This assumes you have cell service at your home. Unfortunately even in this day and age there is still no service at my place from any of the cell companies. It ceases to amaze me but with the 'not in my backyard' mentality of the residents regarding towers it's just never going to happen. Not to mention that you also have to have a phone that can be tethered to your computer in addition to actually having service.

Your joking right? I live in New England and my winter bills are usually between $600 and $800/mo. Granted the house is electric and just over 3k s.q ft. But it is 2x6 construction, I have replaced all the exterior windows & doors, put cfl's in most rooms, put set back thermostats in all the rooms and we only heat the rooms we are in and using. This has cut our consumption by about 40%. The real issue is our wonderful state decided to deregulate power generation to save us money. Yea right! All that has happened is we have had rate increases upon increases. Our monthly expenditure year over year is almost exactly the same because the rate increases have eaten up all the savings from our improvements.

The real kicker here is that I averaged my annual expenditure against our next door neighbor who has a similar sized house with oil heat. If I total his annual electric and oil vs. my electric we come out about $100 apart. Had oil not come down like it did I would probably have done much better than him.

Not really hard to come by. Go to a motorcycle shop and ask for flexible exhaust tubing. My generator is in my garage and vented to the outside by about 15 ft of this kind of exhaust tubing. I also have a CO2 sensor hanging right off the generator just in case there is any leakage. In 10 years it has worked flawlessly.

The table is a bad idea though...

Great post. I have a similar setup but I have my living room instead of a bed room. This is because I have gas logs in the fireplace which will heat that room. I also hook my well pump up as I have no furnace (electric heat).

One thing to note is no matter what make sure you maintain your gas generator at least twice a year. I made the mistake of not doing it last year and a month ago I was in the dark with a small flashlight trying to take of the carb bowl and clean it out. Not a pretty sight! Don't make the same mistake.

Don't forget to add lawyers. I don't think there is anything immoral about doing medical experiments on attorneys.