Most people hear a dialogue inside their head. I'm looking at an incredibly slow talker right now. Is his internal dialogue as painfully slow as his external speech?
Does anyone know of an air conditioner system that is designed to work with a lawn irrigation system? Where I live, I need air conditioning exactly at the same time of year that my lawn needs watering.
Some people spray water on the compressor unit with a sprinkler, but I'm not suggesting that. My water is very hard and would damage the compressor over time.
A conventional ac system compresses the refrigerant. It gets hot. Then the hot refrigerant passes through a coil, and a fan blows on the coil. This dumps the heat into the atmosphere. The compressor and fan system are a single unit just outside the house.
I'm imagining a system where the refrigerant passes through a coil inside a big water box/tank after being compressed and before going to the fan unit. Much of the heat will get passed to the water in the tank before going to the fan unit. The water in the tank would be used to irritate my lawn. If the refrigerant was still hot coming out of the tank, then the fan would finish the cooling before the refrigerant goes to the house.
The water box would get replenished with cold water every time the sprinklers go on. Water would flow from the well, which is just over 45F, to the tank, to the sprinklers. For max energy efficiency, the irrigation system and compressor would turn on at the same time. But it's best for water efficiency to water in the morning or evening, so I would not coordinate the ac calls with the sprinkler schedule.
Does anyone know if a system like this?
I have been campaigning for the US Congress to pass a law declaring that every penny coin is now worth 5 cents.
This is not a joke post. It costs almost 14 cents to mint a nickel, and we mint over a billion nickels per year. We have zillions of pennies in circulation. If every penny magically became worth 5 cents overnight, then the US government would not have to mint new nickels for many years. It would save taxpayers millions of dollars and increase my personal wealth by about $2.
When we have to start minting 5 cent coins again, the new nickels could use the cheaper penny form. Or maybe when we run out of pennies and nickels, by that time, we might be able to retire nickels and dimes.
Please write to your representatives in congress.
I know how I meet my CPD requirement, but I'm wondering what resources are most commonly used by everyone else? How much do you use the following?
* Webinars (live and/or recorded)
* In-person conferences
* Seminars like the Academy's Life and Health Qualifications Seminar
* ASOPS, USQS, the code, Valuation Manual, Practice Notes, state insurance laws, etc.
* Magazines & news letters from actuarial organizations
* Internet articles like from consultant websites, experts, Wikipedia, etc.
* Employer sponsored events, like if they hire an outside consultant to present
* Volunteer hours for the actuarial organizations
* Academic journals like NAAJ or Variance
* Structured courses like college classes, Coursera, DataCamp, etc.
* Free college classes without credit like MIT OpenCourseWare
* Other. Please explain.