingly absent. No, it's not...we got warnings about a cold Sibirain front coming from Russia...-15°C + 25-30km/h wind in my area... On some places even colder! |
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David Autumns
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David Autumns
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Sorry KLiK
----------------------------------------I had my Canada/USA head on The Global Thermometer has 2386 stations around the Globe monitored hourly and collectively it has never been this cold in the last 6 years since it started up See this great link https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/su...raphic=-34.99,-283.14,432 |
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David Autumns
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Just at the moment the UK and Ireland are sitting quite toasty by comparison with the majority of the Northern Hemisphere.
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