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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Are You Going With Me?
Christine, if you don’t mind a couple of thoughts.
Attic insulation is very much a case of diminishing returns. If 6-8 inches is great, 12-14 inches is much less of an jump in performance.
If you want more, install a radiant barrier. A real radiant barrier looks like strong tinfoil. You can get it on the web for about $150/1,000sf. in a 4″x250′roll.
The easiest way to apply it is to lay it on top of the insulation. Cut ten foot pieces, fold and staple a pocket in the end and use a painters telescoping pole to push it out toward the edges of the attic. It is the best possible bang for the buck you can get.The usual rule of thumb in AC is one ton per 500-550 SF., depending on amount of insulation and airtightness and climate.
If you look on the data plate on the AC compressor, the model number will have a number divisible by 12, or maybe 6. !2,000 BTUs equal one ton of AC, so if the model number has a number 48 in the middle somewhere, it is a 4 ton unit, good for 2,000 or slightly more square feet, 42 would mean a 3 1/2 ton unit.
Check on the data plate for required sizes of circuit breaker, minimum and maximum. Make sure the breaker they put in is in the right range. -
stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Are You Going With Me?
I loved on that youtube around 4:40 and 5:25 watching Anna Marie just grooving away.
Christine, are they replacing an existing AC unit or is this a whole new thing from scratch?
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Addressing Seditious Rhetoric… by jaango.
You are conflating treason and sedition. Sedition is one of those clear and present danger exceptions to the first amendment.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Addressing Seditious Rhetoric… by jaango.
NCBB. I can guarantee you that the militant right have no intention of establishing a government that will represent any but their own narrow interests. They do not want to establish domestic tranquility for anyone else but them. If you haven/t seen this, you aren’t looking. As a group, they think the 3//5 compromise was [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post The Impeachment of President Obama–Act I by Ohio Barbarian.
Is there a possibility that some in the GOP might look at consecutive impeachments and think they might be perceived as sore losers?
On reflection, nah. You are right. That would required some degree of introspection.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Addressing Seditious Rhetoric… by jaango.
Should be Federalist #27 and 28.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Addressing Seditious Rhetoric… by jaango.
On the Charlie Daniels blog a few weeks ago, the topic was gun control. I posted an analysis of the framers original intent as shown in Federalist $27 and 28. I said that one of the main reasons for a well-regulated militia was to put down insurrections in the states. In closing, I pointed out [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Little Cheeser
I’ve been thinking about writing a letter to Mayor Annise about proposing an ordinance requiring a standard of reflectivity.
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Little Cheeser
A couple of nights ago on LLN, someone mentioned a neighbor putting black shingles on their roof. because I am home inspector, I have this trick little temperature measuring gun.
I measured the temp of black shingles in the sun last August (in Houston). 165 degrees when the air temperature was around 93, Yes, we called it a cold snap.
I then measured some white shingles in the sun and some black shingles in mostly shade. 115 degrees for each. I repeated the experiment with a tile of Absolute Black granite and a piece of Alabaster travertine. Got about the same result.If you can stop 50 degrees of heat from even coming into your attic,via conduction to the underside of the roof deck, that’s a good thing.
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post What Your Recreational Marijuana Label Will Look Like in Washington State
After reading your comment, my first thought was “There’s a downside to smoking marijuana?”
Then I read the following comment.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Drone Pilots Expose Politicians’ Lies by David Swanson.
I have posted this before, but i think it bears repeating. I finally realized why I am so opposed to the drone war. It’s too easy. We risk nothing, bear no cost, have no reason not to kill someone. The question is asked at the end of the NPR piece if you’d rather see american [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post On Becoming One With the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Elliott.
Not a problem for a country that possesses the quodium bomb.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post On Becoming One With the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Elliott.
A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity. deals with ballistic (uncontrolled by internal forces) motion 2. Of course you can fire a projectile into space. Takes a big gun, though. PS. speaking of big guns, the very large 14 and 16 inch naval guns could fire rounds that actually reach the lower edge of space at their apogee. Also, do [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post On Becoming One With the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Elliott.
Damifino!
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post On Becoming One With the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Elliott.
As I remember 25,000 MPH (7 x 60 x 60)is escape velocity. The ball would be going much slower, but it would not fall back. As it loses momentum, the pull of the earth’s gravity also diminishes. 18,000 MPH is orbital velocity. Although you would fall to earth, the earth would curve away below you [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post An idea that dried up like a raisin in the sun. by mikebar.
I realize that this is just me being a picky little jerk. The special thing about gold is that it never tarnishes or corrodes. We used to use gold-plated contacts, pins and sockets, in oceanographic cable connectors. This was real state-of-the-art stuff like the firing umbilicals for Polaris missiles. Jewelry is largely a function of [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Heritage Foundation Faces Backlash Over Immigration Report
Didn’t we just go through this with Blacks and the Bell Curve?
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post A sustainable economy ? Think again. by cmaukonen.
Here are a couple of numbers to contemplate. There are around 8 billion acres of arable land in the world and that number is declining. There are around 7 billion people in the world and that number is increasing. It takes about one acre of arable land to feed one person Sooner or later those [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Religious right portrays Jason Collins as threatening black man who has ‘butt sex’
This guy “Coach”…who or what is he the coach of? I don’t know of any sports team that has a cross for their logo.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble by Steve Horn.
When I was an auditor at Transco Energy in the mid-80s, we had a 20% interest in a North Dakota plant, under construction, to turn coal to gas. It was 98% complete when the price of gas collapsed and we abandoned the project as economically not viable. I’ve seen it happen too many times, pump [...]
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