Annual power consumption at your residence?
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I thought about how to collect enough information to answer the poll for about a second or two and then voted for the hamster option. Hopefully anyone attempting to compare answers will take into account that most people will only consider their electric power consumption.
We have a natural gas furnace, water heater and stove. Quite a few people have electric water heaters and stoves and some have electric baseboard or radiant floor heating. Their "power consumption" is significantly greater than mine even though we use about the same amount of energy (I'll ignore the cost of conversion from some other energy source to electric power). My electric bill usually drops to around $30 to $40 a month through the winter so I'm not using much "power" but has been close to $200 a month in the summer when the air conditioner runs. My natural gas bill does just the opposite (high in the winter; low in the summer).
And then there are people like my sister-in-law who heats her house with a wood burning stove. What's her "power consumption" when she's got the stove going? She also has electric baseboard heat which she rarely uses since it's much cheaper to burn wood in the stove but the two heat sources are complementary. That is, burning wood in her stove offsets a significant portion of her potential "power consumption."
Really useless poll.
Cheers,
Dave
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I chose it because I have no idea how much power I consume. I suspect that others acted similarly.
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The problem is the clothes you are wearing. Cotton molds quickly. I have lived in Tallahassee Florida when I was a kid and now live in Japan. Florida has nothing on Japan with respect to humidity. When Americans come here I tell them not to bring much clothing -- just buy new stuff when they show up because anything they bring will get moldy.
I don't run AC here at all and I don't have moldy clothes. I don't even have a drier -- hang everything up. Sometimes it takes 3 days to dry (or more correctly sometimes it takes 3 days to get to a day that is dry enough to dry the clothes).
You can always find excuses, but these energy sucking machines aren't usually necessary. Personally speaking, I actually even prefer living this way now that I'm used to it. You just need enough heat/cold to prevent ill health.