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Old 12-17-12, 10:09 AM   #31
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14 therms last month but I was a bit careless/wasteful last month and would have been half that if I was careful.
About 8 therms so far this month for the furnace, probably another 2 for the water heater.
So about $5-6 so far of natural gas used.
Average 29.7f this month
3 of what I call substantial heating nights have happened where temperatures drop below 10f. We've been down to 3.3f.

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Old 12-17-12, 10:32 AM   #32
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Minneapolis, Minnesota (Where Christmas is colder than Anchorage)!



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Kinda makes me feel like I'm back in Bermuda..
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That's right, Minneapolis is colder than Anchorage and in the summer they don't really have so much of a cooling need. It's funny to realize that their cooling and heating loads are lower there. Not sure what their energy costs are but I'd imagine those conditions make for cheaper utilities, might even be worth using mini-split heating/cooling designed into the construction with heavy insulation incorporated up there, they are doing that in new construction with houses constructed using insulated concrete form walls in Wisconsin where they have similar weather as they do here, they use Daikin heat pumps that have some backup strip heating in case its needed but the people building the houses say the heating load calculations say the auxiliary strips wouldn't be used unless it got below design temperatures. They have the benefit of being near ocean moderated air temperatures. Minnesota is land locked except for our frozen lakes which don't help but do cause lake-effect snow, which I'm glad I'm not close enough to a lake to feel that pain.

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When I was a kid, growing up in warm-winter SW Texas, I always wondered why my buddy from Duluth never wore a jacket to school..
He didn't think it was really winter!

When it snowed, the boys from up north ruled the snow ball fights.
We got about 1" and it only accumulated on the grass and cars.
It was the only snow there during my 12 years living there.
We made the best of it. Snowman building too!


The conditions here are still causing frost on the Sanyos. Cold and the dew point tracking with the temperature..

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ELECTRIC WATER HEAT
DEC 323KWH 200 cu. ft. 50KWH

The residential and small commercial rate for district heating service shall be the sum of energy and customer charge as follows:
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All KWH 3.45¢/KWH
Customer charge $6.50/month

Wood heat, hot water by wood, cfl's everywhere. Very good month...won't see one like that again. Girlfriend moved in with kids.

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