On 2/15/2020 5:18 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 15 Feb 2020 08:07:02 -0600, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On 2/15/20 6:00 AM, micky wrote:

I thought this would interest you all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automa...eather_station

Versions of these things are available for farmers to use for crop
monitoring. A farmer can use his smart phone to
check things and run his irrigation system accordingly.
They can use heating degree days to tell them when the crops are ready
for harvest.
Wow, how things have changed in the last 50 years.

It's amazing.

I used one of those when I put in a new oil boiler in my last house.
Using degree days I could get an accurate use of fuel oil for each year.

I put in a System 2000 from Energy Kinetics and it paid for itself in
just under 7 years saving up to 38%.