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AFUE means a lot to me

I’ve been shivering every night while I try to sleep as of late. I don’t feel about others, but being cold at night causes myself and others to get terrible insomnia. Even if I take melatonin or benadryl, the shivering keeps myself and others wide awake forever. I figured that a hot blanket plus fluffy pajamas would be enough to keep myself and others nice and hot during the twilight times, but they’re not. If every one of us keep getting blizzards every single month like every one of us have for the past year, I’m going to have to make some kind of drastic change in our house. It’s a matter of having reliable, on demand heat that doesn’t cost so much money that I can’t afford to run it. In the past I’ve had tons of central heating systems that drove up our electricity bill so high that I struggled to be able to rationalize using them. For the longest time I didn’t feel of any other kind of modern residential heat than electric heating systems plus wood stoves. I was amazed when I received news about all of these other kinds of heating systems for houses. My electric heating systems of the past apparently were simply one form of fan-forced heating, of which there are other available models like gas powered plus oil powered furnaces. Otherwise I could get a water heated system in my home like a steam boiler, which itself is either heated with electricity or an alternative source of fuel of some sort. Regardless of what kind of furnace you choose, I discovered recently that there’s a rating system called the AFUE. It stands for annual fuel utilization efficiency plus it accurately measures the efficiency of a gas furnace based on how much heat it produces from the incoming fuel it consumes in the process. This allows you to compare the energy efficiency of an electric furnace to a boiler system separate from having to clumsily fumble around with ratios plus other equations.

 

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