Heat pumps are widely used in Scandinavia. Our climate is great for them.

There is also a lot of negative facts about mini splits. Cost, need more than one depending on house size, installation, extreme weather problems.

That pot of beans you have simmering on the stove top will also warm you up.

I try not to start fires inside my house

Thank you for saying this. It’s even more expensive when you consider the externalized health-related costs. https://www.dsawsp.org/health/real-cost-of-wood-burning

Record high child abuse, addiction, untreated common diseases, homelessness and the best they did was advocate for more cots doing nothing to slow the city’s growth industry in predators creating …

Yeah we’re under the canopy here. There’s so much smoke in this area because of it though. The yard is covered in cedar fronds right now.

So stupid to downvote this. I said nothing controversial like, “ban wood heat.” I simply stated irrefutable facts about the negative consequences.

Great time for solar, though if you are isolated enough to have no power and be shaded by trees you’re probably not poisoning too many people.

Also needed: power.

For those of us that live off-grid, having a wood stove is a necessity, not a visceral atavistic experience. We don’t have the luxury of having electric heat (would drain …

If you can at all afford it, and Redwood Coast Energy Authority can help pay, get rid of the stove and get a mini split. So many advantages. Clean, efficient, …

It’s less about the temperature and more about the cloud cover at my house…if the sun was out during the day, the house warms up a lot more than a …

Funny to be downvoted for stating facts that are supported by hundreds of peer-reviewed studies.Sam Harris was spot-on on this over a decade ago: https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-fireplace-delusion

Agree. Temperate rainforests are pretty hard to beat. If you don’t mind the rain. Which I don’t.

I used any, and I mean any way I could reach a possible buyer. Sometimes they didn’t even know they were buyers

One of things I love about this place is that it never gets cold enough to need a fire, just as it never gets hot enough for AC. We cut …

No diatribe. This is three strikes under California law, correct?

Personally, I’d rather not be forced to have a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, getting cancer or having a heart attack (among other things) just so my neighbors can …

While true, our emotional response to a burning fire is a visceral atavistic experience that tends to negate any health concerns.

Never, because wood stoves and fireplaces are a public health menace.

Depends on if it is raining, the wetter it is outside the higher the threshold temp for a fire inside.

None at all on my end🫠 i think i would have to have somewhere to go😆

Got it.

When we lived up by Wasilla the house and everything in it would have frozen solid if the fire went out when it got below zero. Here in DN we …

Good news.

I don’t think it makes flying much less safe, because those ATCs who do work will not hesitate to limit traffic for safety. But I still wouldn’t want to fly …

Ya obviously the same guy!! Super sad. Born into drugs, theft, and nothing to live for! Your point of view seems very one sided! Lessons learned! Did you not read …

Still not a typical route for marketing such large and expensive ag real estate. She is out of ideas and that’s why we are here. Period. Shes about to get …

If it’s the same dude in this article, I’m not so sure lessons were learned: https://www.northcoastjournal.com/news-2/freeing-aaron-bjorkstrand-30658792/