Ran the oven through its 3 hour self-cleaning cycle today. The heat it gave off kept the house warm and the furnace from kicking on for like 6 hours. My gas bill appreciates that.
Ran the oven through its 3 hour self-cleaning cycle today. The heat it gave off kept the house warm and the furnace from kicking on for like 6 hours. My gas bill appreciates that.
That’s 100% true even with the multiple rate hikes on the gas over the last 2 years. But I needed to run the cleaning cycle anyway, so it’s basically waste / free heat.
Oh yes, when you get to use “free” heat it’s great. It’s how I justify running computers that contribute compute power to science projects via BOINC at the house I moved into- the house uses exclusively electric resistance heat (shitty rental), so if I’m burning the same amount of kWh running a computer instead of a heater, it’s a net benefit.
We really need Windows installable heat pumps. Just ac units with reversible valves and better fan motors.
Why isn’t that a thing yet?
They do exist! Units like this have started to become more prevalent in the market, although they are still too expensive for most people to consider for energy savings alone. Heat pumps are magic.
Alternatively, you could take your existing windows ac and flip it around… that won’t work very well though haha
A proof of concept has been done on YouTube at least:
https://youtu.be/hc_HcT4pIOE
Yeah, I seriously considered trying to heat my garage/shop with an old AC this way after watching this originally. Gotta insulate it better before that though.
Their proposed AC units would go in Windows, not windows, unfortunately
My iPhone autocorrected that too of all things.