On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:38:06 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 2/24/2017 2:47 PM, Bruce wrote:
>
>> Oh, come on. If you want to heat your house, you don't turn to your
>> overn or stove. Dsi1 is right that heating up the cook and the kitchen
>> is a waste. Same with a light bulb. it would be best if all its energy
>> went into creating light, not heat. Even in winter.
>>
>
>Heat is heat, no matter the source. Sure, some systems are more
>efficient or more cost effective, but in the winter the heat from the
>stove is not wasted, it just makes less work for the central heating system.
>
>Back about a hundred+ years the kitchen stove often was the only heat
>source in a house.

That's only a side effect. If you want heat, you use a device that
specialises in creating heat. Not a device that does room heating as
an inefficient side effect.

It's like saying: "Turn on the light, it's cold!"

>My one grandmother had a coal fired stove. Family
>members would out a brick on the stove to heat and then put it in the
>bed for heat at night.

I hope things have changed in 100 years where you live. If you go
further back a wolf skin could help keep you warm. Not so relevant
anymore now