{"id":13984,"date":"2016-01-21T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2016-01-21T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:29:07","slug":"lifestyle-the-hydro-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-the-hydro-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle:  the Hydro bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor investigates higher household usage over last year.<\/h1>\n<p>For Nov11-Jan11, our daily household usage this year was 6kWh above last year.  My wife points to the new electric fireplace downstairs as the culprit.  More specifically, she means that it&#8217;s been left on while people weren&#8217;t in the room.  (The people who left it on would be the culprits.)<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, late December through early January was cold: the first week back to school, snow still lay around from December 23.  Around here, cold temperatures sustaining that long are rare.<\/p>\n<p>The heat from the electric fireplace was needed anyway.  The fan, however, doesn&#8217;t produce heat, but just circulates it.  I&#8217;ve looked around and suspect, from <a href=\" http:\/\/www.hearth.com\/talk\/threads\/how-much-electricity-does-a-woodstove-blower-use.171\/\">hearth.com,<\/a> that the fan might use 120W (0.12kW). Left on 14 hours per day, it would use 0.12kWx14h=1.68kWh.  That&#8217;s more than 25% of the 6kWh per day over what we used last year.<\/p>\n<p>Where the other three quarters went, I&#8217;ll continue to investigate:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor investigates higher household usage over last year. For Nov11-Jan11, our daily household usage this year was 6kWh above last year. My wife points to the new electric fireplace downstairs as the culprit. More specifically, she means that it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-the-hydro-bill\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle:  the Hydro bill<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023,384,434,181],"tags":[1356,1355,1354],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electricity","category-energy","category-home-economics","category-lifestyle","tag-electric-fireplace-fan-wattage","tag-holiday-electricity-bill","tag-hyrdo-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13990,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions\/13990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}