Comments for Physics at MHS Period 5

Comment on Heating by sam

sam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:14:36 +0000

I do believe mine is electric, not that it works right now anyway

Comment on Monday 10/20/08 by john

john — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:40:04 +0000

The topic that was assign to talk about was to say any troubles that we are having with the course so far. For me it’s trying to apply equations hypothetically this is because the way my mind works is more toward trying and learning rather than what we did almost all last year in chemistry where theoretical problems were all we solved, but all of the other things that we have actually tried and demonstrated or are going to complete using the equations make sense to me because it’s applying them to real instances not made up ones but I really don’t know why it is so much harder for me to do than the real things because its the same problems just different numbers. That’s the only trouble I have with the class otherwise Physics it awesome!!

Comment on Heating by Z

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:32:43 +0000

we heat our house with fuel oil. If we had the option to switch we would go with anything cheaper.

Comment on Heating by Jill

Jill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:02:12 +0000

We heat our house with fuel oil. I would say that we should switch to a pellet stove because it seems cheaper and more efficient. However, I didn’t quite understand how these work when we were talking about them in class so I would have to learn more about it.

-Jill

Comment on Heating by Emma

Emma — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:50:41 +0000

We heat my house with a combination of propane and fuel oil. The majority of our heating is done through fuel oil, but we have a small propane stove as well. My parents also have a small electric space heater to heat their attic rooms.

I think that, of the options we’ve covered in class, switching over to a combination of geothermal heating and a pellet stove seems like the best option. I’ve talked about this with my dad though, and he pointed out that proper insulation is truly the most important change to make, before we change our heating system – our house is completely uninsulated, and it makes any type of heating much more costly than it should be.

- Emma

Comment on Heating by paperclippedmime

paperclippedmime — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:36:58 +0000

All of the heating in our apartment is done with propane. If switching was an option, the most optimal combination in my mind would be geothermal coupled with a wood stove for the wintertime, plus heating costs could be reduced further with the installation of really well-insulated windows and walls.

Comment on Heating by john

john — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:32:50 +0000

I have two houses and both mainly use some other fuel than kerosene, but both of our houses have a back-up although we rarely use it. Most of the time at our dads house we use our newly installed pellet stove and at my moms house we use a wood stove which is relatively new. If we could switch we would definitely try to do geothermal, so that we wouldn’t need air conditioners in the summer.

Comment on About by sladee

sladee — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:10:52 +0000

My house is currently being heated with oil, but we are in the middle of a switch to geothermal. We chose to make this change because, although it uses more elctricity, our oil use is going to decrease and the cost to heat our house will decrease significantly.

Comment on by Nick

Nick — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:20:36 +0000

we use oil and propane to heat my house and i would probably switch over to a pellet stove because of how cheap it is and it seems to burn cleaner than wood. And with in 2 years i would recover my costs in the saving i would earn

Comment on by christa

christa — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:47:23 +0000

The type of fuel source that I use is wood. I would not change it if I could because it is the cheapest and I like having my house at about 72 degrees in the winter and being able to sit in front of the fire.
~Christa