Special rates for electric cars would be nice for people with electric cars. Right now it is just as expensive to drive the average electric car as it is to drive a vehicle that gets 35 miles to the gallon.

It might be due to where you are, propane is one of the most expensive options in my area. Cost per million BTUs as a point of reference, propane is like three times more expensive than my electricity usage even if I were using coil heaters, which I'm not. I use propane out in the barn and just the heat a 20wx20lx10h insulated loft for the weekend costs about as much as heating the entire house for the month.

https://www.maine.gov/energy/heating-fuel-prices

Ah, now that is interesting. Do you have suggestions for further learning?

Heat pumps are designed to operate with a 40° change in temperature as their primary operation for those efficiency and price per month costs listed on the packaging. If it's negative 20° outside and you have to triple their primary operation power to pull heat from outside then, yeah, it uses pricey electricity. Even with the CMP rate hikes, it's still a less expensive source of heat in a well insulated location than any other automatic option.

Burning wood is cheaper.

It is

If you can, look at a small pellet stove for extra heat. Propane's double the cost or more per day of use and the wife will probably like the fire heat smell better.

Could be running a desktop computer 24/7 and adding $50-$100 a month just for that.

(Edit) keep in mind CMP rates with delivery are now around $.25 a kWh.

How do you do your solar? Is it on your property, or some buy+in program like the junk mail ads keep recommending?

How do you go about getting a heat pump rate from CMP?

I have a 1600 square foot house built in 1910 on pier and skirt foundation with block and brick at points, insulation is key here. We keep the house at 64° in the winter time and things get a little chilly due to insulation inconsistencies in the old walls. If OP is throwing real numbers here, then insulation or potentially an open air gap is causing his loss of heat and increase in bill. The electric company also doubled the cost of electricity between 2019 and today.

Something's fishy, $100 in natural gas or propane would not heat a two bedroom house at 60° temperatures for a week. If it did, then you need to look and see if somebody left a window open upstairs in your attic or something this year.

Yes, and that's just an old house using an oil burner and not having more than 4-in thick exterior walls with inconsistent insulation and plaster.

In theory, if your heat pump is your only heat source, you're running it like you would air conditioning during the summer. All the damn time.

Keep in mind, this dude was doing $300 a month in electricity before the install and running a boiler with whatever fuel source that used per month.

I did the same cycle with oil as our primary heat for the first year here and switched over to a heat pump. We had a $200 a month electric bill in the winter with oil heat and a $400 a month bill using all electric heat pumps for the entire house the next year at the same time with similar weather. The cost of oil, assuming it hadn't gone up at all over that time, would have been double that electricity cost.

Wood stoves are cheapest, but require work. Pellets are easier, but still work.

A single pellet stove will burn a 40 lb bag of pellets in a day and use electricity to run the blower. That average's out and about $8 for one pellet stove to operate a day. You'd have to run fans or something throughout a large house to get the heat from a central location to your separate rooms. If you're using ducted fans then that's an extra electricity cost on top of the pellet heater. Assuming my heat pump runs constantly on a 0° day, it uses 48 KW a day. At CMP rates with their normal billing option, that is about 12 bucks a day. Thanks to CMP's new cost per kilowatt it is not the cheapest solution for house heat in Maine, but it will heat your entire 1600 square foot house.

Cartographers just stopped exploring and drew random lines

Well, track down their power providers. I guarantee they're buying offsets to make that claim for you.

One of the spatial orientation things that often gets overlooked or discarded in games is activity reflections. Irl if an activity is taking place behind you, the reflection of that activity is present on every surface around you, not just mirrors. This general surface reflectivity function is lost when the camera view is the only thing being rendered.

I don't know about everyone else, but this doesn't sound like a thing any competitive game winner will use unless it's required by the tournament.

Porch pirates going to chase these with bolos.

I also am not a fan of Elon or his business practises or the mismanagement of EV marketing over the past two decades from him and any of the fanboys on that particular side of the playing field. I also, however, have been around long enough to know that each vehicle and each "fuel source" will have its proponents and its naysayers and eventually everything works out to whatever the easiest possible method is for getting something done with the appropriate tool at hand. I think every single one of these should be developed to their extent and the market should decide which one is the easiest thing to work with for the desired outcome and desired cost.

Also, fuel cells deliver power to a battery, so...

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If it's about point of use variables and if all production, transport, and useage "carbon impact" costs were equal, then hydrogen is great for personal transport. Unfortunately, production and transport aren't equal. Applications like jet fuel where hydrogen is part of a controlled reaction for thrust are way different that hydrogen applications in vehicles where hydrogen is part of the electrical discharge process to power electrical batteries that then deliver energy for motors. In the EV Vs Hydrogen dialogues online most people seem to think that hydrogen cars and busses are "burning" hydrogen and that is not the case.

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