March Madness

[tunafish]

20 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

HTF did Portland jump from 25 at the 7:00 obs to 40 at the 9:00 obs

Looks like other nearby ASOS (Sanford, Brunswick) did too.

Fake cold->full sun?

[VivaManchVegas]

5 hours ago, Brewbeer said:

I installed a natural gas fireplace insert about 10 years ago.  At the time, I was looking to install a wood burning insert (or pellet insert).  Looking at the cost of the various fuel sources at that time on a BTU output into the building basis, what I learned was that pellets AND purchased cordwood are just as expensive as natural gas as a fuel source for a fireplace insert.  The only fuel source less costly is free (or nearly free) cordwood that comes from you property or that you can scrounge.  

As someone who has a wood insert, pellet stove, heat pump and oil boiler FHW, I can say with authority, if you buy wood and wood pellets and burn them, you do it for comfort only (that point heat source that is nice to stand beside and drive the cold out of your body).  We burn 1 ton of pellets and 2 chord of wood per year.  For the amount of effort and the expense, burning wood to stay warm is not a money saving adventure even at this elevated price. 

[mreaves]

42 minutes ago, VivaManchVegas said:

As someone who has a wood insert, pellet stove, heat pump and oil boiler FHW, I can say with authority, if you buy wood and wood pellets and burn them, you do it for comfort only (that point heat source that is nice to stand beside and drive the cold out of your body).  We burn 1 ton of pellets and 2 chord of wood per year.  For the amount of effort and the expense, burning wood to stay warm is not a money saving adventure even at this elevated price. 

My dad was a HVAC tech for 30+years and he always said everything was tied to the price of oil. When heating oil goes up, wood goes up, natural gas goes up, propane goes up. It’s all based on oil. 

[VivaManchVegas]

I remember when oil went over 5 dollars a gallon recently.  I found this tidbit on the google machine.

• Historical Real Price (Inflation-Adjusted): While nominal prices spiked in 2022 to over $5 per gallon, the real cost (in 2026 dollars) was closer to $4.09.