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ELECTRICITY? As you know, you use electricity to power most appliances
within your home. Gas appliances may also use a significant amount of
electricity to assist in their operation. AC units that heat with gas during
winter months, still use considerable amounts of electrical energy to drive
the forced-air blower. Consequently, the actual cost of heating your home
cannot be estimated by simply reading your Monthly Gas Bill alone. Your Power
Company is likely taking a big bite too. The wattage efficiency of your AC
Unit’s blower and the subsequent KW Hour Power Co. charges affect your true monthly
heating costs. That gas appliance is probably not as cheap to operate as your
might have thought at first; especially, not after your Power Utility gets finished
collecting their exorbitant share. All Americans need to learn more about their energy costs,
production, and available resources. Electricy is NOT a source of energy. Electricity, as we
use it, is quite basically a manufactured product, a frequency/wave of electrons,
generated and delivered over long distances through a regulated system of
conduction, consisting of cables, wires, and transformers, to your home at a
useable level. Thus, usable electricity doesn’t exist. It is created by
machines known as, generators. In purely elementary terms, the generator must
spin in order to produce electricity. Therefore, some real energy source,
usually a combustible matter, must be used in its production, such as coal,
gas, wood, ect., as fuel for an engine needed to turn the generator. Of
course, water and wind can also turn generators, if and when, they are available.
Neither wind currents, nor water flow is absolute. Both rely on ever changing
weather patterns. Our current western drought has affected river flow for
well over a decade, now. Water must be drawn out of a lake in order to
produce hydro-electricity. The water coming in, has to meet the needs of that
draw-down. If not……electrical generation must slow to meet the lessening
in-flow. But, enough of this. Let’s talk about the cost of electricity. You
pay for it in Kilo-watt Hours, Or KW Hrs. A
kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a measure of Energy.
And,
that’s more than you need to know. Most
bulbs in your home are 60 watts or more. One bulb left on 8 hours uses 480
watts. Two bulbs, and you’ve used about 1kwh. Due to current surging, switching
them on and off over a 10-12 hour period of the day will bring the usage
closer to the full 1000 watts. Incandescent bulbs are the least efficient
appliances in our homes. Home
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