Re: [EVDL] Coal in Your Stocking

Coal heating was cheaper than oil heat, but it resulted in a cleaner home with much, much lower routine furnace maintenance. Convenience and cleanliness were the motivation to switch to an oil burner or a gas burner. Coal heat is still much cheaper to this day than either oil or gas. 1) You

Re: [EVDL] Coal in Your Stocking

On 5 Dec 2015 at 17:53, Thos True via EV wrote: > As did the relatively easy conversion to heating oil based furnaces. Yep, you didn't even need a new furnace. You could buy conversion burners that bolted right into the ash pit under the coal burner's firebox. Look here:

Re: [EVDL] Coal in Your Stocking

On 12/6/2015 12:17 PM, Bill Dube via EV wrote: 3) The furnace had to be "stoked" multiple times per day. You might be lucky and have an automatic system that fed coal into the furnace and perhaps was somehow regulated by demand (and not manually.) If you were not so lucky, you had to hand

Re: [EVDL] Coal in Your Stocking

> In the past decade they overfilled my tank twice. > The house stinks for weeks... >...I had [oil] taken out 3 years ago and an air-source heat pump put in. Same here, and im never looking back. Oil and soot permeated the basement. And I also installed a heat-pump water heater and as a natural

Re: [EVDL] Coal in Your Stocking

Piped natural gas helped end much coal use On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:19 PM, lektwik via EV wrote: > EVDL Folks... > > I debated whether to tag this as OT or not. Could be considered political I > suppose if you _must_ separate an interest in EVs from conscious > stewardship of

Re: [EVDL] Coal in Your Stocking

lektwik via EV wrote: Reading this made me think about the great EV-related stories Lee has written over the years. A Christmas Car, By Lee Hart http://www.evdl.org/pages/xmascar.html How The Grinch Sold Green-ness, by Lee A. Hart http://www.davesevs.com/grinch.htm More here-

Re: [EVDL] Coal in Your Stocking

As did the relatively easy conversion to heating oil based furnaces. Many oil distributors started as coal and kerosene delivery businesses. -Tom On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:00 AM, ralph bagwell via EV wrote: > Piped natural gas helped end much coal use > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015