Fireplace insert seems to be working
Heating bill was 250 this month. Last year this time it was $310. Hoping to get it down further.
We’re bad about electronics here, we leave the damned things on 24/7 and I need to stop that. I figure to get a Kill-A Watt and calculate what all the devices cost, and shut down all but the little stuff.
No, I’m not gonna teach guinea pigs to row a boat. Though the concept of collecting the static electricity from thunder-thighed mallwalkers has occurred to me as a possible untapped source of power.
“mallwalkers” – sounds like something out of Star Wars.
Or you could move to the Pac. NW. My house is heated by a forced air electric furnace, water by an electric heater, and all electric lighting. Bill: $124/mo. year around, and I usually get a small rebate/reduction on my Nov./Dec. bill to square things away. I keep the house at 68F. No air conditioner, not needed for only two weeks max. of above 80F temps. At any given time there’ll be ten 60W 130V incandescent bulbs burning from dusk to about 3AM (bedtime). There are half a dozen 48 bulb cases of 60W 130V industrial incandescents in the shed. I bought them through my job fifteen years ago at cost plus sales tax. I’ll likely not have to buy more bulbs in my lifetime. Burning at 120V they last upwards of 5K hours. The two in the shed are wired in series and have run continuosly for five years to keep the air moving out there. They’ll probably keep on keepin’ on for another hundred years or more.
I love the pacific northwest. Trouble is, I’d have to find a gig there