Re: CHEAP, SAFE generator xfer switch?

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Tom <tmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

There's usually a separate lighting circuit for every 4 or 5
overhead lights, and one for bathrooms and outside receptacles, and
two (or more) dedicated appliance circuits in the kitchen, and a
laundry circuit, and a 30A 240v clothes dryer circuit....

Apropos the "30A 240v clothes dryer circuit."
Every time I have visited California, there has always been talk of need for
additional power generation, supply etc.
Yet, if people were allowed to hang there washing out, what a saving that would
be. California has the ideal climate but seemingly continues to cut off its
nose to spite its face. :-)

The smart people change all the heating appliances they can (space
heat, water heating, cooking) over to natural gas (mains supplied) and
save a LOT of money, or Propane or fuel oil (on-site tank) and save a
little, compared to making heat with electricity which costs a whole
lot more.

With electricity you have to pay for the heat fuel used at the
powerplant, and all the fixed costs and efficiency losses in
generating the power and getting it to your house, where you rather
inefficiently turn it back into heat. With gas, you only pay for the
heat itself.

We've kind of gotten away from hanging out the wash - it takes way
too long if you are trying to crank through a week's worth of wash in
a reasonable period, is labor intensive, depends on good weather which
isn't a constant some places, and you end with birds perching on the
clothesline and <ahem> doing their thing... And then you have to run
it through the wash all over again.

--<< Bruce >>--

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