Re: xkcd: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 15:56:23 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

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Oil for heating is the worst thing ever.  Expensive and dirty.

>
I can recall a large pile of coal outside my school in grade one.  I
presume it was the custodian's job to shovel all that into a furnace.
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The next fall there was no more coal.  I suspect he was very happy with
the change.

My parents converted from coal to oil in the early 1950s. I can still
remember my Da digging the hole for the tank. With a shovel.

And his getting up in the middle of the night to restock the furnace
so it would be warm when we got up in the morning.

I don't actually remember playing in the coal pile (in the "coal
room", currently in use as a storage room), but I do remember my Mom
getting upset when I did.

Ah, the days of my (early) youth!
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"