Energy secret that will help you save money on your home heating bill this winter.
Getting Off Oil, World news Saturday, January 22nd, 2011Looks like we might be in for a very cold winter. One thing for sure is that millions of people are going to pay dearly to heat their homes this winter. Those with a tight budget are going to be affected the most. Any increase in electrical, gas or oil costs is going to reduce their budget drastically. Well I have an energy saving secret for you that will help you save money on your electrical, natural gas and oil home heating bill this winter.
The secret to lowering your electrical, natural gas and oil heating costs is revealed to us every day since life began on Earth. For Christians and Hebrews around the World it was revealed to us with this one single line of scripture – Genesis 1:3 – “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” The Sun was created to provide light for our Earth. The light of the Sun also provides heat.
Depending on where in the World you live, the heat from sunlight is sufficient enough so that you don’t need any electrical heating device to help keep you warm. In the south there is no need for heaters. They don’t need to pay for electrical, natural gas or oil heat. In the north we need heaters, especially in the winter months. In the north we are forced to pay out hundreds, even thousands of dollars to heat our homes. Every year the cost to heat our homes becomes more and more expensive. As the temperature drops our electrical, natural gas and oil home heating bill rises. What can you do to save money on your home heating bill this winter? For the past 5 years, I have been experimenting with ways to help you heat your home with less energy. The most cost effective is the ordinary incandescent light bulb. For as little as $1 you have a heating source that will help you heat your home.
How many of you have accidentally touched an incandescent light bulb that is on? You probably remember that time in your life because it was a very painful experience. Why? Because your skin suffered a burn from touching the very hot light bulb. How many have gotten a skin burn from touching a baseboard heater? Not very many if at all because the baseboard heater isn’t as hot as the light bulb. The ordinary $1 incandescent light bulb is a very cheap source of light and heat. The higher the wattage of the light bulb the hotter the light bulb will be. A 100 watt incandescent bulb will give off more heat than a 50 watt incandescent light bulb and even more heat than a mercury contaminated fluorescent light bulb (which also now cost a lot more money to buy than an incandescent light bulb) . The best kept secret is that an incandescent light bulb is a very cheap source of heat.
By using incandescent light bulbs your heating bill will be reduced as your oil furnace, baseboard heater or gas furnace will not have to kick on as much. A baseboard heater consumes as much as 1000 watts and more of electricity to maintain a comfortable room temperature. A couple of incandescent light bulb can help maintain that same comfortable room temperature using a fraction of the energy and at a fraction of the cost. The best light fixtures to use are clamp lights. You can buy these at your local hardware store – Home Depot, Canadian Tire, Home Hardware, and even Walmart. The metal reflector reflects both the light and heat from the incandescent light bulb. It acts as a heat element. The incandescent light bulb is very hot and the heat will transfer to the metal reflector shade making the shade a heat source too.
A word of caution. The deflector shade will get hot. If you have children make sure they are out of reach. The ideal height is as low as possible to the ground so that no one gets burned. Heat will rise so if you place it too high you will defeat the purpose of the light as a heating source. You don’t see a baseboard heater installed near the ceiling. They are always installed just a few inches off of the floor because in order for them to be at all effective the heat must be able to rise and fill the room. The same applies to using an incandescent light bulb as a heating source. The lower the better.
See for yourself. Go ahead and leave the lights on. Use 100 watts incandescent light bulbs or halogen bulbs (don’t use mercury poisoning florescent bulbs as they give off no heat) in the winter to help heat your home and lower your heating bill.
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