28 Feb 08 07:08, Bob Ackley wrote to Roy Witt:

 BA> Replying to a message of Roy Witt to TOM WALKER:

 BA>>>>> Heating oil is up $.40 in the past week or so. 
It's now about
 BA>>>>> $3.35/gallon. Dunno what I'm going to do next winter.

 RW>>>> Start collecting used deep fry oil from the fast food
 RW>>>> joints...there's a method to clean and thin it so it should work.

 TW>>> For a Diesel Car that may work but it is Hardly practical
 TW>>> concidering the Usage rate for House Heating.

 RW>> If that's true and I doubt that it is, then put the diesel engine in
 RW>> the basement and the coolant radiator upstairs...run a 12vdc fan off
 RW>> the alternator on the radiator.

 BA> Use the diesel to drive a generator.

In tandum with hot water heat, that would be the way to go. I was about to
suggest that, and then had to go out.

 BA> Also FWIW, yesterday I made two discoveries:  (1) #2 heating oil is
 BA> $3.40/gallon and (2) nobody will deliver less than 200 gallons of it,
 BA> paid in advance of course. Seems it isn't cost effective to deliver
 BA> smaller loads.  Propane is going up, too, so that probably isn't a
 BA> wise option.

Nope...and crude oil has hit another new high of $103/barrel today.

 BA> It looks like a geothermal heat pump and a 6kw emergency generator
 BA> have moved up on my list of things to take care of.  Way up.

You could do with more insulation. Stacking hay bales around the house
would give you plenty of that.

                R\%/itt



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