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Well just kidding once again of course.


Apropoo,

here oilheating has been very popular on small houses decades after decades, simply because it was very cheap and easy to maintain.
Taxation of heatingoil is actually very low here.

But on this decade, oil price start to raise and because oil heating systems need to be replaced something like every thirty years, there was boom for wood based heating systems.
Those are something like high tech form of conventional wood heating, quite much very similar as oilheating but fuel is wood pellets, like these:



There was aggressive marketing campaigns and it did it work. People need to sink five figures to replace old heating system anyway, and if it was luring to migrate system to use wood because oil price was so high, so lot of these systems was sold here.

Well, now it goes visa versa.
Oil price has collapsed, it is _very_ cheap once again, but price of woodpellets is increasing rapidly.
This is simply because this form of fuel production was innovated on era of high economic boom. There was very lot woodindustry here, and those plant did create huge amount of sawdust, that was refined to pellets.
But now, factory after another has been closed. So there is not simply raw material for those pellets available for a reasonable price.

So there is now great amount houses, that are equip with heating system that it is expensive to use and needs a lot maintain.
It is simply very different kind of machinery needed to convent heat from liquid than particles.

So it seems to me that with right marketing, it is actually possible to sell sand to Sahara...


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Yeah, they sell those here also. They are more popular in the northern part of the state, they will also burn corn. When corn was $1.30/bushel, I know of a person who put one in. It provides supplementary heat, his primary heat was propane. He said he would burn one to two bushels per day depending on how cold it was. When the price of corn went up, it was not such a good deal anymore. For may years I had a n oil furnace, but when natural gas became available I switched to that. The old furnace was only about 60% efficient, but the new one is 96% efficient. That was about 7 years ago already. We still turn the heat down at night and when no one is home.

The 10 inches of snow they predicted for today and tonight all fizzled. We got abot 2 inches, but the cold and wind are coming tomorrow. We'll see if they are right about that.

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When corn was $1.30/bushel,
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Hmm.... Most interesting...
That makes something like 50$/metric tonn....

Here price of wood pellet on year 2004 was 100 €/t (tax free and cargo not included) and that price did beat oil heating.
But after that:
2005 - 144 €/t
2006 - 174 €/t
2008 - 198 €/t


Weather here is sunny, sunny and sunny. Some frost but noh snow.
It's funny how now darkness has depressing effect on me. When there was just darkness, it did not make any difference.
But now when sun is shining few hours and there is so much light, it makes me feels sad when dark time begins...

Now there is actually difference between night and day, and I just cannot get enough from sunshine..




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Now there is actually difference between night and day, and I just cannot get enough from sunshine..


Can't complain about the amount of daylight too much here sitting at 44° 53' N. Compared to you at 64° 8' N ???

Tonight going to get a little chilly here in Minneapolis, -8 F (-22.2 C).
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Now there is actually difference between night and day, and I just cannot get enough from sunshine..


Can't complain about the amount of daylight too much here sitting at 44° 53' N. Compared to you at 64° 8' N ???

Edit: I actually mix with another coordinates...

That is quite much northern than were I live.
I work / live next to sea, so my locations are more like 60° 12`.


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Now there is actually difference between night and day, and I just cannot get enough from sunshine..


Can't complain about the amount of daylight too much here sitting at 44° 53' N. Compared to you at 64° 8' N ???

Edit: I actually mix with another coordinates...

That is quite much northern than were I live.
I work / live next to sea, so my locations are more like 60° 12`.


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Little bit cooler in St. Cloud -22F(-30C), but it warmed up nicely to at least 15F(-9C). We should be moderating for next two weeks. Warm and possible snow followed by a little cold about every other day. We have yet to get our January cold snap, but perhaps by the middle of the month. That would be about normal I think. Here is a nice site for local weather.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweath...01&searchType=WEATHER

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Some computer nostalgia biggrin
I send some obsolete HW to recycling and here is couple of photos. These has been taken with cellular so quality is quite poor...

Here is RS/6000 (upside-down) and AS/400:




Here is Token Ring stuff.
Those copper ports worked 16 Mbit/s and packet size was > 5k.
Best part on those was that everything was on front, even power cabling. Some manufactures put monitor port behind and if there is rack full of those, it is not so simple thing to just unscrew it and pull out, because there is six miles cabling on front of it. And there is not space behind also because network HW does not create so much heat that architect would draw hot corridor behind those..




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Here is Token Ring stuff.

Still using Token Ring???? Yuck tongue
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Here is Token Ring stuff.

Still using Token Ring???? Yuck tongue


Well..... Not any more..

Apropoo,
botleneck is not usyally LAN, it is more like GAN -cable here....

Please be so kind and take a look of monthly fee of 54 Mbit / 54 Mbit GAN -cable from ÖT&T on here...


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Token ring I believe was more efficient than ethernet in its early iterations, but because it remained so proprietery it priced itself out of the market. I do not recall specifically but I seem to remember that token ring was vastly more expensive than ethernet. I have not seen working token ring network for many years.

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OK. back to the weather.
We are supposed to go into a cold snap like back in '94.
Lows in the 20s below and highs not above zero. coffee
One thing good about the cold....it keeps the crime down.
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