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🔧💡 EnerNET project workshop: Focus on the region’s economy 🌍🏭
The #EnerNET project is managed by the Institute for #Hydrogen and #Energy #Technology (iwe) at our university and consists of three individual networks: local and district #heating 🔥, #AirConditioning and #RefrigerationTechnology ❄️, and #EnergyManagement ⚡️.

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“They fired everybody, there’s nobody left to do anything,” said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, which works with states to secure funding from the program. “Either this was incredibly sloppy, or they intend to kill the program altogether.”

nytimes.com/2025/04/02/climate

A delivery of heating oil in Farmington, Me., in 2023. The program, known as LIHEAP, also helps to cover bills for cooling in summer.
The New York Times · Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAPBy Brad Plumer

We're in a bit of a warm spell here in Southeastern #Vermont, which is something of a comfort to me this year, with my #heating oil tank nearly empty, and at least 6 weeks of heating season remaining.

I really do not want the tank to run dry, so I may need to shut off the furnace early this year, and rely on running up my electric bill with space heaters for a month.

I really need a much smaller apartment, with modern electrics, thicker walls and insulation, closer to downtown. #urbanism

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#Hundertwasser #Museum in #Vienna

"1. an increase of #nature as an answer to overdevelopment in the landscape
2. life in #harmony with nature
3. forest and meadow air instead of "concrete air"
4. totally #green houses that can be walked upon
5. energy-saving houses, latently cool in summer, warm in winter
7. waste water and rainwater are purified in a natural way and are thus given back to nature as pure as the water was received", excerpt from Hundertwasser's manifesto "In the Meadow Hills", 1989/1996.

This sun thing sure saves a lot of firewood. I hear it may be going on all summer!

Haven't fired the heater since yesterday, just sunshine on the windows (reflected by snow, increasing its power) and whatever heat was stored in the masonry from yesterday.

Apparently going to be -15°C tonight though, so I better get that fire going soon.

Paying the heating bill.

Set up a nice firewood station now. The three-limbed stump makes a good log sawing stand.

Also rolled the old chopping block over there, shortened it a bit (it was too tall even for a tall person) and split the logs I collected from clearing the road.

The apple logs were in full sap (result of overly warm January) and frozen hard - the axe just bounced off. They'll have to thaw first.

Could use a slightly heavier axe.

"An Adventure in #YakShaving", or "How replacing a #Radiator took way longer than expected, because some asshole didn't do a proper job installing an isolating inner wall and left a hole behind it".

An ongoing story in four parts. So far. An I haven't even started putting up the new radiator.

Getting up at 02:30 to put more wood and coal briquettes on the dying fire is something people with central heating, gas, and electricity don't have to think about.

I thought about it because, though I was still comfortable under the blankets, my exposed face was feeling a chill creeping through the boat. The thermometer inside said 14°C (57°F). The ice outside suggests more cooling to come.