A spate of rail accidents, both in the US and Canada, involving dedicated trains or large blocks of flammable liquid tank cars, has highlighted the vulnerabilities of the US DOT-111 certified tank car and resulted in new legislation and the higher CPC-1232 safety specification. To help its cl...
The standby losses of the electric tank are quite reasonable due to its small size, but the higher set point will bump that up somewhat; in addition, tank life will take a bit of a hit. I plan to monitor its performance closely and slowly reduce the setting just high enough to prevent...
We needed a new oil boiler (plus a new chimney and a new oil tank) so some of the capital cost we could offset against that, but it wasn't exactly cheap even though I did all but the drilling myself (£9k-ish). No subsidy. The heat pump has a COP of about 3 including all ...
Another 30 days should help those who would otherwise have completed their inspections." The inspection program is a new requirement developed by DEC last year, "to help underground tank operators dis- cover small problems before they turn into big ones," said Bainbridge. DEC began requiring ...
I just had my oil tank filled for the winter at $2.59 per gallon. This was a one-day 10 cent price drop on Friday before labor day. Today it's back up. Last year I had to prepay to lock in $2.69 per gallon. If we needed to we could use the wood-burning stove daily and the...
Any one with a propane tank had better get it full. Don’t know why the Nat Gas price has not reacted? Maybe Monday? If this is story is correct, and it is an indicator of what is to come, then the US is going to be VERY short of gas this year, as they needed some good st...
I just had my oil tank filled for the winter at $2.59 per gallon. This was a one-day 10 cent price drop on Friday before labor day. Today it's back up. Last year I had to prepay to lock in $2.69 per gallon. If we needed to we could use the wood-burning stove daily and the...
tank and settle before I can use it to water the garden. Which, at this time of the year is every 48 hours. Just another day. Edgy snarlin aardvark on August 13, 2010 - 1:57pm Permalink | Parent | Comments top Thanks for the Postcard from the Plateau Edgy. "that Verizon cut ...
``It costs me double to fill up the tank,'' says J.L. Harder, a 75-year-old retiree and poll respondent in Peoria, Texas. ``We don't go on vacation and don't visit the relatives.'' He isn't alone. Seven in 10 of those surveyed say higher gas prices have caused them ``fi...
13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the service tank is connected to the float tank and the inlet of the evaporation chamber by connection pipes, and baffles are provided in the connection pipes to substantially reduce convective flow of waste oil and heat transfer between the se...