I remember as a kid in the 1960s having a mobile vaccination clinic show up in our small village in SK. They even had a fluoroscope as part of the TB screening program.
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Going further back, I remember when that watts per square metre (the 2200 in your weather report) was introduced as a replacement for whatever windchill calculations they were using before.
One thing many people I know get wrong about windchill is the effect on needing to plug in a vehicle's block heater. If you normally are good down to -20C on a calm day, you'll also be good down to -20C on a windy day, despite windchill being far below -20. The engine will cool faster, not farther.
No matter how fast the engine cools off, it still won't get any colder than the actual air temperature. Of course, that also means that if you are good for 4 hours at -20C on a calm day, starting with a hot engine, then adding wind means you might only be good for 2-3 hours.
Bookmarked! Thanks.
I've managed to learn that even without taking classes. Yet here we are with people supposedly so much brighter than my high-school grad ass who can't or won't figure it out. That's fine on the surface of it, nobody knows everything. But the people in government who have the responsibility to manage the country to the benefit of the population have no excuse for why they don't have the basics figured out.
... more consistency with our competitors...
They don't sound like competitors, but partners; collusion, no competition.
What happened to "competition lowers prices"?
Thanks for the additional information! I'm still trying to get past all brochures and promotions to real data.
it might make more sense to spend some money on insulation
Already done! :)
You might be surprised. I pulled 10 years of data for Lucky Lake, SK from environment Canada and the average number of days below -15C is 62. Our personal heating season is about 220 days (first use to last use, no matter how minimal). That works out to about 72% coverage for one of the less capable heat pumps.
Others have suggested a minimum of -20 for long-term reliability. I didn't do that analysis, but I did for below -25 and the average number of days is more like 21. IIRC, below -30 was no more than a dozen, on average.
Obviously, every household's calculations are different. Yours sound like it's not worthwhile from a strictly personal finance perspective.
Good to hear. As soon as we can afford it, we'll be installing one.
The subsidy doesn't cover us because we're in a mobile home. If we get someone to pull the axles off, we'd qualify, but that's yet more money.
Senville claims that some models are good to -30C. Even their "cheap" stuff seems to be good to -15 or -20
True enough. One of the teenagers on the school bus I rode required canes because of her bout with polio.