"Mark" wrote in message

Turn the temp up a few degrees or turn off a light or two will save
much more...

It takes about 2 Watts of power to cool the room for every Watt of
heat....so running a 60 Watt bulb costs you 180 Watts, 60 for the bulb
and 120 to get rid of the heat..

Excellent advice!

I did not know about the energy comparison - seems high to me. It seems
that it should not take so much energy to move the heat out. If so, would
Heat Pumps make sense?

RichK