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Old 01-31-2008, 01:04 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NoCO2 View Post
I've been experimenting with using the sun to heat my apartment recently. I'm lucky/unlucky that my apartment faces east, so for the first half of the day I get a good bit of sunlight in through the wall of windows in my living room. I turn the heat way down during the day, knowing full well that the sun coming in gets it to nearly 80F by 11AM-12PM and then I try to circulate that air into my bedroom while I'm out to hopefully get my room equally warm so I don't have to turn the heat up during the evening either. I have yet to get a Killawatt (though it's on the list) and I don't use electric blankets, but it's good to know what an electric blanket uses, I was considering getting one of those to substitute for running the heat, but it may turn out that the heater uses less power in reality...
Could you just run the fan on the heating unit to circulate the air or would that draw to much energy?
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