Random Thought Thread

Murphjd25 said:
Yeah below 35-30 degrees heat pumps don’t really work that great. Electric heat sucks the energy. 😔
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Mine's good down into the low 20's and it's a 3 ton 14 SEER. It's cheaper to run than my 96 rated propane furnace at $3 per gallon.
(It'll call up the furnace if it struggles and the indoor temp drops a couple of degrees below the setting.)

But then I keep our thermostat at 67* and I've never had an electric bill reach $200, and usually well below.
 
That's a lower rate per kw/h than we pay here by a significant margin. But the $330 fee is more than double my usual electric bill, so I hope that's for the entire term of the contract, not one month.
 
Currently have an oil-fired boiler, and will need a new one soon. State is pushing heat pumps, but F that. Could maybe see doing that with a new build, but retrofitting it into a system with baseboards? F that.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
You guys PAY for electricity?
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In CT, we also have the benefit of paying for other people's electricity...

What Is the Connecticut Public Benefits Charge?​

The Connecticut public benefit charge is a state-mandated fee on your electric bill. It funds assistance provided to low-income customers, energy efficiency programs and renewable energy investments, as well as offsets regulatory costs. It also supports the nonprofit ISO New England, which supervises the regional power grid.
 
Electric heat pumps have resistive heating elements that come on when it's too cold for the heat pump to create heat.

Electric resistance heating is wildly expensive. The power company is burning coal. Using that to boil water. To turn a turbine. To generate electricity through mechanical motion capturing a percentage of that heat energy as electricity that they send to you that you consume in a controlled short circuit as heat. 2/3 of the heat energy is wasted as steam out of the stack. What a stupid way to heat.

Electricity is very useful. It can do a lot of cool things. Using it to create electric resistive heat is an incredibly stupidly inefficient use of it.

Burning oil should be a lot cheaper but it's not because. I forgot why. Something to do with sulfur maybe? I don't know. Dinosaur juice should be 2 dollar a gallon but it's not.

Idunno. I forgot what I was talking about.

You people with your three digit power bills. lol :mad:
 
toker said:
In CT, we also have the benefit of paying for other people's electricity...

What Is the Connecticut Public Benefits Charge?​

The Connecticut public benefit charge is a state-mandated fee on your electric bill. It funds assistance provided to low-income customers, energy efficiency programs and renewable energy investments, as well as offsets regulatory costs. It also supports the nonprofit ISO New England, which supervises the regional power grid.
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We have this but it comes out of our paycheck to pay for people who want to take paid medical leave.

Communism. Here we come.

Although. We haven't REALLY tried communism or socialism... you know?

This time it will work.
 
Blues said:
Then I'm misunderstanding how your bill was over $600 using the numbers you've supplied. Regardless it's a lot more than my monthly bill comes out to.
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Electric heat is REALLY expensive. Learned this secondhand in college.

I was in an apartment with gas heat. A friend moved from their previous apartment with gas heat, to another apartment with (resistive) electric heat. Roughly the same sized apartment, the utility bill went from just over $100 in the winter, to $4xx, and that was just a 2-bedroom apartment in the 90s.
 
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