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An update on my project. Lowes now has 40W equivalent LED non-dimmable light bulbs for $5. Yesterday I bought about 20 of them for bathrooms, ceiling fans, and exterior fixtures. I then went through my inventory of CFLs and replaced all my little used incandescent bulbs where they fit and aren't objectionable looking. I also bought 5 decorative types for $10 each for my kitchen table fixture (takes 5 of them), and wired in a compatible dimmer. I managed to scale down my inventory of replacement bulbs and put them all in a box, offering them to employees and will eventually give them to Habitat Re-Store.
 
Right said:
An update on my project. Lowes now has 40W equivalent LED non-dimmable light bulbs for $5. Yesterday I bought about 20 of them for bathrooms, ceiling fans, and exterior fixtures. I then went through my inventory of CFLs and replaced all my little used incandescent bulbs where they fit and aren't objectionable looking. I also bought 5 decorative types for $10 each for my kitchen table fixture (takes 5 of them), and wired in a compatible dimmer. I managed to scale down my inventory of replacement bulbs and put them all in a box, offering them to employees and will eventually give them to Habitat Re-Store.
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Heat pumps suck. Go passive solar heat instead. Be a real man and install goe-thermal. Supposedly you could engineer it yourself. With a heat pump you are essentially using electric heat.

You should probably just tear down your shotgun shack and build a passive solar house with firewood backup for long periods of cloudy skies.
 
Rune said:
Heat pumps suck. Go passive solar heat instead. Be a real man and install goe-thermal. Supposedly you could engineer it yourself. With a heat pump you are essentially using electric heat.

You should probably just tear down your shotgun shack and build a passive solar house with firewood backup for long periods of cloudy skies.
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Heat pumps are great in mild climates. Passive solar doesn't make sense for retrofit. An efficient heat pump produces 4 times the heat with a given amount of electrical energy then an electric heating element.
 
No, air sourced, four times the heat generated compared with electric resistance heating. Of course you could have learned that from the link...

Sorry, I don't have a shack. It would not be permitted in my HOA.
 
Right said:
No, air sourced, four times the heat generated compared with electric resistance heating. Of course you could have learned that from the link...

Sorry, I don't have a shack. It would not be permitted in my HOA.
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I kmow how heat pumps work. Retrofit passive solar. It coulsd be your calling and you would actually contribute something to society.
 
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Rune said:
With a heat pump you are essentially using electric heat.
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And again: An efficient heat pump produces 4 times the heat with a given amount of electrical energy then an electric heating element.

Are you now denying this?
 
Right said:
Post 62:And again: An efficient heat pump produces 4 times the heat with a given amount of electrical energy then an electric heating element.

Are you now denying this?
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Is it powered by electricity, hydrogen gas, solar power wind, nuclear fussion or what? I would say electricity, so again, u\you are "essentially" using electric heat, granted more effectively than an electric resistance heater, but electric none the less.
 
LOL! Electric heat is resistance heat. Do you know how a heat pump works? Do you understand that it can produce four times the heat of an electric heater? Do you understand how? It's not at all like "electric heat". LMAO
 
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