Posted by LJD on December 09, 2011 at 15:11:03 from (67.142.130.35):
In Reply to: Amish heaters posted by Tom Thumb on December 09, 2011 at 14:55:06:
The Amish use electricity, they just pick and choose. I find it hard to believe there is anything "Amish" about those heaters except for the woodwork - if even that.
I recently bought a bunch of stuff from some newly arrive Amish farmers. They had to tear out all the electric motors from their barn that were used for dairy work. They replaced all the electric motors with hydraulic motors run by diesel engines. So, all those gas engines used DC start and charge systems - so that electricity was OK. They also put a telephone in the barn that also uses electricity.
Electricity is about the most inefficient mode of heat in the USA. That being said, anything that can target a small area instead of an entire building is going to use less fuel - if you can stand it. For most of the country, the electric heater is an indirect coal-burner, just like the Chevy Volt.
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