sdkubota
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Burning wood is extremely harmful to the atmosphere and release numerous carcinogen contaminates..
Burning wood is extremely harmful to the atmosphere and release numerous carcinogen contaminates..
Geez. No BS here, I'm too old to start lying to strangers or anyone else. But I do remember suggesting to you that you investigate your extremely high usage. Several others too, tried to tell you it doesn't seem right. The average electricity usage by Maine households is ~600 kWh per month.
My usage has now been measured with three different utility meters, our old analog, the smart meter that replace that, and now the in and out meters that replaced the smart meter. They all agree with each other, so it is what it is. If my inverter was over-reporting it's output, that would show up in my electric meters as unaccounted for consumption.
Just my wife and I live here. We don't have air conditioning, our heat comes from sunshine and a masonry wood stove, no blowers, pumps or burners to power. Our lights are almost all compact fluorescents, they were purposely located to be most effective, ie, we are only lighting the area we use, not making the whole room bright. We have a dual-fuel range, propane burners and electric oven. Electric dryer and, now an elec. water heater which added about 100 kWh per month to our usage. We are on a well with an electric pump. I use a power tool now and then, but I don't often run things like my welder or a large air compressor.
Other than those things, what should I use power for?
Today is good solar day, I have an hour of decent daylight left and have already generated 22 kWhs. What can I tell you?
dave1949 said:Yes it does. I burn less than a cord of wood per year. Aside from the tractor and chainsaw fuel used to harvest it, it has the virtue of being carbon-neutral.
I have a fairly new stove. My understanding is that it burns much of what used to go up the chimney. Some stoves even have catalytic converters. Are you sure the new wood stoves are bad pollutants? I thought it was different now.
So your water heater runs 15 hrs/month then or 1/2 hr per day. Do you bath with a wash cloth and wash your clothes in the river?
sdkubota said:You're killing Mother nature...
You're killing Mother nature...
So your water heater runs 15 hrs/month then or 1/2 hr per day. Do you bath with a wash cloth and wash your clothes in the river?