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When it comes to chainsaw safety, don't go off half cocked.
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duffmensch posted:https://www.npr.org/2018/09/13/647621382/multiple-explosions-and-house-fires-reported-across-three-massachusetts-town Hooooo boy, what the gently caress! https://twitter.com/MassStatePolice/status/1040380980815687680?s=20
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Sep 14, 2018 00:47
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MisterOblivious posted:Hooooo boy, what the gently caress! Did they accidentally melt their own pipes?
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Sep 14, 2018 02:03
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So is this going to be some kind of infrastructure attack that over-pressured the lines, or just the typical fuckup?
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Sep 14, 2018 02:17
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I don't mean to be morbid about it, but part of me is willing to bet that a lot of the fires were started by older appliances that still use a pilot light instead of having an igniter. If it was some sort of overpressure I can see the pilot light getting turned into a jet and setting some poo poo on fire. Always keep poo poo away from your water heater is still something a lot of people haven't learned.
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Sep 14, 2018 02:40
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glynnenstein posted:So is this going to be some kind of infrastructure attack that over-pressured the lines, or just the typical fuckup? it's almost certainly the result of decades of neglect of public infrastructure coupled with personal privation in service of the idiocy of private wealth-worship in this backwards hellhole of a country OP
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Sep 14, 2018 04:08
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Found a live stream of the hurricane, at first I thought it was some insane dude sitting in his truck recording his house getting demolished, but he's actually just left the thing running and bounced, wonder how long the feed will keep going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7UhLrfb_M&ab_channel=WXChasing
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Sep 14, 2018 04:12
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Vanagoon posted:Always keep poo poo away from your water heater is still something a lot of people haven't learned. If there's one episode of Mythbusters people need to watch, it's that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bU-I2ZiML0&t=71s
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Sep 14, 2018 04:23
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Gunshow Poophole posted:it's almost certainly the result of decades of neglect of public infrastructure coupled with personal privation in service of the idiocy of private wealth-worship in this backwards hellhole of a country OP Don't forget there is currently a walk out going on and the team that is managing the gas services for the area is inexperienced replacements.
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Sep 14, 2018 04:27
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Megillah Gorilla posted:If there's one episode of Mythbusters people need to watch, it's that one.  It's the cement truck explosion but holy poo poo the new YouTube app sucks too much to search it up. Content control hooooo
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Sep 14, 2018 04:28
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Zil posted:Don't forget there is currently a walk out going on and the team that is managing the gas services for the area is inexperienced replacements. Yup! Union forever
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Sep 14, 2018 04:28
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Well I was thinking more along the lines of a fire hazard but yeah. Water heater's gonna 'splode when you disable the safeties. Temperature & Pressure valve to the rescue, probably quite literally in some cases.
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Sep 14, 2018 04:31
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Gunshow Poophole posted:
Here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IcHUHRf_S0
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Sep 14, 2018 04:46
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kamikazekamera
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Sep 14, 2018 04:50
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I have very strong memories of my college roommate flipping his poo poo out laughing at the noise that clip makes lmao
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Sep 14, 2018 05:05
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Another fatal nuclear accident, smdh.
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Sep 14, 2018 06:32
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And they talk about dogs chasing cars...
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Sep 14, 2018 06:34
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It's horrible but lmfao. Imagine being that guy in prison, legend.
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Sep 14, 2018 06:53
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I feel strongly that we as goons have a responsibility to this man in one way or another
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Sep 14, 2018 07:14
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Classic OSHA violation, with the negligent inclusion of a bloodthirsty predator as part of the roof structure. https://i.imgur.com/bLF4uAw.mp4
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Sep 14, 2018 09:47
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MisterOblivious posted:Hooooo boy, what the gently caress! So glad we don't use gas here.
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Sep 14, 2018 09:54
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His Divine Shadow posted:So glad we don't use gas here. Gas is fine. Worry more about the complete failure of anywhere in the US to spend a single penny on the maintenance of their infrastructure.
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Sep 14, 2018 10:14
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His Divine Shadow posted:So glad we don't use gas here. I'm so glad that isn't our company. Yet.
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Sep 14, 2018 11:05
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Memento posted:Gas is fine. im in a place in the US where a bridge failure just means the US mil has that much harder time getting to you 
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Sep 14, 2018 11:06
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Memento posted:Worry more about the complete failure of anywhere in the US to spend a single penny on the maintenance of their infrastructure.
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Sep 14, 2018 11:06
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haha i win, use your MIT tested MIC approved fast-bridging unit 
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Sep 14, 2018 11:07
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alligators are chill bros please do not harass them with four wheelers
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Sep 14, 2018 11:09
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Former DILF posted:im in a place in the US where a bridge failure just means the US mil has that much harder time getting to you Black helicopters need no bridges, bro.
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Sep 14, 2018 11:40
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evil_bunnY posted:It's this. They have gas in the netherlands and it's mosdef the best for cooking. Taste the meat not the heat
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Sep 14, 2018 11:48
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Memento posted:Gas is fine. Civil Engineers Report Card for US infrastructure. 
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Sep 14, 2018 12:16
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On the topic of Gas, specifically heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56DSH8tKUvo Technology connections is soooo good and I recommend watching every one of their videos. Vanagoon fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Sep 14, 2018 12:20
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*proudly sticks RAIL's report card to the refrigerator, tries not to make eye contact with TRANSIT*
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Sep 14, 2018 12:21
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Civil Engineers Report Card for US infrastructure. Boy that sure is a lot of Ds.
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Sep 14, 2018 12:24
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Memento posted:Boy that sure is a lot of Ds. No need to give any extra effort as long as you pass the test.
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Sep 14, 2018 12:44
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Vanagoon posted:On the topic of Gas, specifically heat: This is actually really interesting stuff, although I do question his knowledge on heat pumps. From what I can tell from using the unit at my parents' home, you really only run into a wall with efficiency and heating at really low temperatures, like closer to -30 C. At that point, you won't really get heat out of it anymore. But before that point it's still totally usable, without ever becoming as inefficient as using electric heat only. That said, he does mention commercial heating units with standard heating elements included. Unless I'm mistaken, the unit my parents have also includes a coil, both for keeping the unit from freezing over, but also to supplement the heating process during extreme cold by raising the temperature of the air coming in. So that definitely helps explain it. That obviously decreases efficiency more, but it apparently allows for the unit to actually run and produce heat in much colder conditions than normal so it's worth it in my book. Anyway, geothermal heat is some real cool stuff. It's becoming more and more common here and beyond the initial installation costs, it's pretty much the best heat source to use in a newly built home. I think having a heat pump is probably necessary to allow for live adjustment to temperatures - maybe the house feels a bit chilly in winter so you turn up the heat a bit or maybe you wanna cool down in the summer, either way a heat pump does wonders to increase comfort indoors - but geothermal is very much superior to every (realistic) alternative by a large margin otherwise. The only real issue is actually drilling deep enough to get a heat source. I understand that's not possible to do everywhere. Ruflux fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Sep 14, 2018 13:02
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What would be neat is cogeneration: burn gas to power the refrigeration cycle and use residual heat to supplement it. Doing that on the neighbourhood level with district heating might come out ahead, though. Electric motors and transmission are really efficient, and economy of scale on combustion engines is powerful. Still, piping hot fluids around is the worst.
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Sep 14, 2018 13:20
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Your mom seems to like it.
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Sep 14, 2018 13:26
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As a norwegian/scandinavian that video is just not relatable in the slightest. Homes get heated up by electric, and wood. Maybe if you're pretty old fashioned you might have an oil-burning stove that runs all the time. With heat-pumps being pretty ubiquitous as well nowadays. (And then warm-water heating in the larger cities.) (One of the old fireplaces at home did both oil burning and normal fire, in separate compartments.) Ruflux posted:This is actually really interesting stuff, although I do question his knowledge on heat pumps. It might be that he's basing his heat pump knowledge on the 'standard' ones for milder climates, which drop off a lot in efficiency after -5C. Instead of ones designed for colder winters. Also, if you've got an ocean nearby, the temperature outside is irrelevant. My home county ( tiny place, 9000 inhabitants.) has a seawater-based heating system. Where they have a closed-circuit that runs to multiple homes and apartment buildings to collect or drop off heat, then back to the pumping station to balance it out again. So every home connected to it just has a heatpump that cools during the summer, and heats during the winter, without the need for mounting heat exchangers on the buildings. The excess heat during the summer, and required heat during winter just gets dumped into / sucked out of the ocean. It's pretty neat. And is pretty cheap because outside of the heat exchangers and pumps, there's not much to it. They're even thinking of expanding it to use it for heating up swimming pools and posssibly making a skating rink. Since you can just use the excess heat from cooling the skating rink to heat up the pools. SubNat fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Sep 14, 2018 13:49
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Ruflux posted:Anyway, geothermal heat is some real cool stuff. Yeah it is awesome. My house used about a quarter the electricity of my bosses fully electric heated place. With solar panels we'll be over 80% self sufficient, and this is with winters that usually go as low as -25°C at it's coldest.
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Ruflux posted:Anyway, geothermal heat is some real cool stuff. It's becoming more and more common here and beyond the initial installation costs, it's pretty much the best heat source to use in a newly built home. I think having a heat pump is probably necessary to allow for live adjustment to temperatures - maybe the house feels a bit chilly in winter so you turn up the heat a bit or maybe you wanna cool down in the summer, either way a heat pump does wonders to increase comfort indoors - but geothermal is very much superior to every (realistic) alternative by a large margin otherwise. The only real issue is actually drilling deep enough to get a heat source. I understand that's not possible to do everywhere. I consulted for a pilot study on geothermal energy here in Australia in 2013-14 and the end result was the conclusion that there's literally no way it will ever work here. I've been lectured here on "hey why don't we have geothermal power" and "hey why don't we have 100% hydro power" and the answer is that this continent is too old and too cold for geothermal, and hydro needs you to have mountains and rain, and we really have neither.
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