Re: xkcd: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

My Uncle (central Wis.) converted from wood to propane in the 70's.
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One very large convection furnace (called an octopus) in the basement
replaced with a simple propane furnace with integrated air handler.

Here in Tidewater Virginia, there are still quite a few of those octopus
furnaces, although they have all been converted over from solid fuels to
oil burning.  Coal delivery here continued until the early 1990s for
big apartment buildings and hospitals but had stopped for private homes long
before, causing people to convert over.

But back in the 1970s there was a big program from Virginia Power to get
people to install electric resistive heating (mostly baseboard heating) and
VEPCO paid a lot of people a lot of money to get rid of their old furnaces
and install electric heat.  I suspect they got all that money back very
quickly.
--scott


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