On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:19:16 -0500 Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Craig McCluskey wrote: > > He's on electric heat only. > > And a lot of it if he's paying over $200 a month at 4 cents per kwh. I had missed that his electrical bills were $200/mo. That's 5 megawatt-hours, or 17,060,708 BTU. > Burning propane to run a resistance heater is only efficient if > you put the propane engine in the heated area. Uh, yeah, especially considering that only about 1/3 of the input energy is converted to electricity, at best. Exhaust and radiator heat recovery certainly will help. Craig
