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Gaybucks · 02-27-2007, 02:45 PM

Incandescent lighting is not an efficient heat source, particularly compared to gas heating in a forced-air heating system, but even when comparing to electric heat. (Those of us gay boys who had Easy Bake ovens as kids know all about that, they used 60 watt bulbs to cook the food and took absolutely forever.)

Compact fluorescent lighting typically uses about 1/5 of the power that incandescent lighting uses. So if you had, for example, 15 100 watt incandescent bulbs, you could replace them with 15 compact fluorescents, and have 1200 watts left over to use for heat. My guess is you would get a LOT more heat from 15 compact fluorescents and a 900 watt electric heater going full blast (still saving 300 watts/hour) than you'd get with just 15 incandescent lamps.

Hope that helps.

02-27-2007, 02:45 PM
Gaybucks Confirmed User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 451	Incandescent lighting is not an efficient heat source, particularly compared to gas heating in a forced-air heating system, but even when comparing to electric heat. (Those of us gay boys who had Easy Bake ovens as kids know all about that, they used 60 watt bulbs to cook the food and took absolutely forever.) Compact fluorescent lighting typically uses about 1/5 of the power that incandescent lighting uses. So if you had, for example, 15 100 watt incandescent bulbs, you could replace them with 15 compact fluorescents, and have 1200 watts left over to use for heat. My guess is you would get a LOT more heat from 15 compact fluorescents and a 900 watt electric heater going full blast (still saving 300 watts/hour) than you'd get with just 15 incandescent lamps. Hope that helps. __________________ Gaybucks.com 100% exclusive American guys - hosted movie galleries - NATS - Boyfunk.com - Boysfeetclub.com - AJsCloset.com- SkylerDeVoss.com ICQ 272-995-402