Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors

George Neuner wrote:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:49:11 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
<tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
 

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:
>

I mean, my entire house is wired for 24KW and usually runs at more
like 4KW including a heat pump that heats the house.

>
Good thing you're not living in Germany, your electricity bill
would be enormous...

 Possibly John meant to say "4Kwh", which actually would a be a bit on
the high side for the *average* home in the US.
 If he really meant 4Kw continuous ... wow!
 

Here in Norway we abuse our hydro power as our primary house heating source, in our previous home we used about 60K KWh per year, which corresponds to 60K/(24*365.24) = 6.84 KW average, day & night.
This was in fact while having a heat pump to handle the main part of the heating needs.
The new house, which is from the same era (1962 vs 1963), uses significantly less, but probably still 30-40K /year.
Electric power used to cost just under 1 NOK (about 9 cents at current exchange rates), including both primary power cost and transmission cost, but then we started exporting too much to Denmark/Sweden/Germany which means that we also imported their sometimes much higher power prices.
Terje
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