In recent weeks I've warned readers that some firms are increasing direct debits to take account of winter underpayments, just at a time when heating costs should be falling as we all turn our boilers off.
I have rarely warmed to Affleck, except for his bastard turn in "Boiler Room," but here he delivers a lovely study of a star, both shooting and falling: tall, dark, handsome, but wise to the fate of all vanity, and, though hardly whip-smart, by no means dumb enough to be happy with his lot.
"Basically, that company has turned every boiler or furnace that it services into a toxic-waste incinerator," Mr. Kennedy said in an interview.
"My kids don't even know how to turn on the boiler," he said.
The movie's first line, shouted from upstairs, is "Super, turn on the boiler!" The time is winter, late nineteen-seventies.
When outdoor temperatures fall to, say, 55 degrees, the heat timer might turn on the boiler for 10 minutes every hour.
Powered by eight boilers turning four steam turbines, each attached to a separate screw, it was capable of speeds in excess of 30 knots (35 mph [56 km/hr]).
It may not be obvious with the current flooding, but this winter has been fairly mild, which is not good news for British Gas if consumers keep their boilers turned down.
In many cases, he noted, building systems are controlled by timers that turn on a boiler for a certain number of minutes each hour in response to outside temperature.
At 1200 1400 °C, clay minerals, quartz and feldspar in PCC boiler turn into molten state.
