Re: ENERGY SAVINGS

Posted by MirageFlatter on December 28, 2009 at 20:42:11 from (12.36.202.99):

In Reply to: ENERGY SAVINGS posted by MTC on December 28, 2009 at 05:06:15:

Insulation, better windows, etc. in the home. We've also made our home all electric, and plan on putting in electric thermal storage heating units when we do some remodeling projects in the next few years. These units run at night, on reduced electric billing rates, heat to a high temperature, and store the heat in ceramic bricks. We put in a air to air electric heat pump fifteen years ago, and find it to be affordable and efficient. My only complaint with it is it isn't a warm feeling heat, compared to anything with a flame. But we do have enough thermometers scattered around the house to know it heats to the temperature set on the thermostat. The cooling side of the heat pump in the summer is hard to beat in my opinion, I like it much better than central air. And while our local rural public power district has raised our rates 10-15 percent per year, for the last five or six years, it's still a better value than any fossil fuel. Something else we've found very helpful, both in terms of comfort, and efficiency, is ceiling fans throughout the house, blowing up in the winter, and down in the summer. I also used to be a big believer in heating livestock water in the winter, both with propane, and electricity, but have switched to the rubber tire stock tanks in recent years. In the coldest weather, they freeze a little ice across the top, but never down the sides, completely energy free. As far as travel goes, my wife drives 35 miles one way to work, five and six days a week, and we just deal with those kinds of distances to most everything as a fact of life here. There's only so much you can do, we try real hard not to make special trips for anything.

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