It has been really cold the last few weeks, but now it is warming up, which means fresh snow. However, that also means snow work needs to be done, though it wasn't too bad today because it was pretty light snow still. But the weather is getting warmer, which means a lot of this is going to melt and turn into ice and sludge, and it isn't going to be pleasant. I will have to go and buy some gravel to sprinkle over the ground so we don't go ass over tit.
Our terrace looks pretty though.
By tomorrow, there will be squirrel footprints crisscrossing the snow, as the little fellas lives up in our eaves. They have been there for a couple years already, and they move in after the swifts have vacated at the end of the summer, and out again when they return in the late spring.
As said, it has been cold and I mentioned last week that our heating kept going out. Well, the fuse it is on kept burning through and I had to replace it every day and a half, and then reset the heating and other appliances and blah blah. So we called the heating installers (since we have had problems with it for five years already) and they sent out an electrician. He discovered that the original installers had put far too much running through the same circuits, so he had to spend a couple hours separating them out. Hopefully now, it isn't going to burn the fuse again.
If it does, they will keep coming until it is fixed.
We have had so many issues with our heating system which was meant to be easy and hassle-free. If we could go back in time, we would have spent the extra 15K (32K all up) and gone with thermal heating. It would have been far cheaper overall, as the cost of energy has skyrocketed, and especially when very cold, we have to use a lot of electricity still. If we win the lottery, I will make the change and scrap what we have.
Otherwise, we are stuck with it for 25 years.
By then though, perhaps we will be able to get district heating powered by small nuclear reactors, as they are starting to go into development and testing in the next few years here. Until there is a better alternative, I am all for more nuclear energy, especially if it can be done in simpler, safer, smaller scale ways.
Ideally, we will invent something even better.
If only we stopped spending on killing each other.
Unfortunately, humans are a shonky bunch of people, with many who would claim to be "good", just as bad as the worst. But of course, we can always find ways to justify our behaviour, no matter how inauthentic and disingenuous it may be. Like the people who have a silver cross around their neck, whilst scamming, stealing, defrauding and killing people for a little bit of money. Because if these kinds of people will be dishonest for so little, just imagine what some will do for a lot.
So no, I don't expect much valuable innovation that makes the world a significantly better place in the next few years, or decades. More likely we will keep descending down into the abyss until the fires of hell will keep me warm at night, and I won't have to worry about any kind of heating system.
Fingers crossed.
Taraz
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