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Individual_Brick5537 t1_je9ag4t wrote

Reply to Coat recommendations by Necessary-Parking-23

I’m a cheap person, and you don’t need a great coat. I’m wearing a somewhat worn 15 year old coat at this point that’s lost a bit of it’s insulation. No single item will keep you warm. You need layers.

Get a wool base layer like for skiing. A good hat, scarf, gloves. You can get a thinner pair of gloves for under your winter gloves if you get cold. A balaclava or skiing face mask. And, a decent coat. If it gets real cold you can get some ski pants to wear over your base layer and regular pants.

That being said, you’ll also want to keep agility in mind for the climate wars.

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Individual_Brick5537 t1_je99tkj wrote

Reply to comment by Granite017 in Heat specialist for cold rooms? by Granite017

Did they do the energy audit? Did they say you have sufficient insulation in the walls? Is it a matter of the hearing system not pushing enough heat to that room? What kind of heating system? Is there a vent or radiator in that room? Any other pertinent details?

Not enough heat in the room can only have two causes. 1) it’s leaking heat out, or 2) there’s not enough heat going in.

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_je95s13 wrote

Reply to Looking at Boston's future as sea levels continue to rise by throwawaysscc

> "It's a network of floating marsh mats. They are interconnected and in the near shore environment off the coast… of cities and coastal environments and they work to both the physical mats themselves and the forces between the mats, through their connected mooring system, dampen the wave energy as they approach the shoreline," explains Louiza Wise.

I don’t doubt that these work on paper, but I question how they work in practice?

A few enormous questions unanswered by this article:

  • Boston Harbor itself doesn’t need them. Boston isn’t Scituate, we have a small harbor and an array of islands that already dampen wave energy. The only chop you see in Boston Harbor is from idiot motor-boaters violating the no wake zone.

  • Areas in Massachusetts that do face the full brunt of a Nor’Easter are almost all beaches. It’s almost impossible to get wind turbines approved a half dozen miles offshore because it could obscure their precious views, and now you want to litter their coast with a bunch of man mad floating putting greens?

  • if they were allowed and welcomed, how these work physically. With our tidal range of 10’-0” or so the amount of slack on the chain would have to account for that and a decent tidal surge (so they’re not bobbing below the surface) every time the wind and tide shifts these would all move, and being soo close together, some may foul each other and tangle. Who fixes that?

If these were installed on the harbor, especially in Charlestown like shown on the tendering, they’d mostly just collect trash floating in the harbor. Not at all a bad thing necessarily but probably not worth the money.

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