On May 7, 7:03*pm, "NotMe" wrote:
"harry" wrote in message

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On May 7, 3:45 pm, "NotMe" wrote:





"harry" wrote in message

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On May 7, 1:17 am, "
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On Sun, 06 May 2012 16:50:42 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sun, 06 May 2012 10:47:12 -0400, "
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Indeed. We both heat and cool with electricity and "only" spend
something
less than $1700 (five months @ $200 and seven around $100). $9K in
electricity? Yikes! Either harry is lying again, or he's worse than
AlBore.

Typical rates in Britain are about 22¢ per kW. A bit more that I pay
in CT, about 17¢

I paid a total of $1775 last year.

Like I said, I both heat and cool with electricity - 2600ft^2 (now
6200ft^2,
but that's an anomaly).

PV is ideal for cooling. Max power available when you need the
cooling.

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Not very efferent. If you have the sun light and space an absorption
system
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Or evaporative cooling in dry climates.

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Will be a time (some say it's here now) when water will be more valuable
than energy. * Swamp coolers (evaporative cooling) are typically not much
better then a 20 F delta T which is fine if the ambient temp is not over
100F but a bear if it's 110 F and above. *BTDT and have experience with some
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They only work in low RH areas. My brother in Australia has one. Works
fine.
The air temperature is niether here nor there.