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Stupid letter to the editor of the day
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:37 am
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:37 am
From yesterday's Wall Street Journal. Can't believe they printed this one.
quote:
I appreciated Alexander Aciman's "Tender Is the Light of My Incandescents" (op-ed, Jan. 31) on the warmth of their light. But there's another kind of "warmth."
We've heard a lot of hype on incandescent's inefficiency because of lost energy. But where does the energy go? It's converted into heat. And when do we use lamps more than any other time of the year? In winter, when days are shorter, we need both light and heat. So the so-called loss of energy isn't really lost. It goes into heating our homes during winter. The trade-off is the cost of heating with electricity or heating with gas or oil, all being competitive fuels costwise. No big deal.
Marty Engel
Lake Villa, Ill.
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Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:39 am to prplhze2000
sounds like a smart cookie
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:39 am to prplhze2000
do you deny that lights give off heat?
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:43 am to TigerRad
enough to noticeably add heat to a room?
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:45 am to prplhze2000
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noticeably
probably not, maybe like 1% of your bill
the letter makes a trivial point, but a correct one
I just wouldnt call it the "stupid letter of the day"
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:50 am to TigerRad
My old babbysitter would turn the lights out if the house got too warm.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:55 am to prplhze2000
A light bulb may not be able to noticeably heat a room, but my tv sure can 
Posted on 2/4/14 at 11:58 am to TigerStripes06
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A light bulb may not be able to noticeably heat a room, but my tv sure can
Yeah, the plasma in my living room keeps that room noticeably warmer than any other room in my house..
Posted on 2/4/14 at 12:00 pm to prplhze2000
You would be surprised what you have to take into consideration when doing HVAC calculations to size heating and cooling units. I suspect the number of bulbs in your average size house is insignificant but if you are designing perhaps a mall or office building it can affect things.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 12:14 pm to prplhze2000
In the days before microwaves were everywhere, workers kept their lunches in "hot boxes" at work. It was a wooden box lined with foil that has a 100w light bulb (lamp) in it. Kept the meal nice and warm without cooking it. They also brought lunches in aluminum pie tins. I doubt tupperware would work.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 12:29 pm to Btrtigerfan
maybe he's using heat lamps like the ones McDs uses over the fries. I have seen dog kennels with a bare light bulb over them that was supposed to provide warmth. I just assumed they were interrogating the dog.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 12:36 pm to tigerinthebueche
Back in the day when my job required me to spend about 200 nights a year in a hotel. A room service meal with the stainless plate cover set on a lamp with a towel over it will stay hot till the lounge closes.
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