[GBlist] 100% efficient electric heat?

[RET John <retjohnd@home.com>]

on 4/27/01 21:41, John Herbert at john.herbert@kelcroft.com wrote:

Friday, April 27, 2001 22:37

> Of course, Carmine was referring to a "local" efficiency,
> Malcolm is correct, at the best plants in the world the overall
> energy conversation efficiency is at best only 36%, mainly
> due the primer mover loss and transmission losses.

and that is stretching it at 36%..........to bad so many peopel have been
led to belive that electric heat is 100% efficient. My father bought that
lie back in the 60's and had $1,500 dollar electric bills.......the all
electric hoem was teh wave of the future just like nuclear power that would
be to so cheap you would not have to meter it!
> 
> Electric water heating is convenient to the home user,
> but the overall efficiency is very, very low indeed.

very well stated John..........
Electric heat is NOT 100% efficient, at the end use......one's home nor in
the over all cycle or start to finished product. This is what people like
Carmine need to understand. They need to look at the BIG picture and not
just how it is used in your home. Also you need to convert all energy bought
by you to cost per MM/BTU's.........and then add the environmental and other
societal costs associated with that source of energy. Then and only then
does the true picture emerge. Sad to say it does NOT favor fossil
fuels..........
-- 
Sincerely,

John D'Angelo

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