Re: Suspension losses

On 1/13/2025 11:13 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:58:35 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 1/13/2025 12:06 PM, Wolfgang Strobl wrote:

You, as a person, don't need or consume heat. Somewhat simplified, you
need a certain range of temperatures.  In the ideal case, you don't need
any additional energy, because your body already produces heat. A little
bit of isolation, perhaps provided by that very blanket, might be
sufficient.

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And, I suppose, we could do away with all home heating, and just wear
very heavy clothing all winter. But I don't know of anyone doing that.

 I'm currently doing something similar to save firewood, which costs
about $500/cord delivered.  My bed has multiple layers of blanket and
a goose feather duvet.  During the day at home, I wear a padded jacket
and fleece lined pants.  I'm constantly moving around so I tend to
warm myself.  I usually wear a wool hat indoors to keep my head warm.
At about sundown, the temperature drops sufficiently to require
additional heat.  The wood burner runs in the evening for about 5 hrs
until I fall into the bed.  If I have guests during the day, I start a
fire in the wood burner.  The reason this works for me is that the
temperatures are quite mild during most of the winter.
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Right. We all make our arrangements based on the ambient conditions, personal evaluation of comfort and cost. Your system works for you, but here it's zero or "like minus 16F" while shoveling outside in the wind.
My very close friend, who's 82, lives alone and her two year old feature-laden wonder furnace quit Sunday evening at three degrees. The tech said it was a 'transducer' and the part is 'on order'.
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