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dyqik t1_j8rgrwf wrote

There's a special prize to the driver that pulled out of a side street in front of me riding my scooter yesterday morning, stopped, looked at me approaching him, continued to pull out forcing me to stop, and then yelled that he didn't see me, and blamed me for not driving a car.

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dyqik t1_j6pgjcm wrote

I build cryostats and operate superconducting detectors - I've been handling liquid cryogens for over twenty years.

I've stuck my hand in liquid nitrogen hundreds of times.

The main danger from liquid cryogens is the displacement of oxygen from the area when it flash boils.

While small amounts of liquid will skate around on a vapor barrier (leidenfrost effect on solid surfaces), in volume, the boiling at the interface between water and the liquid will produce some amount of turbulence and mixing that increases heat transfer.

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dyqik t1_j6p34o3 wrote

It wouldn't stay frozen or have much ability to freeze anything for long - the ocean is big [citation needed] and cryogenic liquids really don't have a lot of heat capacity compared to water.

Freezing stuff also usually doesn't damage much, unless there's water to expand inside it.

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dyqik t1_j6a2c1m wrote

That's probably doable with enough movers. It's common to have to rotate large items over stair railings to get around corners.

And with the doors off, you can often use the cavity to get around end of railings type obstacles.

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dyqik t1_j6a1ese wrote

Via a deck or balcony might also be an option, depending on the apartment.

Measure the fridge size with its doors off, the doorways with the doors off and the stairway with hand rails removed (you don't need to remove any of these to measure).

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dyqik t1_j5zc7vy wrote

That's nothing to do with the fact that you use less gas in warm weather than cold weather.

Whatever you or I set our thermostats to, whether or not you or I wear a sweater, we will use less gas if the outside temperature is higher and more if it is colder.

The amount of power to maintain a temperature in a house is proportional to the temperature difference between inside and outside.

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dyqik t1_j5wmkby wrote

Not with the same feature set, it won't. If everyone got paper bills, they wouldn't need the billing section of the website. More customers using the online billing system means more load on website customer services.

Billing needs secure online payments, secure PII storage, a customer facing billing system, and a bunch of other things that a website without billing doesn't need.

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dyqik t1_j5v8awk wrote

"Warm weather" is not subjective. You can look at the National Weather Service website and get objective measurements of it.

Everyone in the same area gets pretty much the same weather, same outside temperatures, etc. Heating costs vary directly with outside air temperature for everyone, although by somewhat different amounts due to insulation, window treatments, etc.

If the weather causes my heating fuel usage to go up by 30% one month, it's very likely that yours will also go up by 20-40% for that month.

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dyqik t1_j5u7t7q wrote

99 Therms for the month to January 18th, $226.

This is on a 1400 Sq ft single family, 25 miles west of Boston (and so a little colder in January), from Eversource. Gas heat plus heatpump when the outside air temp is above 40f, gas stove and oven, gas hot water. At least one person working from home full time.

Supply charge:

$1.03778/therm

Distribution charges:

Customer charge $10

Distribution $0.60788/therm

Revenue decoupling $0.06848/therm

Distribution adjustment $0.46848/therm

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dyqik t1_j4i1o6r wrote

You won't need the Internet to be turned on to get keys, either. Plenty of people use 5g only nowadays.

Water has to be included in rent by law unless there's a specific meter for the apartment, low flow faucets etc. are installed, and the lease specifically calls out billing to the tenant.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-law-about-submetering-water-for-tenants

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