While it's true that the heat your electronics produce in winter is usefull as heat, that same heat could have been produced with one quarter the electric input using a heatpump (ie. A/C with inverter). Besides, unless you live north of Canada - if you house is reasonably isolated, you only need heat 4 month a year.
That makes the usefull heat of leaving you electronics/lights on, 12 times more expensive/polluting/whatever than it could've been. If you live in an area where A/C is needed during the summer, the figure is even worse.
Bottom line: Electric heating is a waste - year-round electric heating is just plain stupid. Unless you happen to live next door to a nuclear plant with surplus capacity of course. This post might be colored by the fact, that I pay 30cent/kWh for my electricity - which comes primarily from coal:-(
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While it's true that the heat your electronics produce in winter is usefull as heat,
that same heat could have been produced with one quarter the electric input using a heatpump (ie. A/C with inverter).
Besides, unless you live north of Canada - if you house is reasonably isolated, you only need heat 4 month a year.
That makes the usefull heat of leaving you electronics/lights on, 12 times more expensive/polluting/whatever than it could've been.
If you live in an area where A/C is needed during the summer, the figure is even worse.
Bottom line: Electric heating is a waste - year-round electric heating is just plain stupid. Unless you happen to live next door to a nuclear plant with surplus capacity of course. :-(
This post might be colored by the fact, that I pay 30cent/kWh for my electricity - which comes primarily from coal