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kjpro @ usenet.com wrote:


"Mike Hartigan" wrote in message


The problem is that electricity costs so much more per unit of energy
than the alternatives that it can't be sold as an economic
alternative. Electric heat is 100% efficient. It simply costs more.

It doesn't cost more in all areas of the world.

In FACT, a natural gas fired, forced air furnace cost more to run than
straight electric heat last year.

horse****. try paying $.24/kw for electricity. lets see....we
burn natural gas to produce electricity.....and electricity is
cheaper? LOL too funny.

Where is electricity .24/kw?

The utility where I live burns minimal gas just enough so they can base
their production cost on it.
For example - using nuclear it cost 1 unit to produce one mw of electricity,
two units of coal to produce one mw of electricity and ng cost 8 units to
produce one mw of electricity. They list their cost as 8 units to create
one mw of electricity and it's perfectly legal under the recently enacted
rules deregulation. BGE works something like this
50% of the electricity is produced using nuclear, 40% using coal and maybe
5% other and 5% using ng. They legally state their cost is 8 units per mw
of electricity.

Can you spell rip-off. There will never be anything resembling a legitimate
completive market for electricity. Why?
it can't be stored,there's no real competition, the local electric power
grid weren't designed to ship electricity long distances, due line
resistance there's a greater power loss the further electric is shipped and
it stresses the power grids which were designed for local consumption.
Deregulated electric rates will never save consumers money over sanely
regulated rates. The next big rip of coming will be in "delivery charges"
already in some areas "delivery charges" and "customer charges" are
approaching the over priced cost of deregulated electricity.