Re[2]: America's future energy source?

["Davidson, Scott" <sdavidso@health.ohio.gov>]

     Bernie-This is Scott Davidson at the Ohio Department of Health 
     Radiation Protection (sdavidso@health.ohio.gov or personal 
     bsdnuke@aol.com) with a comment on America's future energy source.
     
     When you add in the capitalization costs for gas or oil heating 
     systems over the lifetime of homes, the offset in energy costs lessens 
     considerably.


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Subject: Re: America's future energy source?
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet
Date:    2/3/97 11:35 AM


 I use electric heating with a heat pump and it is little more
expensive than gas heating, even though we pay 12.5 cents/Kw-h (after a 
certain level, it drops to 4.5 cents, which is effectively what we pay 
for heating). It wouldn't be hard to live with this and I suspect that 
after a hundred years or so, we will all be heating electrically.
     
Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu
     
     
On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Alden Tschaeche wrote:
     
> Eric Denison wrote:
> 
> > For electric power generation, yes.  But until they can heat my house 
directly
> > with a small reactor, I want natural gas.  Apologies to all of the utility 
> > folks, but electric heat just doesn't cut it.  Been there, done that, don't 
> > want to go back.
> 
> I live in Idaho Falls where the electric rates are probably the lowest 
> in the USA (3.5 cents per kilowatt hour) and the houses are very well 
> insulated all over.  Most houses here are heated by electrical
> resistance wires in the ceilings.  It's wonderful heat.  Each room has 
> its own thermostat.  The heat is even.  No air filters to change or
> clean.  No fan noise.  The electric bill for my 3000 sq.ft. house is
> never above $220/mo even in the winter when it can get to 40 below zero 
> at night (but not often).  My wife likes the indoor temperature at or
> above 74 degrees F.  I have had gas forced air heat in previous houses 
> and hate it for all the reasons I like electric heat.  So, we have had 
> different experiences that have shaped our points of view.  Vive le
> difference.  Al xat@inel.gov
>