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by Kevortex on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:13:17 PM MST
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You sound like you are doing exactly what I will be doing. Using wind for heat.
You can go over to Menards or Home Depot and buy a small electric hot water heater. I think it is rated at 1500 watts. Or..... you can make your own more efficient hot water heater by taking an old electric or gas water heater and puting heat lamps under it. Heat lamps are more efficient at creating heat than standard heating elements. Three 250 watt lamp bulbs will almost boil water. Yes, I've tried it. You don't have to use a thermostat on the lamp heater. Just use a simple lamp timer and set it for ever other hour or so. Super insulate the heater.
Incidentally, there are space heaters on the market that use this vary same idea but they use the lamps to heat copper tubing and then blow a fan across them to distribute the heat. Keep in mind the lamps only heat what they shine on. They don't heat the air.
Start building guys ! We can beat Warren Buffett at his own utility monopoly game !
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