2007-03-02 11:53:38 · 8 answers · asked by Double O 6 in Environment
A/C is a lot more expensive to run than heat! Electricity costs more per KWH than natural gas (usual heating/cooling power sources). Obviously, it's the least expensive to live in a climate that doesn't require heating/cooling, but I'd have to say that living where A/C isn't required is a lot less expensive than living in cities with sweltering summers. Our August electricity bill last year was over $600. It's about $200 in the "winter." I live near Houston.
2007-03-02 12:06:08 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Warm, hands down.
Heating is more efficient than air conditioning, but _only_ if the temperature difference between inside and out is the same for both.
In a cold climate the heater may often have to raise the temperature inside by 50F or more compared to outside. Efficient or not, that takes a lot more energy than cooling a house down 20F, which is more typical for air conditioning.
2007-03-02 12:36:23 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with KB. Heating is cheaper than cooling. But best of all would be a mild climate that does not require much of either. Coastal southern California has such a climate. That is why so many people have moved there.
2007-03-02 12:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I lived in Rockhampton (Australian east coast, just north of the Tropic of Capricorn) for years and never cooled the house, and during the cooler months I rarely heated it either. In most tropical and subtropical climates you can do without heating or cooling. This house has no cooling system and the temperature today was 31C. Open the windows.
2007-03-02 19:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cooler climates are cheaper, because you can heat without using energy resources - clothes, blankets, body heat. Whereas every current form of cooling requires enegy - fans, evaporative cooling, Peltier cooling (refrigeration).
2007-03-02 13:09:22 · answer #5 · answered by oracle128au 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess low humidity. Water needs a lot of energy to change it's temp. And I guess it is cheaper to warm up a room than cool it down.
2007-03-02 11:58:50 · answer #6 · answered by Banzan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't that depend on access to resources, which resource, home construction type, quality, size/volume &c? Too many variables to easily answer.
2007-03-02 12:44:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a cave-temp is almost constant
2007-03-02 15:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by RayM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋