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2023-11-18 -Great Cultural Revolution

Biden invokes wartime powers to fund electric heaters as he cracks down on gas appliances

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-18 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Wartime Powers from the "1950 Defense Production Act (DPA)"? This just brazen, Imperial Hubris.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-11-18 01:32|| 2023-11-18 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought Bee.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-18 02:44|| 2023-11-18 02:44|| Front Page Top

#3 I did too at first, Grom.

There are two types of Heat Pumps, 'Air-to-air' and Geothermal. Air-to-air heat pumps scavenge heat from the air around them. Geothermal heat pumps scavenge heat through a system of underground pipes, using the typically temperatures below the ground.

Both types are more efficient than a conventional system for heating and cooling.

The Air-to-air systems don’t work well in climates that experience freezing weather and have a shorter life span than conventional systems if run year round.

Geothermal systems are much better, but installation of the underground piping systems required for these can be REALLY pricey. Also almost impossible if one lives over the top of any type of rock structure.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-18 07:31|| 2023-11-18 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Like their EV plans, the end product uses the power that they are failing to build plants for.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-11-18 08:29|| 2023-11-18 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 It seems like this should be challenged. He can cite Valley Forge and Chosin Reservoir but he better be prepared to airdrop us Tootsie Rolls.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-11-18 08:46|| 2023-11-18 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Finally! A solution to the Nation-Wide Heat Pump Shortage!!! I have spent countless nights tossing and turning trying to find one and the solution was simple, just tell Stumblin’ Joe to invoke the DPA to solve the crisis that isn’t.
What a frickin’ train wreck.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-11-18 08:54|| 2023-11-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

#7 #3 Doesn't this contradicts the second law of thermodynamics?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-18 08:57|| 2023-11-18 08:57|| Front Page Top

#8 ^^ Not until the source temperatures (Planck's principle called them 'heat reservoirs', if I remember correctly from a zillion years ago) equalize.

They work pretty well up to that point.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-18 09:13|| 2023-11-18 09:13|| Front Page Top

#9 ^But isn't the whole idea is to make your house warmer than outdoors?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-18 09:17|| 2023-11-18 09:17|| Front Page Top

#10 ^^Mind you, I think gas heaters are dangerous.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-18 09:21|| 2023-11-18 09:21|| Front Page Top

#11 At first I thought it was the Bee. So they already banned most refrigerants, so the next step will be to convert from gas then make the refrigerants illegal. nice pley commie Biden.

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-11-18 09:59|| 2023-11-18 09:59|| Front Page Top

#12 The Heat Pump can actually extract enough heat from cooler outside air to heat an area, until it gets below a certain temperature.

Elves, magic and compressor pumps.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-18 10:09|| 2023-11-18 10:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Let me guess: Uses 1500W electricity to provide 750W of heat.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-18 10:41|| 2023-11-18 10:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Next up: Biden DoE will ban dryers and demand people use clotheslines instead to 'save the planet'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-11-18 10:58|| 2023-11-18 10:58|| Front Page Top

#15 /\ Won't happen. Rope clotheslines are a racist trigger.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-18 11:09|| 2023-11-18 11:09|| Front Page Top

#16 My mother refused to have a dryer. She could have, easily, but she liked hanging clothes on the line.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-18 12:09|| 2023-11-18 12:09|| Front Page Top

#17 All I can say is, if you live in a climate like central Florida, if you can't put your clothes on a line as soon as they are out of the washing machine (rainy day) you are going to have mildewed clothing right quick.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-18 12:12|| 2023-11-18 12:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Link to how Heat Pumps work explained in much more detail.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-18 12:32|| 2023-11-18 12:32|| Front Page Top

#19 Electric heat pumps are as ineffective as Biden's penis.

Posted by Regular joe 2023-11-18 13:44|| 2023-11-18 13:44|| Front Page Top

#20 demand people use clotheslines

Dual purpose...They humidify the outside air and perform carbon scrubbing at the same time.

There is a risk here of UV rendering some materials brittle. The clothes may also end up in Oklahoma.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-18 16:54|| 2023-11-18 16:54|| Front Page Top

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