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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • If everyone had solar panels and thought like you, we’d still have globe warming

    Energy is heat. There’s no such thing as cold, just lack of heat.

    Trapping sun rays then releasing hot air warms the planet. That’s what your system is doing. Removing heat from your house and putting it outside while your electric motor throws out extra heat.

    It just doesn’t have the air pollution that burning coal or gas does.






  • If the 300m people lived in the same area and you got a true random sample.

    Sunsets at 9:09 today in Michigan

    Sunsets at 8:04 today in California

    Sunsets at 8:34 today in North Carolina

    Sunsets at 7:57 today in Alabama

    Sunsets at 7:38 today in Arizona (They are on standard time)

    Sunsets at 7:13 today in Hawaii

    Sunsets at 11:36 today in Alaska

    Someone in Arizona might want the sun to set at 7:38. It’s blazing hot all day.

    Someone in Michigan might be fine with sunsetting at 8:08 with standard time.

    Someone in Alabama might not want the sun to set at 6:57.

    Someone in Hawaii probably doesn’t want the sun to set at 6:13.

    Even if you split up the 1000 people to equally represent all states, that’s only 20 people per state.












  • There are the “I like to keep my house at 66°F because I like to wear a hoodie or use a blanket”. They are going to say that 75°F is warm or even hot for a room.

    If an average person sat naked in a 75°F room they would be happy.

    68°F or 20°C is cold for me. Even 70°F or 21°C. I keep my house around 72° to 74°F and bump it up or down a degree. Coming in from mowing the yard, bump it down, sitting all day watching movies, keep it the same, cold winter day, bump it up.

    Older people keep their houses at 78°+

    100°F doesn’t mean “not fit for human habitation”

    Anything above body temperature of 98.6°F (37°C) you are slowly cooking yourself. That’s why 100°F is important.


  • Might be popular in new expensive builds

    Standard house isn’t going to have them

    Really I don’t see much of a point for one. Crappy house with crappy plumbing, but they aren’t going to buy a fancy valve to make the problems somewhat manageable.

    Tankless water heaters are becoming more popular. The thermostatic valve would save you from turning the standard water mixer a little hotter when you run out of room temp cold water in the lines and the cold water from outside reaches the shower. Otherwise, you are always being supplied constant temperature water.

    I feel like most people that would be willing to pay extra for a thermostatic valve would pay extra to have an oversized water heater, or even tankless.


  • Yeah, they can weigh up to 2000lbs with a king-size bed. A king-size bed is 6,080 sq in.

    A fridge can weigh 300lb being 36"×30". 1,152 sq in.

    Fridge is .26 pounds per sq inch. A water bed is .33 pounds per sq inch.

    So while heavy the weight is distributed basically like a fridge. This is assuming an empty fridge.

    As for durability, a quality waterbed mattress is thick. You aren’t going to pop it or cut it without deliberately trying to.

    Even if you took a knife and stabbed it from the top, it’s not going to leak until you put weight on it.