mstdn.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

Administered by:

Server stats:

18K
active users

spaf

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

A forensic investigation by the medical examiner's office determined it was carbon monoxide from a faulty furnace.

@spaf Oh, this is not funny. We lost a friend to this fate. Check your CO detectors.

@ELS @spaf

Is this another advantage to heat pumps?

@alienghic @ELS @spaf Depends on what they use for a back-up heat source...

@boffbowsh @alienghic @ELS @spaf That depends on a few factors. In parts of the USA, it gets cold enough that a heat pump can no longer pull heat out of the air. Second, storms can take out the electrical grid, so having an independent source of heat is vital.

This fellow has done some videos on heat pumps and their limitations:
youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnec

www.youtube.comBevor Sie zu YouTube weitergehen

@agreeable_landfall @boffbowsh @alienghic @spaf Just run a pipe down one meter into the ground and you find the mean annual temperature, which should keep the heat pump going fine.

@ELS @agreeable_landfall @boffbowsh @spaf

That's for ground source heat pumps which can be a good choice if you have room to have some drilling done.

I don't think its as commonly done in cities though, unless its eurropean style district heating

@ELS Everyone should have (at least) both a CO detector and a smoke detector.

@spaf
Ugh, I hate carbon monoxide detectors. All that beeping gives me a headache, nausea, and blurred vision.