[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: cost of electric versus natural gas and gasoline

[Lawrence Lile]

How did you go about submetering the gas appliaces - do you have a name
of a supplier of such meters, a rough cost?  

 

If you meter it, you will probably conserve it!  

 

WoW! I knew pilot flames were inefficient, but I didn't realiuze that
the pilot used MORE gas than the appliance it was keeping ready!  Are
you sure there isn't a decimal point missing in that pilot flame number?


 

Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP

Project Solutions Engineering

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From: Reuben Deumling [mailto:9watts at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:47 AM
To: Lawrence Lile
Cc: greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: cost of electric versus natural
gas and gasoline

 

drifting even further afield (at least given the hold-over title of this
thread):

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Lawrence Lile <LLile at projsolco.com>
wrote:

OTOH I do have a gas kitchen stove, which I guess is unvented if I don't
turn the kitchen fan on.

And that depends on the fan. Mine which I inherited and ripped out just
redistributed everything back into the kitchen after passing it through
a 'filter.'

I've been submetering my gas water heater and gas kitchen stove for many
years now, and we all know which one is required to be vented....

Anyway, with my old setup--when we lived in an apartment--the WH used
<5cf of gas per day and the stove used 7cf. Now with the WH in the
basement I have less control over its operation, so the WH consumes
about 15cf/day and the stove 9cf. For reference, a standard 400BTU/hr
pilot flame corresponds to roughly 10cf/day.

Reuben Deumling