"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>> In article >,
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>>
>>>> Artists can't even begin to grasp the concept.
>>>
>>> No, the concept I grasp is that my furnace only responds to
>>> the temp by the thermostat.
>>
>> What you're not grasping is that the temperature increase from the
>> dishwasher heater is very real and very measurable, and it doesn't
>> have to have a blower directly on the thermostat for the heat to have
>> an effect inside the house.
>
> We're talking about the heat from the dishwasher not being wasted
> because it saves the furnace from having to make up some .2
> degree.
>
> My furnace does not measure the heat by the dishwasher, it measures
> the heat by the thermostat. Particularly annoying when the sun comes
> through the skylight and hits the thermostat and it gets really cold in
> here because the furnace won't run.
>
>> The heating source doesn't have to be blowing onto the thermostat for
>> the heat to have an effect.
>
> No, it has to reach the thermostat.
> Of course it's warmer if you're sitting in front of the dishwasher when
> it's venting the heat. That's not what we're talking about. We're
> talking about the furnace noticing it. Maybe in your house you can
> just have one heat vent in one room because hey, the heat just homogenizes
> through the house. Me, I have a heat vent in every
> room because otherwise the heat would be uneven.
>
> We're not going to agree, since you think if the heat doesn't reach
> the thermostat the furnace will still know you did the dishes. So
> let's just drop it.
>
> nancy
>
Unless you close off doors any heat generated in any part of the house
eventually affects the thermostat regardless where it is located inside the
house... energy can neither be created or destroyed; a law of physics... I
really didn't want to complicate things by introducing the concept of
'time'... but eventually the heat generated in the kitchen affects the
thermostat in another part of the house... I suggest reading Zeno's
Paradoxes... if not enlightening you may find it interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes