> Those two things together means people freezing to death
What is the deal with americans and freezing to death? I’m from Scandinavia, and the only times I’ve heard people discuss that is in the context of someone getting drunk and passing out outside.
Fuck me, even if it somehow reaches -20C inside all you need to do is grab a few extra blankets and stay under them in order to remain warm.
If you’re really worried, just invest some money in a sufficiently warm sleeping bag. Installing gas as a backup would be moronic unless you’re expecting to spend months without power.
I think it's Americans invested in competing technologies, doing the modern cultural thing of hyperbola and escalation to the point of insisting that people retrofitting stuff with heat pumps are MURDERERS and clearly seeking to literally kill hapless victims. I'm seeing a lot of intense argument here that's going waaay over to the extremes of scaremongering, and the context doesn't seem to warrant using emotional arguments to shut down the proposal in shame and guilt over actually setting out to kill lots of foolish people. That seems… excessive, as a claim.
Me, I'm in southern Vermont, heat with a wood stove and oil furnace, and just replaced a deteriorating resistive water heater with a big heat pump water heater. I do envy the cooking-with-flame folks, though :)
Hi Neighbor! I'm also in Southern Vermont (Readsboro), also heat primarily with a wood, also have fuel oil backup, and also recently replaced my resistance water heater with a heat pump. I don't know if you need to envy the flame for cooking, though. We've got a fairly weak propane range top, and while the largest burner works OK, I'm thinking of upgrading to induction at some point.
What is the deal with americans and freezing to death? I’m from Scandinavia, and the only times I’ve heard people discuss that is in the context of someone getting drunk and passing out outside.
Fuck me, even if it somehow reaches -20C inside all you need to do is grab a few extra blankets and stay under them in order to remain warm.
If you’re really worried, just invest some money in a sufficiently warm sleeping bag. Installing gas as a backup would be moronic unless you’re expecting to spend months without power.