terry wrote in news:b2237dfa-00c9-4c1e-a2d4-
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Personally we find that in our cool climate, where every month of the
year requires some home heating (ours is electric) especially in the
evenings when the lights are most likely to be on, that regualr
incandescents provide a small portion of the home heat required!

A very tiny portion,negligible.I doubt you could measure it.


For example; much of the year our bathroom is heated mainly by the six
40 watt bulbs above the vanity mirror;

Not really. it's probably heated mainly by warm air from other parts of the
house.
Particularly since you say the lights are OFF when the room is vacant.

each bulb costing about 25
cents. So that the 500 watt electric heater in that room rarely comes
on!

Does your bathroom have it's own thermostat?


Another advantage is that the lights tend to be turned off when
bathroom unoccupied, automatically saving electricity.

Since incandescents are so cheap it looks like we will lay in a stock
of a couple of hundred 40s, 60s and 100s, for a cost of about $50,
when the time comes. That should last about twenty years! And any
extra electricity used will be offset by using less (electricity) for
heating.

Nonsense.

snip for brevity

BTW just drove into this small Arabian Gulf capital city at night,
over 50 miles of highway, light traffic, brightly lit with double lamp
standard every couple of hundred feet.

Sounds about standard,and how much traffic is on the roads doesn't matter
WRT the lighting of the roads at night.Road lighting is on at night
regardless of how much traffic.

All electricity here generated
by burning fossil fuel; hell they pump it and refine it! Gasoline at
the pumps here is 23 cents per litre, about one dollar per US gallon.
Hundreds of miles of highways and roads with street lamps burning all
night, around the world; much of the electrcity generated by oil,
coal, etc. Why?????

Well,they source their own oil,there's no shipping,and they own their
refineries.
No taxes on it,either.
And they may generate their electric power from their refineries 'waste'
gasses that have to be burned off.Or from heavy oil products unprofitable
for shiping elsewhere.

They earn enough on petro exports to GIVE their citizens a stipend.
(just like Alaska does for it's citizens,BTW)

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net