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Need your own personal lighthouse?
« on: August 24, 2017, 09:22:20 PM »
Kinda clunky and not very attractive, but a lighthouse nonetheless.

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2017, 09:27:35 PM »
Too easy for visitors to access.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2017, 09:46:32 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on August 24, 2017, 09:27:35 PM
Too easy for visitors to access.

Also, it's in Maryland.  [barf]
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2017, 09:52:34 PM »
Are you that one bidder?  =D
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2017, 03:21:18 AM »
Yes, Maryland or Marywater, anyhow.  

Is that an outhouse hanging out over the water on the left side?



Oh, and it's Maryland.... or Marywater.

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2017, 07:33:18 AM »
Needs some serious work on the floors in the one area.

Wouldn't be good for me, either. Where would I walk Seren....
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2017, 08:00:59 AM »
Anybody else notice the fact that the foundation is WOOD pilings?

I'd love to own a lighthouse ... but not that one, thankyouverymuch.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2017, 08:06:28 AM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on August 25, 2017, 08:00:59 AM
Anybody else notice the fact that the foundation is WOOD pilings?

I'd love to own a lighthouse ... but not that one, thankyouverymuch.

Most of the entire city of Venice is built on foundations supported by wood pilings.

Some sunk as many as 1,000 years ago.

And they're holding up just fine.

And will continue to do so indefinitely.

http://theapprenticeandthejourneyman.com/2011/04/17/how-venice-italy-was-built-on-a-foundation-of-wood/



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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2017, 01:44:57 AM »
The government gets to keep the "land" you have to pay additional to occupy.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2017, 06:49:46 AM »
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Yeah, I wondered about that without screwing around reading every detail of the offering.

Is it on a tidal flat or something?

(I know there were places in the Great South Bay off Long Island, where the water could be only about three-four feet deep at low tide.  We used to water ski there, and would drop a lawn chair off the boat for one of the skiers to sit on while the other guys would ski with a lightened, faster boat.  Kinda spooky sitting there all by your lonesome surrounded by water up to your chest for a mile, half-mile, around you --life vest notwithstanding. Not a Fundy Bay kind of thing, but there were flattish beaches where you had to step along pretty good to beat the incoming tide.)

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2017, 08:55:00 AM »
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2017, 09:22:41 AM »
Looks like a perfect zombie hideout...

My kids want me to buy it!
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2017, 09:30:04 AM »
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2017, 10:24:45 AM »
It's got to be a stone cold bitch to keep all that concrete and brick warm in the winter.

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2017, 10:57:10 AM »
If the water were deep enough, you could install a geothermal heat pump system...

If you could get the permit to do so.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2017, 10:59:48 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on August 28, 2017, 10:57:10 AM
If the water were deep enough, you could install a geothermal heat pump system...

If you could get the permit to do so.

Apparently that is super efficient. One of the areas outside of Twin Falls, ID that I'm looking has geothermal. Homes with it are quite popular since it appears you can't drill geothermal wells there anymore.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2017, 11:04:16 AM »
It's incredibly efficient.

Why won't they allow wells to be drilled in Idaho anymore?

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2017, 11:16:51 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on August 28, 2017, 11:04:16 AM

Why won't they allow wells to be drilled in Idaho anymore?

I have to research it more as I'm just getting that from the realtors. I don't think it's all of Idaho, but rather the area between Buhl and Hagerman, where there are a bunch of hot springs. I don't know anything about geothermal geology - maybe something to do with too many wells drawing off too much water? We certainly have that here in CA with cold water wells.

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2017, 11:21:19 AM »
Not 100% certain, but I think virtually all geothermal systems are now closed loop. Too many problems drawing and reintroducing groundwater.

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2017, 11:46:57 AM »
Probably afraid they'll cool Mother Erf's core down too much and the planet will shrink too fast.


Hey, it's just as crazy as some of the other eco-verbotens.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2017, 11:57:15 AM »
If you've got local hot springs in the area, a geothermal heat pump might not work for AC in summer because of high ambient ground temperatures. But a great source for heat in the winter and exchange hot water year round.

Other than that, I can't think of any reason why a closed loop system would be an issue.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #21 on: August 28, 2017, 12:22:08 PM »
Why do these things always have to be so close to the coast? I'd prefer to live in one a bit more inland.
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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #22 on: August 28, 2017, 12:28:19 PM »
Quote from: Warren on August 28, 2017, 12:22:08 PM
Why do these things always have to be so close to the coast? I'd prefer to live in one a bit more inland.

Not really much need for inland lighthouses until global warming picks up a bit.

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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2017, 12:36:40 PM »
Quote from: Warren on August 28, 2017, 12:22:08 PM
Why do these things always have to be so close to the coast? I'd prefer to live in one a bit more inland.

They tend to put the light houses were the rocks are, to keep the boats from going over the rocks. And since boats travel on water, it makes sense to put the light house on the rocks.


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Re: Need your own personal lighthouse?
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2017, 12:45:07 PM »
This one i was interest in. But its now under water.  :'(

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