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    Living in northern Alaska just got easier.

    http://www.adn.com/article/20150103/...as-north-slope
    This article discusses some of the problems of building in some the harshest climates...like Canada. ST, are they pushing to use more energy efficient products in the Great White North?

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    Yep yep. both with new build and retrofit. local and Federal Gov'ts along with the utilities are all throwing money to homeowners to up the efficiency.
    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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    Do NOT mess with him while he's pumping gas.

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    I've got a pretty heavy energy efficiency background and I can say that even though I'm not a man made global warming nut, it makes sense to a point, to make things as efficient as you can afford. I'm all about conserving resources, but I'm also all about saving money. I'm about to go R-60 on my attic insulation, my original insulation is pretty badly settled, it's around an R-22 now, so it's time, and my electric bill is showing it. We already have radiant barrier, and the house is only 7 years old. I'd say our electric bill has gone up 20% and our kWh rate has gone down, so it may be 25% more kWh usage now. We're all electric with no gas available.
    Common sense is so rare these days, it should be re-classified as a super power.

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    I look at things similar to AK. When we got hit with the hail storm back in 2011, we went back with some foam insulation under our new siding. Don't recall the R value. We also went with a gray metal roof to reflect the heat load in the summer. It seems to have helped. When we built we went with 2x6 framing and loaded as much insulation as it would take. I'd rather spend a dollar on something I want instead of funding the power company.

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    The best way to survive brutal Alaska winters is to live in Florida and watch Alaska on Netflix...

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    Lol I concur
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    Still, we here pretty much slide along without issues.
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    lol! EB... but there ain't no hurricanes up here, nor in Alaska!
    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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    Minor detail

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    RIP, brother. We are diminshed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper-T View Post
    lol! EB... but there ain't no hurricanes up here, nor in Alaska!
    true, we get hit about every 6 yrs. on average. i will take a Hurricane hit, than spends days stuck home because of the cold.
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    In the last 8-1/2 years that I have lived in the country, I have been late to work twice, and never missed a day because of the weather.

    Our last REAL blizzard, one that shut the city down for 3 days was in 1997. I spent 80 straight hours on my snowmobile, taxi-ing doctors and nurses from home to the hospitals and back.
    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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