In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:13:56 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Furthermore, as Michele Comitini points out, many household and industrial >uses of energy can be converted from electricity to heat. Many were >converted from heat to electricity a century ago, but they are just as >conveniently done with heat. For example, gas-fired thermal refrigerators >work fine, and they were in widespread use in the 1930s. I saw some in the >1960s.
I find that most of my electric power consumption is used to create heat anyway. Both home heating and hot water. For 9 months of the year, space heating alone accounts for half of my power bill. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
