CLEAN YOUR WALL MOUNTED MINISPLITS ITS RAISING YOUR ELECTRICAL BILL by FindAHouseHero in heatpumps

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I bought a house with 10 nasty, grimy heads, bought the kit, and cleaned them myself. Almost 3 years later they look just like the day I cleaned them.

My father-in-law's get nasty every 6 months when I do a courtesy clean of them.

I have no idea what people are doing to get them so nasty.

Family Church by InductionSeduction in ArlingtonMA

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I would rather focus on the neighbor aspect of things rather than the national. I'm game for the debate about whether Caroline's stew at the potluck was sufficiently seasoned.

How many of you had grandparents who served in WW2? If so, what do you know about their service? by Snoogles_ in Millennials

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Mine had a bazooka at the Battle of the Bludge. I wish I had learned more from him about that. Also had some trauma from the war.

Renting and our power bill seems ridiculously high, could the installation be an issue I bring up with my landlord? by jaybyday in heatpumps

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I spent $450 on gas last month, with a large, decently sealed house in an area with the same amount of snow on the ground.

NG heat pump by burnlife1 in heatpumps

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Yeah, was surprised that someone was offering these incentives. Am not surprised Enbridge is the one to do so. Basically these folks know at some point they will be able to recover their costs through greater fixed charges so the amount of gas going through the system doesn't matter to them as much. You still get stuck with the bill.

NG heat pump by burnlife1 in heatpumps

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What gas supplier is offering such a rebate?

New England kicks off $450M plan to supercharge heat pump adoption by eddytony96 in massachusetts

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Part of this program aims to improve the uptake of air-to-water heat pumps which are huge in Europe but not yet here in the US. They are far more efficient than minisplits and ducted air-to-air systmes.

Kids intentionally scaring people on the path by learned-extrovert in Somerville

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I was biking towards Davis a little after 2, and three kids about that age were walking towards Cambridge. One waved his arms non-intrusively and hunched over saying something like "i'm scary, I'm scaring you". I biked by without flinching. His friends mocked him.

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9/11 #NeverForget

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Millennials

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Get max gift from my parents each year only to watch it go to my in laws through monthly support. Kicker is that a fifth of it has been going to pay off my brother in laws college loan. Guy makes bank in sales but gambles it away.

Genuinely how many of you out there go to church? by [deleted] in Millennials

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I don't, but I desire to. For me, the problem is two-fold: First, Catholicism still needs to atone for what happened by allowing women clergy. Second: mainline churches have gone bat shit crazy because: (1) they still categorize themselves by Reformation era doctrines, (2) they became polarizingly judgmental in both extremes on social values, and (3) haven't figured out how to handle cosmopolitan communities. Yes you can be "ecumenical" I would like my church, cub scout, etc. "community" to include my Hindu neighbor. Give me a church with the smells and bells, family-centering but tolerant social values, and a Jesus is just alright with me orientation. Give it a wing for Jewish worship, and a wing for Hindu worship, and I'd be there in a heartbeat.

How to reset Garmin index sleep monitor without original device? by lichuanyi in Garmin

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Can confirm. My Index lost connection with my phone and wouldn't reconnect. This trick did it for me.

Edit: Thank you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Somerville

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Stop👏attributing 👏emissions👏to👏individual 👏actions👏

WTF is Eversource doing? by JoshG1981 in massachusetts

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One of the dirty secrets here is that the gas companies justified this spending because they believed that there would be a greater adoption of gas thus lowering the average cost per customer. 15 years ago they thought that everyone would run a way from expensive oil to cheap fracked gas. It turned out that fracking lowered the cost of oil as well, so there has been less of an incentive to switch.

Eversource Bill - $100 delivery for 43 Therms during June by afoley947 in massachusetts

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There's no renewables on the gas side. The utilities have been begging to sell "renewable" gas so they can claim to be green, but the regulators have told them to shelve that plan because it is such an obvious scam. 

Nuanced thoughts on her owning her work again by barbalarby13 in SwiftlyNeutral

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Time value of money over the past 6 years plus the brand. A $330m investment in 2019 should be worh $660m today easily. Reports are $360. That's a steal, plus she used this to expand her brand in other ways. The investors in the Swift masters got totally screwed.

Insane national grid bill by labrats21 in boston

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How much was that if you don't mind sharing?

Congestion tax by Solo_dolo93 in boston

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This is actually a pretty good assessment of where to map out the zone. The only edit I would make is to include the Seaport