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Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
My feeling when I, Cathy and others started CES was that since I was going to be working from home I should spend part of that day improving that home. I figured after the rate hike fight in 2007 that I wanted no part of but got sucked into anyway, that i...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
a carpenter’s doors are never square and the wiring in an electricians house is always scary. Because you never do at home what you do at work. I never had this problem in New Orleans or when I moved back from Springfield. We owned our house in New ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I can barely post today I am so wracked with grief. 19 years is longer than I have been with anyone. I could tell you stories. When I lived in New Orleans it was our “vacation lamp”. So for 12 years in a row no matter what else it did it was o...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
It’s Jam Band Friday - http://www.youtube.com/watchv=GCPSh47gHz8&feature=relatedWhile I have understood for like for 40 years that “scarcity” was the real environmental issue and that “over population” was its cause, man...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
The State Journal Register is just the same old Republican Rag that wants to shine Big Coals boots to stay in business. They run 3 Right Wing Pundits today and 2 of them Comment on the Green Economy. One who says it won’t work and the other whose sa...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I have updated this area for awhile. I think this may hold the future for us all. Deep drilling for geothermal heat rates 3 page in the New York Times Online. My. Maybe the rich and powerful are starting to get it.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/busines...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
According to a very hairy paper from three Harvard Grad students purports to show that especially the USA, Canada and China have all the wind power that we need to generate al the electricity we currently need. The rest of the world does too but not withi...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
After an extended meditation like I just concluded on the Federal Energy Tax Credits (please click 2008 elections, international environmental groups and religion categories for more examples) I am always at a loss for where to go next. I find it useful t...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I know that this is an obvious ploy for google numbers but I am the original google whore. I tried to get the PDF file from the Feds converted to a Word file so we could become the goto site for such things but I failed miserabley…(psss. it jam band...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
It is not law yet, but if it will become law and it looks like it will. Waiting to buy a new car until it passes could be well worth it. I say this because it is unclear whether you will be able to take advantage of both the Clunker Bill and the Tax Credi...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
With gasoline prices headed towards 3 $$$ and consumers sitting on their hands, this is not a bad first attempt to get the internal combustion engine off the road. Discussing this credit takes us away from residential issues but unless you live in one eve...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Talk about an exotic credit. Wonder who is going to cash in on this First the Tax Credit.
Not there silly - here>
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfmc=products.pr_tax_credits#s5Fuel Cells
Residential Fuel Cell and microturbine system
Efficiency of a...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
The advances in “personal wind turbines” in the last 10 years has been amazing. Now you can get 3 kwh, 10 kwh or even 20 kwh on your property pretty much overnight. Most companies are pushing integrated systems with 3 kwh solar and 10 kwh wind...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Or at least for the life of the equipment. (it’s jam band friday - http://www.youtube.com/watchv=fhNrqc6yvTU)
I mean this is the ultimate irony in the utility world. Heating water with anything other than the sun which is free is a crime. I mean th...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
If we had been this aggressive for the last 30 years. We would have a green economy and we would be skipping all of the problems we have right now. The world would have followed suit and our species would not be in the danger it is now. Grousing doesnR...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Now we get to fill out form 5695. Not only that but the credits are good until 2016 when Obama retires. But first the Tax Credits.
Not there silly here:
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfmc=products.pr_tax_credits#c6Geo-Thermal Heat Pump
Geo-Thermal Heat...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
My great grandmother had what they called a six “hole” cast iron cob burning stove. The thing was monstrous. It cover one wall of the dining room and was probably 6 foot long. It had two ovens and and ash box across the front and warming shelf...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I am just posting these tax credits so people will know. I question why someone would buy a standard water heater when Solar water heaters are not that much more and are free over the life of the system (like forever).
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I rarely post on a weekend BUT I have been doing those dreary tax credits for the last week and I may have a week or more to go so for a day let’s do funny. Plus I never thought I would be linked to ESPN. Crikey.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/st...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
(and its Jam Band Friday - http://www.youtube.com/watchv=xwGL5LDb4u8 )
If you think that I am going to cover all the Energy Efficient HVAC options covered by these credits you would be out of your mind…It would take for ever. Even though it is Ja...
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