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re: conserving electricity
21 oct 2000
prichter1 wrote:
>a couple i know recently converted back to gas heat from their wood stove.
>they calculated that each piece of wood had to be handled 11 times.
i pay $50 to load my pickup with about 1/2 cord of cut, split, and dried
wood at the chainsaw shop, whose customers drop off lots of free wood.
this takes about 15 minutes. driving 4 miles each way takes 15 more.
tossing the wood down into my neighbor's basement and stacking it takes
another 1/2 hour, and the labor to burn it takes another 5 hours or so.
the woodstove will also supply most of the wintertime hot water via a
55 gallon drum on top, which also extends the time between firings.
my neighbor spent about $2k/year heating her all-electric house before
using 2 cords of wood. that makes this labor worth about (2000-200)/24
= $75 per hour. not bad, but solar heating would be a lot less work...
she says that's aesthetically impossible :-)
nick
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