Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Ok so you probably know what I am going to say so don’t rush me. Here is the conventional wisdom:
http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/home/appliances/dryers.html
Unlike most other types of appliances, clothes dryers don’t vary much in the amo...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Unlike many appliances there does not seem to be any “lists” of the most efficient stoves. There does not seem to be any comparisons of stoves. Like one with a convection oven compared to a combo microwave convection oven. There is however a w...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
If you know turkeys there is so much weird about this picture:
http://www.originalbirdart.com/meyer.htmDedicated to John and Susan Kay life long tillers of the soil. They may never leave the farm but the world is a better place for their having been here....
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
OK so my energy efficient 27 inch Samsong is all set up. I looked in the paper and CSI is not new so we can go back the appliances now. As I said in the last post a truely efficient Refrigerator would have the freezer compartment on the floor, followed by...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
So we have you house super insulated, we have a tankles water heater, and you have turned your refrigerator upside down and moved the coils outside (more on that tomorrow), what do we get next Most people would say an efficient “something” to...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Not the system the Sun. There are so many Solar Water Heaters available now that it is embarressing. Anyone who owns their own home and doesn’t install one is an Energy Hog. Tankless water heater owners are given a pass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
If the Geothermal Heat Pump is the best, why not use it throughout the hous It’s true, you could use a Geothermal Heat Pump to refrigerate your food and heat your water. It’s expensive and against many of the prinicipals CES stand for. Why W...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
It is true I thought the Gnats were gone and they were not. My neck swelled up right over my jugular vein..scarey stuff!
Can you tell the differenceI can’t. Isn’t that weird
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Community Energy Systems mission is to educate the public regarding energy conservation, energy efficiency, and the prudent and fair operation of utility companies. We believe that mission requires both intellectual and practical applications.
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Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Short of Heating your house with Solar and cooling your house with evaporated water, this is the closest thing we have right now to an environmentally sound system. Its advantage is that it heats and cools the house as one unit and the Earth becomes your ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Just kidding. It’s hard to concentrate on the residential housing market when everyone is all aflutter about the high prices of gasoline and the artificially high oil prices. I wish gasoline prices would double again. Then we would see some real doo...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
That’s right for you rap fans Hump up to the Heat Pump, Jump up to my Heat Pump it’ll burn you baby!…Well maybe not. The idea behind a heat pump is temperature differential. When its cold outside you throw heat inside because the fluid i...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
I know, there are better ways to cool your house than you cool your food. Nonetheless it must be discussed for the people who just can’t do it any other way.
http://www.bobvila.com/HowTo_Library/EnergyWise_House_Energy_Efficient_Air_Conditioning-Air...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Probably not but we will drive less. Using oil for transportation is dumb.
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
So I don’t really have an excuse for not doing the bird on Friday but sadly my partner Susan Kay has lost her way. She no longer posts so I may have to consider letting the Bird fly away. Sigh.I thought I would show the “trick” to the Hu...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
The big energy hogs in the house are the HVAC, The refrigerator and the water heater.
HVAC in the residentail market simply means a combine furnace and airconditioner that share the same ventilation system. but we will treat them as seperate units for eas...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
So many of us preach to the choir that we forget some people don’t know how to sing. Most people’s cognitive map of a house puts the basement in a “safe” area. Safe from storms and thus the outside world. But basements leak energy ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
Believe it or not typical Concrete Products and single pane glass have the same R-Value - 1. That is because they readily give up heat because of their porus nature and in part because they are good conductors. There is a reason why castles were cold and ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
The problem with this topic is everyone is in the window business or the window advice business. It’s like ceiling fans, the makers are everywhere, they make tons of products, and their are millions of opinions about them. So I will try to be simple...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 months ago.
The term was started in the “new build” industry but it has since migrated to the built environment as well. The general concept is that there is no such thing as TOO MUCH insulation in the residential market. It can provide living space that ...
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