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<blockquote data-quote="Ryan Lantzy" data-source="post: 73356" data-attributes="member: 7"><p>Re: Home building/living suggestions wanted.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Bingo. This is something that mostly escapes people. If your heating system is on at all during the day, all of your household appliances are magically 100% efficient at that point, providing heat for your house. This is why I think that given the dangerous chemicals involved, CCFL bulbs are even more asinine for us folks in the northern climates. In the summer, our days are so long, I don't need to turn on many lights until 8 or 9 PM. In the winter, they are nice little localized heaters, knocking off the chill in the house as you sit under one and read (even better if they are reflector types). Plus, nothing can replace the warm glow of a tungsten filament.</p><p></p><p>That said, if you have a more efficient form of heating, then the waste heat isn't exactly free - but if our supply nearly limitless *cough* nuclear *cough* it would be moot. </p><p></p><p>I think as LED bulbs get better CCFLs will be relegated to the bowels of history where they belong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryan Lantzy, post: 73356, member: 7"] Re: Home building/living suggestions wanted. Bingo. This is something that mostly escapes people. If your heating system is on at all during the day, all of your household appliances are magically 100% efficient at that point, providing heat for your house. This is why I think that given the dangerous chemicals involved, CCFL bulbs are even more asinine for us folks in the northern climates. In the summer, our days are so long, I don't need to turn on many lights until 8 or 9 PM. In the winter, they are nice little localized heaters, knocking off the chill in the house as you sit under one and read (even better if they are reflector types). Plus, nothing can replace the warm glow of a tungsten filament. That said, if you have a more efficient form of heating, then the waste heat isn't exactly free - but if our supply nearly limitless *cough* nuclear *cough* it would be moot. I think as LED bulbs get better CCFLs will be relegated to the bowels of history where they belong. [/QUOTE]
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