All Electric Home?
asked: If a certain amount of fuel (oil, gas or coal) is burned in your house stove it would produce X amount of heat. Now, if that same amount of fuel is burned in an electric generating plant, and all the electricity so generated is used to heat your house by means of an [...]
Physics help?
number1toolfool asked: A particular household uses a 1.2-kW heater 3.0 h/day (“on” time), four 1.00E2-W lightbulbs 6.0 h/day, a 3.4-kW electric stove element for a total of 2.3 h/day, and miscellaneous power amounting to 1.6 kWh/day.
A.If electricity costs $0.120 per kWh, what will be their monthly bill (3.0E1 days)?
B.How much coal (which produces 7.0E3 kcal/kg) [...]