{"id":299,"date":"2012-01-06T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2012\/01\/micro-heaters.html"},"modified":"2012-01-06T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:21:03","slug":"micro-heaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/01\/micro-heaters.html","title":{"rendered":"Micro Heaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: right;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330168e5122e73970c-pi\"><img class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e888330168e5122e73970c\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Microheaters\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330168e5122e73970c-500wi\" alt=\"Microheaters\" \/><\/a>&#8220;In June of 2010 I moved to a place in Montana with only electric heat. By myself. In the past few winters I had conducted experiments in cutting the amount of energy I needed to stay warm, with a focus on heating myself instead of heating the whole house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a lot of motivators here, but the primary motivator was the greenwashing being done around fluorescent light bulbs. My power company sent me literature telling me that I should replace all of my incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent light bulbs to save energy and money. Based on my lighting usage, the most I could possibly save is $5 per year. Yet, with changing my heating habits, I think I have proven that I can save $500 per year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richsoil.com\/electric-heat.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/energy-efficiency\/cut-your-heating-bill-half-heat-person-not-house-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Treehugger<\/a>. Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2011\/02\/body-insulation-thermal-underwear.html\" target=\"_self\">Insulation: first the body, then the home<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In June of 2010 I moved to a place in Montana with only electric heat. By myself. In the past few winters I had conducted experiments in cutting the amount of energy I needed to stay warm, with a focus on heating myself instead of heating the whole house.&#8221; &#8220;I had a lot of motivators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}