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Ørsted shares fall 25% after it reveals troubles in US business – £7bn wiped off value of world's largest offshore wind company over possible £1.8bn write-down
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Opinion - Antonin Scalia was wrong about the meaning of ‘bear arms’
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How US labor movement can win at the bargaining table
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America is using up its groundwater like there’s no tomorrow: Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide
48 votes -
Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte turns twenty, beloved by millions and despised by some
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Judge rules against banks' request to seal documents in upcoming New York Donald Trump case. Records will be public with very specific exceptions for privacy.
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A Chicago cop is accused of lying under oath forty-four times. Now prosecutors are dropping cases that relied on his testimony.
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Centene to sell GP clinics and hospitals in exit from UK market
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Insulation R-values and diminishing returns?
I'm looking into insulating the attic above a closed-in back porch & the estimate also included adding additional insulation on top of the blown-in in the attic. What kinds of factors can be used...
I'm looking into insulating the attic above a closed-in back porch & the estimate also included adding additional insulation on top of the blown-in in the attic.
What kinds of factors can be used to think about the value of additional insulation?
For reference, I'm in Florida & keep setpoint around 80 degrees F most of the time when home, and 86 when not home. Power bills in the summer are in the $150-$180 USD range.
It's currently R27 and the quote is to add R11 to bring it up to R38. Code here appears to put new construction at R38 as a minimum, but looking at some charts - it looks like I might have already hit diminishing returns?
This chart I found on "Energy Vanguard" seems to suggest that going from 27 to 38 isn't much of a difference.
Does anyone else have any insight on when those diminishing returns are hit, and if it can make any appreciable difference in power bills? The house itself is comfortable enough, without large swings in temperature.
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'Like Snoop Dogg's living room': Smell of pot wafts over notorious US Open court
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Los Angeles is exploring banning cashless businesses, following the example of New York City, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington, DC
59 votes -
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Gorilla Tuning of Rexburg, Idaho, pleads guilty to criminal conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act, will pay $1 million in criminal fines, while its owner faces up to two years in jail
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A warning to employers that US NLRB labor agency has changed the rules governing formation of unions to be easier for workers and harder for employers to oppose
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Bobbi Gibb: The Boston Marathon pioneer who raced a lie that women couldn't run marathons
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US President Joe Biden is still trying to forgive student debt in ‘a very direct confrontation’ with US Supreme Court, expert says
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Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers
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Walt Disney Pictures VFX workers move to unionize
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Former US President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to classified documents charges
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US federal judge to hear arguments on Mark Meadows’ request to move Georgia election case from state court to federal court
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The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
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The new (improved?) face of public housing in Maryland
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Seymour Hersh article - The inspector of Abu Ghraib
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