On Tuesday 08 March 2005 10:14, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:34:49AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >- Anything which gives out some light is giving out less heat. >> >> And that light, when its absorbed by a surface thats not 100% >> reflective becomes what? Thats right, heat. > >So... running a light bulb in a closed room (no windows) is "free" > as well, for a house that is heated by electrical resistance > furnace or base board heater? Yup. >I'm a little bit shocked by this. It's interesting, but a little bit >unbelievable... :-) > >My conclusion from this thread is - people who heat their house by >electrical resistance are paying too much. I knew this already, but >this illustrates the point. "You might as well heat your house by > light bulbs or computers!" And in some locales, the conversion from natural gas to electric resistance methods is proceeding at a high rate. In central Nebraska for instance the gas people have piggy-backed so many 'delivery' and related fees onto the gas bill you get that the cost of a btu of electrical resistance heating is 1/2 the cost of that same btu in gas deivered to your premises. People like 3 of my sons, who are in the Central City area, have converted to, or are converting to, electric heat, its only half as much when it comes time to write the check. The gas situation is so outragious that when one of them had the gas shut off because he was finally 100% electric, he kept getting a bill for $50 every month, not for the gas mind you, but because they left a gas meter on his property and were charging him for the lease/rental of it. He went to small claims court with a claim of $50 a month for storing it for them and won, plus the gas folks were ordered to remove any of their lines that entered or crossed his property. I can remember when the reverse was true, and gas was cheaper by far. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
