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Re:The Internet of Things – A Disaster by bjelkeman-again on Friday July 14, 2017 @07:03PM (#14773904)
I have an electric heatpump for heating and hot water. The first thing I did when moving in to the house was install a reasonably efficient, manual wood burning stove, with 2 m3 of wood in the basement. I have had the heat pump fail in the middle of the winter, but the wood burning avoided any freezing disaster.
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Re:The Internet of Things – A Disaster by ghaff on Friday July 14, 2017 @07:24PM (#14774020)
Of course, that assumes you're at home. I added a wood stove (in addition to a fireplace that I already had) partly as a backup. But I also travel a fair bit.
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