Fascinating and useful book. I can’t remember if heat pumps (vs boilers, furnaces etc) were included, but I do remember reading it online somewhere and wondering why more people weren’t getting them. Lack of awareness? Status quo?
Will discuss more in the future.
These days, the only reason why I go “shopping” at Costco with family is to try food samples. They’re a bit like the food and wine pairings in the Niagara wine region, without the alcohol. Usually, they have maybe a dozen or so food sample stations, with a couple of drink sample stations.
Speaking of food and wine pairings, I went to Niagara’s Wine Festival and it was nice but expensive. Tried new foods (like avocado fries) and drank several small glasses of wine. Each item averaged 2-3 tokens, or $7-10.5, considering each token is worth $3.50.
I found it interesting that they had this token system in place as it makes it easier to spend more and also reduces the risk of monetary theft (if you don’t count token theft, if that’s possible in the first place). I have never seen this in any other festivals I’ve attended in the past years.
In early October, we had family friends from overseas visiting us, and I thought the Flights and Bites was still available (Flights and Bites is offered by a few wineries in October mimicking the much larger events of Get Fresh in the Valley and Wrapped Up in the Valley). Of the four wineries we considered, 1 no longer had it (past patio season), no tickets to 2 (1 was junk food related – not interested, the other was chocolate and wine – called but no response) and only the 4th was available – pairings of ice wines with chocolate.
There are tentative plans to go to the November Wrapped Up event. I am hoping to try all 20 wineries. The most I tried was 11 or 12.