$300 Electric Bills ???

And I believe you. I checked.

We are all a little off, though.

A Watt is the use of 1 Joule in 1 second.
Thus, a Kilowatt is the use of 1000 Joules in 1 second.

A Kilowatt*Hour is the use of 3.6 Megajoules.

Thus, to get a 60 W light bulb to use 1 Kilowatt*Hour, you need to run it for 60,000 seconds, which is 1,000 minutes...16-2/3 hours.
 
basically, power is relatively cheap. saying one watt per second made it sound expensive to an unholy degree. so, running a light bulb all day long, while not exactly a bright idea (shazaam!), isn't going to break the bank.

painful physics flash backs! i took an copout physics class to fufill a gen. ed. requirement for my history/anthropology degree a couple years back. joules....eek. scary.
 
A Watt per second is not anything that I can find...it does make it sound like a lot, but a Joule is relatively nothing...there are 4.186 of them per calorie...and mind you, that's not Calorie as in food, which is actually Kilocalorie
 
ack, more physics, make it stop! :)

i remember learning about how a refrigerator left open will actually heat up a room, not cool it as conventional wisdom would suggest. this was based on the increased energy used in an attempt to maintain adequate cooling.

so don't try lowering the temp in those tanks with open refrigerators during the hot summer months, people!
 
my electric bill is 260 a month. thats in a 2 year old 4000sq ft home with 740gallons worth of heated fish tanks in Northern New Jersey.
 
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