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   Lynn McGuire to Jay Morris   
   Re: xkcd: Truly Universal Outlet   
   10 Jan 26 19:31:30   
   
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   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/10/2026 6:01 PM, Jay Morris wrote:   
   > On 1/10/2026 3:12 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >> Sounds like a_really_ huge air conditioning unit, but I know that   
   >> building insulation is almost unheard of in the US.   
   >   
   > And this is based on?   
   >   
   > My last three houses, from 1996, have all been around R-20 in the walls   
   > and R-30 in the ceilings.   
      
   When I bought my latest house in 2019, a house built in 1998 with single   
   pane windows, I replaced the single pane windows with triple pane   
   windows with a clear plastic insert in them for sound reduction.  The   
   new windows dropped my electric bill by 40%.   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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