Would you say it would be cheaper to buy electric heaters or us my gas furnace?

  • August 31, 2010 1:40 pm

I have a 1000 sq ft house and my gas bill gets up to $400 per month in the winter. Do you know if it would be less expensive to run electric heaters in every room or us the gas furnace??

Depends on the price of gas and electricity in your area. In times past gas has been cheaper. Now it depends on the efficiency of your furnace…..how old it is, etc. A better idea for this year and the next few is to increase the insulation in your attic, add to walls if possible, check all the windows and door and reweather seal as necessary…….do more to prevent heat loss.

You may find if you can limit the rooms used in winter, add a supplemental electric heater for the room and only use as necessary, you can cut the heating bill.

The Eagles – Hotel California – Original

  • August 30, 2010 6:03 pm

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“Hotel California” is the title song from the Eagles’ album of the same name and was released as a single in early 1977. It is one of the best-known songs of the album-oriented rock era. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. The Eagles’ original recording of the song features Henley singing the lead vocals and concludes with an extended section of electric guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh.

History and recognition;

“Hotel California” topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977. Three months after its release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America representing 1,000,000 records shipped. The Eagles also won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for “Hotel California” at the 20th Annual Grammy Awards in 1978.

In 2009, the song “Hotel California” was certified Platinum (Digital Sales Award) by the RIAA for sales of 1,000,000 digital downloads.

The song is rated highly in many rock music lists and polls. Rolling Stone magazine, for example, placed it as the 49th greatest song of all time. It is also one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song’s guitar solo is ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine’s Top 100 Guitar Solos.

As one of the group’s most popular and well-known songs, “Hotel California” has been a concert staple for the band since its release; performances of the song appear on the Eagles’ 1980 live album and, in an acoustic version, on the 1994 Freezes Over reunion concert CD and video release. The “Hell Freezes Over” version is performed using eight guitars in total, and has a decidedly Spanish feel to it – with Don Felder playing a flamenco-inspired intro. During the band’s Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne the song was performed in a manner closer to the original album version, but with a trumpet interlude in the beginning.

The song is a playable track on the video game Guitar Hero World Tour.

Hotel California is an example of very few songs using most of the chords of a minor scale. It is in Bm scale and the chord progressions are: Bm/F#7/Asus2/E9, G/D/Em7/F#7 for the intro and G/D/F#7/Bm, G/D/Em7/F#7 for the chorus. As functional analysis the chords are

i/V7/VII2/IV9, VI/III/iv7/V7

VI/III/V7/i, VI/III/iv7/V7

Glenn Frey described the origins of the song:

The song began as a demo tape, an instrumental by Don Felder. He’d been submitting tapes and song ideas to us since he’d joined the band, always instrumentals, since he didn’t sing. But this particular demo, unlike many of the others, had room for singing. It immediately got our attention. The first working title, the name we gave it, was ‘Mexican Reggae”.

Personnel

* Don Henley: Lead vocals, drums.
* Glenn Frey: 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals.
* Don Felder: Lead guitar, 12-string electric guitar, backing vocals
* Joe Walsh: Lead guitar, organ, backing vocals.
* Randy Meisner: Bass guitar, backing vocals……………..

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.

With five number one singles and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful recording artists of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the U.S. according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the band was ranked #75 on the magazine’s 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[1] They also have the best selling album in the U.S. with Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), which sold more than 29 million copies.

The Eagles broke up in July 1980, but reunited in 1994 for Freezes Over, a mix of live and new studio tracks. They have toured intermittently since then, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2007, Eagles released Long Road out of Eden, their first full studio album in 28 years. The next year they launched The Long Road out of Eden Tour in support of the album. The tour continued on into 2009, crossing North America and Europe, and will continue in 2010 with additional North American, as well as Australian, tour dates…………..
[Wikipedia]

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Fur Elise (METAL!) – Beethoven – Daniel Tidwell style

  • August 28, 2010 5:48 am

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am i entitled to a refund/ how do i find out who installed the meter and when?

  • August 26, 2010 4:40 am

Hi guys,

Ive been living at my current property since july 2008 and just found out that my current energy supplier has been charging me for my electric on an economy 7 meter (which i never knew i had)the thing is i changed to my current supplier from another earlier in the year, so was with the previous supplier for nearly a year also being charged through economy 7 meter when i have central heating. I have no bills from the first supplier (as it was a long time ago and i shread my bills) and dont know if im entitled to a recalculation or if that they can do it or that im entitled to a refund of the difference??. Now i know why my electric bills were expensive!! need some help/advice please!!??

get the old company to send you copies of the bills and then you will be able to check.

What does it mean to have Deregulation of Energy?

  • August 21, 2010 6:11 am

I understand the Deregulation of the Telephone System back in the 80s but now I am hearing about Deregulation of Energy can this even be possible? the energy companies are so old.

Does this really main we can choose our own energy supplier? What is the benefit if any for me to change and get my Electric from a different place?

There is a relationship between government and distribution of goods (including energy) within the state. Republics and Democracies often rely upon markets to distribute the goods. But not always. Sometimes companies get so big that they become virtual monopolies and eliminate the moderating power of markets. Sometimes governments want to create monopolies as a way to handle certain areas like electricity. In these times regulations take the place of markets. Sometimes governments hand out advantages in the form of subsidiaries. This changes market preferences so regulations are attached as a counterbalance. And sometimes markets are influenced by advertising as in the case of cigarettes so that regulations attempt to control this.

So markets are generally preferred but they don’t always work. Government often blindly go from supporting regulations to supporting markets. Conditions change overtime and regulations may not change as quickly as markets can adapt absent unequal pressures.

Deregulation is the process of shifting back to allowing markets to distribute goods like energy. If there were a silent group fixing prices or media control, deregulation will not work as markets depend upon price to influence buying decisions. If there are too few players in a market deregulation will not work as alternative choices are not available. In theory deregulation will allow prices to fluctuate and permit buyers to choose between different parties offering the same goods or services. In theory this means you could go out and buy your petrol from different suppliers or choose to use another alternative fuel entirely. You could choose to heat your home in any number of ways from different suppliers and could change as quickly as you decide.

Deregulation when there are few alternatives gives more control to the suppliers.

(UK question) Who do I need to inform when changing my name…?

  • August 9, 2010 3:41 am

…after marriage, but not in the usual manner. My partner and I are considering changing our names via deed poll. We’d both take my last name, but with her last name as our middle name.

If we do this, I assume we’d both have to change the names on our passports, but otherwise could we just carry on as before? Since we’d both still be keeping our old names in a way, could our banks, electric suppliers, insurance companies, tax office etc etc still keep records of us with our previous names?

Thanks for answering. Relevant links would be especially useful, as would providing an information number I could call!

You do not need to do anything other than start using your new names – changing by Deed Poll is not a legal requirement. However banks, government departments will make life difficult if you don’t go through the formalities.

If I buy a 400 watt power supply will I get high electricity bills?

  • August 5, 2010 1:28 pm

I currently have an 250 power supply ( PSU) but I am going to change to an 450 Watt PSU . If i do will I get higher bills .

The PSU capacity doesn’t really make much of a difference. The bigger PSU might use a little more residual energy for cooling, etc but ultimately it all depends on how much wattage your hardware requires. You might want to ask yourself if you even need the bigger PSU. If you know someone with a UPS that displays power usage, ask if you can hook up your system to it and get a reading. I have 2 servers with multiple HDDs, etc both with 870W PSUs here in my office and they are collectively drawing 180W. I was shocked!

Would it be cheaper to use electric baseboard heat or portable heaters to heat a studio in the winter?

  • August 5, 2010 1:28 pm

I will be living in a third floor studio (about 400 sq. feet) in Chicago. The management has recently installed electric baseboard heat, therefore I was not able to get price quotes, before signing the lease. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with electric baseboard heat and how much it costs during the winter months? What would be a cheaper alternative? I signed a lease for a year – so I would not be able to make any major changes. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kerosene heaters, propane heaters, or prefeerably natural gas heaters. Just have a vent for the exhaust.

Electric baseboard heaters are energy inefficent.

Electric is the most expensive source of energy.

And baseboard heating is even worse.

Is it still cheaper to use gas heat and water heater than electricity?

  • August 1, 2010 4:04 am

Is gas still cheaper to use for heating and the water heater? In the winter, the weather is like Portland, OR or Memphis, TN, not bitterly cold but a little chilly at times.

due to the continuing high rising costs of electricity, gas still seems to be the cheaper fuel alternative for heating hot water – i dont forsee electricity being cheaper yet…… so in other words, gas is cheaper-

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