sheesh...... my spelling's bad.....

Thanks dick, that is what I suspected.

As far as contributing my small bit to lessen the demand on our power grid, if I only used electricity for lighting and running electrical home appliances, then using fluorescents might make sense to me, although if I were really serious about being power smart, for task lighting, white LEDs would be my preference.

I'm not looking for a more efficient way to heat or necessarily cheaper. (I actually do use a much cheaper method in some areas of my house.) I just couldn't see, that if I am using electricity as a source to provide heat in a room, whether or not that heat comes from a 1500W baseboard heater, the motor of my fridge or as a by-product of a couple of 60W incandescent light bulbs, that the heat produced by all sources isn't all cumulative and makes no difference.

What I may save, powerwise, by using low heat, low wattage fluorescents, I'm still going to have to make up for in extra demand on the baseboard heater, when using electricity as my primary heat source.

Amos, although solar works well in most areas of California, it is not on its own a reliable source of power in the fall, winter or spring on our foggy, rainy Island. Wind and tidal power are more applicable and I wish our damned government would get behind that instead of pushing natural gas.

It may be surprising how well you can heat a small room on our temperate coast with just a 60 W incandescent light bulb, particularly if the room is well insulated against both thermal and radiant heat loss. I'm not certain replacing that bulb in my shed with a fluorescent and as a result having to install a 500W electric heater would be a wise use of energy either.