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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:57:08 -0400
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Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 15:56:23 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
> <snippo>
> 
>>> Oil for heating is the worst thing ever.  Expensive and dirty.
>>
>> I can recall a large pile of coal outside my school in grade one.  I
>> presume it was the custodian's job to shovel all that into a furnace.
>>
>> The next fall there was no more coal.  I suspect he was very happy with
>> the change.
> 
> My parents converted from coal to oil in the early 1950s. I can still
> remember my Da digging the hole for the tank. With a shovel.
> 
> And his getting up in the middle of the night to restock the furnace
> so it would be warm when we got up in the morning.
> 
> I don't actually remember playing in the coal pile (in the "coal
> room", currently in use as a storage room), but I do remember my Mom
> getting upset when I did.
> 
> Ah, the days of my (early) youth!
> 
OBNonSF:  "The papers of Samuel Marchbanks", by Robertson Davies.

William Hyde