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**Timothy Schwinghamer (he/him)** @schwinghamer@mstdn.social · 2d *

Timothy Schwinghamer (he/him) @schwinghamer@mstdn.social

fossil fuels, we can limit global #heating to 1.5 °C (on average) above pre-industrial levels and mitigate the increasingly severe consequences of climate change. #Canada is a signatory to the Paris Agreement, and as such we should embrace our collective commitment to reduce greenhouse gas #emissions, in alignment with the #IPCC’s #scientific recommendations. Expanding fossil fuel #infrastructure would contradict our #international commitments and contribute to disastrous stresses on the...

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**Bytes Europe** @byteseu@pubeurope.com · 3d

Bytes Europe @byteseu@pubeurope.com

Mass. Gov. Maura Healey discusses ways to lower energy costs https://www.byteseu.com/873535/ #bill #DeliveryFees #DepartmentOfPublicUtilities #dpu #electricity #Energy #Eversource #Gas #GasBills #heating #HighEnergyBill #HydroPower #LowEnergyCost #MassSave #Mass.Gov.MauraHealey #Massachusetts #MauraHealey #MoreEnergy #MoreWind #NationalGrid #NewNaturalGasPipeline #OnTheRecord #OTR #Politics #program #PublicOutcry #region #state #StateGovernment #supply #utility #UtilityBills #way

**Earth Notes** @EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy · Mar 18

Mar 18

Earth Notes @EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy

We have turned our home #heating off this evening in #London and it is unlikely to go back on much before December.

**Clean Energy Wire** @CLEW@mastodon.energy · Mar 14

Mar 14

Clean Energy Wire @CLEW@mastodon.energy

Next German gov’t must raise climate ambition to avoid multi-billion-euro EU target miss – env agency

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/next-german-govt-must-raise-climate-ambition-avoid-multi-billion-euro-eu-target-miss-env-agency #energytransition #renewables #fossilfuels #heating

**Gemma Seymour** @gcvrsa@vermont.masto.host · Mar 10

Mar 10

Gemma Seymour @gcvrsa@vermont.masto.host

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

**Wordmark** @wordmark@mas.to · Mar 8

Mar 8

Wordmark @wordmark@mas.to

https://newatlas.com/energy/isomat-thermal-energy-transfer/ #heating

A super-efficient thermal transfer surface promises to unlock all kinds of energy efficiency use cases

New Atlas · Mar 8Ultra-fast thermal mats could power homes, or radically reduce energyHow's this for a set of promises? Flint Engineering claims its new, flat, thermal-transfer "IsoMat" can power entire homes, cut refrigerator energy consumption by 30%, and radically speed up EV charging while also extending battery life.

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**nieebel** @aligyie@digitalcourage.social · Mar 7

Mar 7

nieebel @aligyie@digitalcourage.social

#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.

Titel: In the Meadow Hills.
In order to provide an alternative to overdevelopment. Hundertwasser planned Meadow Hills in the 1980s, a housing development in northern Vienna. This community of energy-efficient houses nested into the landscape was designed to grow with the families that inhabit it. All buildings were to have green roofs to be used as meadows, forests, and vegetable gardens. The project was never realised in Vienna due to resistance from a local citizens' initiative that feared distrurbances caused by tourism to Hundertwasser's architecture marvel.

As a different project, Hundertwasser's Rolling Hills concept was eventually realised in the 1990s, but not in the form of an urban housing development. Instead, it was further developed as a leisure complex for the Rogner Bad Blumau thermal spa in eastern Styria. There, Hundertwasser was able to construct buildings nested into a meadow landscape, the likes of which he had designed in the 1970s as prototypes of his visions of a life lived in harmony with nature, such as the Augenschlitzhaus (eye-slit house) and the Waldhofhaus (forest-courtyard house).

1-7 (see post)
8. granting of window rights
9. more quality of life for the neighbours, not just for the residents
10. an Austrian way out of the cul-de-sac of city planning which will be a precedent worldwide.

Excerpt from Hundertwasser's mifesto "In the Meadow Hills", 1989/1996

"This is the house where for the first time in history human being and nature live together with equal rights. It was created by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and the architect Josef Kawina and represents the starting point for artistic buildings by Hundertwasser in Austria and other countries. Today, above all, this is a place where millions of people from around the world become aware of their longing for a life in harmony with lurself and nature. From here they take new hope back to their homes to their contries."

#architecture #Austria #Wien

**Clean Energy Wire** @CLEW@mastodon.energy · Mar 4

Mar 4

Clean Energy Wire @CLEW@mastodon.energy

Next German govt must continue decarbonisation of heating – industry alliance

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/next-german-govt-must-continue-decarbonisation-heating-industry-alliance #elections #heating #heatpump

**valentinzi** @valentinzi@pixelfed.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

valentinzi @valentinzi@pixelfed.social

Finished #oven #heating flues view from behind from the combustion chamber gas outlet.

#work #building #diy #handcraft #craftsmanship #bricklaying

Oven heating flues view from behind from the combustion chamber gas outlet. Finished fireclay brick walls.

#bricklaying

**valentinzi** @valentinzi@pixelfed.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

valentinzi @valentinzi@pixelfed.social

#Oven #heating flues walls dividing wall finished. Started to cover the oven ceiling with two #fireclay plates.

#work #building #diy #handcraft #craftsmanship #bricklaying

Oven heating flues walls dividing wall finished. Started to cover the oven ceiling with two fireclay plates. Two spirit levels placed on the ceiling of the oven. A normal spirit level in the background and a tiny spirit level in the foreground.

#bricklaying

**valentinzi** @valentinzi@pixelfed.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

valentinzi @valentinzi@pixelfed.social

#Oven opening for cleaning and wiping the #heating flues embedded in the #fireclay wall. View from the inner side. Old round frame with brackets of the opening fitted and sealed in the hole.

#photography #artwork #building #diy #handcraft #craftsmanship #bricklaying

Oven opening for cleaning and wiping the heating flues embedded in the fireclay wall. View from the inner side. Old frame with brackets of the opening fitted and sealed.

#bricklaying

**valentinzi** @valentinzi@pixelfed.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

valentinzi @valentinzi@pixelfed.social

Back wall of the heating flues of the #oven finished bricked, the sidewalls nearly finished. Custom round oven openings for cleaning and wiping the #heating flues embedded in the front wall.

#work #building #diy #handcraft #craftsmanship #bricklaying

Oven back wall of the heating flues finished bricked, the sidewalls almost finished. Front of the stove plastered with gray fireclay mortar. Flue gas outlet of the oven on the back left side. Tools such as folding rule and tiny spirit level, hammer, sissor and abrosion stone as well as a fireclaybrick are placed on the top row of bricks. Custom round oven openings for cleaning and wiping the heating flues embedded in the front oven wall. Finished fine plastered wall in the background with a round large oven pipe leading into the wall. A old wooden paneling is visible on the left, top and right edges of the photo.

#bricklaying

**valentinzi** @valentinzi@pixelfed.social · Mar 1 *

Mar 1 *

valentinzi @valentinzi@pixelfed.social

#Oven opening for cleaning and wiping the #heating flues embedded in the wall.
I couldn't get a cleaning opening with the dimensions of the old lid, so i had to drill custom #holes in two thick #fireclay stones. I used a special cutting drill on my angle grinder.

#photography #work #building #diy #handcraft #craftsmanship #bricklaying

Round oven opening for cleaning and wiping the heating flues embedded in the oven wall. View over the flat arch towards a second round oven tube outlet.

#bricklaying

**OccuWorld** @OccuWorld@syzito.xyz · Feb 23

Feb 23

OccuWorld @OccuWorld@syzito.xyz

This solar energy innovation 2025 is 10 times cheaper than analogues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_qxozFm4aA

$0.006/kWh

YouTubeThis solar energy innovation 2025 is 10 times cheaper than analoguesBy Sergiy Yurko

#SolarPower #Thermal #Turbine

**Global News** @glnews_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Feb 19

Feb 19

Global News @glnews_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net

Lethbridge business owners concerned after a winter without heat
Two tenants of a commercial property in Lethbridge say they have had no central heating this winter and have resorted to using small space heaters for months.
#business #weather #heating #Lethbridge #Canada #Landlord
https://globalnews.ca/news/11024425/lethbridge-business-owners-concerned-after-a-winter-without-heat/

Global News · Feb 19Lethbridge business owners concerned after a winter without heatBy Justin Sibbet

**Global News Canada** @glcanada_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Feb 19

Feb 19

Global News Canada @glcanada_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net

Global News · Feb 19Lethbridge business owners concerned after a winter without heatBy Justin Sibbet

**Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar** @yngmar@social.tchncs.de · Feb 19

Feb 19

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar @yngmar@social.tchncs.de

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.

Indoor thermometer/hygrometer showing 21.7°C and 23% relative humidity.

#Heating #Sun #Solar

**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Feb 18 *

Feb 18 *

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

It was -7 C when I got up this morning. -6 C when I got around to measuring the temperature outside, where our heat pump was reducing the air temperature to -12 C in order to heat air inside to +45 C.
Initial power consumption is 1350 W, which drops as soon as we approach the set temperature.
For a total cost of only about €1500 including installation (no subsidy was available so that's really the total cost) we can now heat our downstairs very well for very little money and with very low emissions.
http://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/search/label/heatpump
#heatpump #heating #savingmoney #conservingenergy