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My Experiment to Compare the Power Consumption of Heat Pump Mode Versus Energy Saver Mode
Over the last eleven days I ran a series of experiments which limited the number of variables to two: heat pump modes and water usage levels. Rheem insists that their Energy Saver mode is more...
(Updated February 1, 2023 after a long series of experiments revealed surprising results)
How to Save a New Schedule
After opening the app (EcoNet version 6.x, not the slight variant called Rheem EcoNet nor the other slight variant called Ruud EcoNet), click the central area of the first screen...
(Updated January 31, 2023 after a long series of experiments revealed surprising results)
This series of three articles is about my quest to optimize the energy efficiency, operating cost and indirect pollution effects of a new heat pump water heater using the controls in Rheem's EcoNet...
Don't miss Arnold's magnificently conceived, 9-minute video message to the people of Russia, posted late on Tuesday, March 15th, 2022:
Не пропустите великолепно продуманное 9-минутное видеообращение Арнольда к народу России, опубликованное поздно вечером во вторник, 15 марта 2022 года:
On...
As "Trump" is German for Bullshit.
Little Vladimir, the world's #1 terrorist, strikes again, proving that the power-hungry, skilled liar is humanity's worst enemy.
Any populace that is either ignorant about the basic facts of democracy or otherwise unable to keep a wannabe dictator from...
This face reveals plainly the quintessence of the thing that National Defense is for. The life-long, KGB spy master has finally come fully into his own, but his character has never changed and has been as obvious as the contrived non-expression on his face ever since we’ve known him.
If WW II...
Election fraud is alive and well in America, and has been thriving for decades if not longer. It's millions of times bigger than voter fraud. And this appalling fact means that American elections absolutely are rigged. Trump was right about that, but of course he was lying about who was rigging...
I’m decidedly not a virologist, but I do pay attention, and it strikes me that a glaring omission continues to be made in explaining to us all about how viral infections and vaccines work.
A viral infection is a race — a race that starts when a virus gets into you and successfully enters a cell,...
There has been and continues to be a long-standing problem with the way that methane is described as a greenhouse gas (GHG). The proper way to describe the strength of the various GHG’s using a pound of CO2 emitted (or a pound in the sky) as the benchmark would be to say A) How much heat is...
The fate of the American republic, and therefore of democracy worldwide, hangs by a thread. That thread will either prove to be a lifeline or will be cut, most likely by next Monday, January 17th, 2022.
The Freedom to Vote Act and the updated Voting Rights Act must reach President Biden's...
There are only two things that one needs to know to thoroughly understand our 45th President.
The first is simply that he harbors good will toward no one.
The second is that his one great purpose in life is to prove himself to be the ultimate "winner" or “killer,” in the lingo of his family,...
Lawrence Lessig has another great new project to help save the republic. Ending the winner-take-all practice of the Electoral College process will return presidential elections to the principle of one person one vote and reclaim this most fundamental aspect of democracy from the catastrophically...
On Thursday, January 21st, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States, in what is surely one of the three worst rulings in the history of the court, perpetrated a heinous crime against American democracy and the future of the American people. The five justices responsible were naturally: John...
(updated April 24, 2008)
For some time it has been clear to me that the changes we're seeing in the arctic, especially, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that we have long since passed critical major tipping points in the Earth's climate system. Perhaps the most important surprise from the...
SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE
OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
DECEMBER 10, 2007
OSLO, NORWAY
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many...
Seriously, Al Gore's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize for his tremendous commitment to educating the people of the world about the consequences of our unsustainable mistreatment of the sky is another major turning point in the effort to prevent the unfolding global catastrophe from taking us to...
On Friday the 17th of August, 2007, a news report on NPR revealed that the extent of the Arctic sea ice had, surprisingly, just reached a new all-time low extent (area), a full six weeks ahead of the expected seasonal minimum, meaning that the low ice extent for 2007 would be a record low by a...
Please take a minute to watch this fabulous video spot that does something we've been needing for a long time, a way to visualize accurately this invisible but critically important process: Black Balloon.
Or this newer one, brilliantly illustrating the immense scale of our pollution: ...
On today's installment of Fresh Air, on National Public Radio, the climatologist Kerry Emanuel, professor at MIT's Deparment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, gave a very succinct explanation of how it is that human-induced atmospheric changes are indeed responsible for the major...
A new study conducted by NASA, authored by 48 scientists, warns that the so-called tipping points for the Earth's climate are much closer than previously thought. The critical thresholds for atmospheric CO2 levels may be "much lower than 450 ppm", meaning that we may already be beyond the...
(Update Nov 3, 2006)
Two Giant Crises Meet Opportunity for Solutions in California Ballot Measures
Last night, November 1st (2006), President Clinton addressed a crowd of over three thousand supporters of Prop 87 in San Francisco, giving a speech that if heard by the voters would result in the...