"Rodney Myrvaagnes" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:19:41 GMT, Priscilla Ballou
> > wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> zxcvbob > wrote:
>>
>>> Priscilla Ballou wrote:
>>> > In article >,
>>> > zxcvbob > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >>Louis Cohen wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>>Which one is more energy-efficient?
>>> >>
>>> >>In the winter, it doesn't make any difference because the "wasted"
>>> >>energy helps heat your house -- probably more efficiently than your
>>> >>furnace.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > You must have a much more poorly insulated oven than I do. I don't
>>> > lose
>>> > much heat when it's on and its door is shut.
>>
>>> The point is whatever inefficiency you have using the oven instead of
>>> the stovetop is made up by your furnace running less.
>>
>>But my furnace *doesn't* run less. There is little heat benefit from a
>>closed oven. Or at least my well-insulated oven.
>>
>>> In the summer, the oven insulation makes a big difference in energy
>>> efficiency. In the winter, it doesn't.
>>
>>I don't think you follow. Your point was that the extra fuel burned by
>>cooking in the oven would have a secondary effect of heating the house.
>>My point was that my oven is well insulated and most heat doesn't get
>>out of it to heat the house, so it's wasted.
>>
> No way, Priscilla. The heat can't disappear from the universe. Better
> insulation will slow the transfer, but it doesn't prevent it forever.
> Otherwise the oven would never cool. When it does cool, the heat is in
> the house. It either relieves the furnace or burdens the AC, depending
> on circumstances.
>
>
I thought ovens were vented to the outside, so the heat could go OUTSIDE; am
I wrong?
Dee