It's December Already! November was awesome, December will be good too but nothing beats November 09.

24 days to Christmas and 30 days to New Years. Will 2010 be a good year? I think so. The 2010 cars are looking good, has anyone looked at the 2010 Camaro? (very nice)

I saw a VW Jetta in the airport (2010 of course) and it got 22 MPG city and 31 MPG highway... it costed like 29,995 for the base model. With a 200 HP turbo charged 4 cylinder.

Personally I'd much rather have a V6 Camaro with 304 HP, 17MPG city, 29MPG highway and a cooler looking body for 23,000. Or better yet 16/24 with 426HP V8 for 31,995.

Serious the 2MPG just isn't worth sacrificing the 100HP and that coolio body.

I'm on a roll here, posting so often. :P

So today is a nice sunny day and in November.. which is amazing! But I guess we had enough storms before now to make up for it all. I for one am Glad it's warmer and we don't have to worry so much about the cold so early in the season.

We're trying to get a geothermal heatpump installed which will result in a savings over coal methinks. :D

Currently we're doing electric radiant heat to keep things a bit warmer but with only a 3000 watt element we can't expect to heat the whole house on it. A ton of coal equates to about 20,000,000 BTU's and we normally burn one ton per month except in January when we burn about 1.5 tons. A 3000 watt element puts out approximately 7,372,080 BTU's per month and is more efficient than our coal burner. However with electric rates skyrocketing this won't be so good.

Now a Geothermal heat pump has anywhere from 5-7 to 1 conversion rates. So for 3000 watts we should be able to pump we should be able to pump 7,000,000x5 BTU's per month, (or 35,000,000 BTU's per month,) which we probably won't need more than 20,000,000 so it will be much more cost effective. :)

Coal costs 170 dollars per ton which comes to 2.9 cents a killowatt and whith our coal system only running about 60 percent efficient comes out to around 5 cents per kilowatt of effective heat, 6 cents is our rate for electricity but our power company charges 10 cents for every kilowatt above a certain threshhold which we do tend to run above.

If we ran straight electric we are looking at about 340 dollars per month to heat our house, but if we get a 5-1 ratio (7-1 is possible for our purpose) we should wind up with a net cost of 68 dollars per month, or if we keep the house warmer maybe as much as a hundred dollars. :)