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Home Energy Audit Checklist
Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audit Checklist Making your home green by conducting a do-it-yourself home energy audit is very easy to do. With a simple but careful inspection, you can isolate problems in your house where you are losing energy and correct them. When auditing your home, make sure you keep track of what you do in [...]
Do Energy Efficient Technologies Really Lower Energy Usage?
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com Recently, Michael Shellenberger, President of the Breakthrough Institute, posted an article by a leading energy economist, Harry Saunders – one of the authors of a recent paper in the Journal of Physics, explaining why energy efficiency does not decrease energy consumption. In his article, he examines specifically the [...]
Multifamily Residential Buildings Present Huge Opportunity for Energy and Financial Savings
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com One the largest opportunities for saving energy and lowering utility costs exists with multifamily residential buildings. Multifamily residential buildings are a type of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building. The most basic example of a multifamily building is an apartment [...]
Enforcing Energy-Efficiency Standards
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has said that when it comes to remediating climate change and promoting energy independence, improved energy efficiency is not just low-hanging fruit—it’s fruit lying on the ground. In other words, improving the energy efficiency of the products that we all use must be a critical component of any long-term national [...]
States That Consume the Least Amount of Electricity Are Great Candidates for Energy Efficient Solutions
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com Recently, the San Diego Union-Tribune published data indicating that the individuals in states that use the least amount of power, pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country. This seems to be counter-intuitive but the reason is fairly simple: utility companies have to spread the costs [...]
Upping Efficiency Standards, Lowering Utility Bills
Purchasing energy-efficient appliances is one of the easiest and most important ways consumers have to save money, reduce their electricity consumption and help cut down on carbon pollution. We use appliances every day – to cook our food, cool our homes, heat our water and clean our clothes. In fact, for a typical U.S. family, [...]
GE’s Bright Idea
General Electric (GE) created a new look for their Reveal CFL light bulbs but the look for this energy efficient light bulb is anything but new to consumers. GE decided to create a CFL light bulb that looks more like the traditional light bulb. GE initially tried this concept out with Energy Smart CFLs in [...]
How Viable Is ‘Clean Coal’?
What can or should Congress to do incentivize “clean coal” technology? An administration task force said in a report last week that while the barriers to “clean coal” technology — known as carbon capture and storage (CCS) — can be overcome, deploying it on a wide scale means setting a price on carbon emissions. Evidence [...]
Disturbed Land Becomes Destination for Solar Farms
One of environmentalists’ major concerns about adding solar farms in places such as the Mojave Desert is the destruction of land and disturbance of the natural habitat. But what if that land was already destroyed due to salt contamination from over-irrigation? Could these environmentalists bear to place a solar farm over this disturbed land? Right [...]
U.S. Military Going Green?
One would not expect green technology to be a focal point of the U.S. Department of Defense but lately, the military has been working with more and more green technology, for reasons other than what you’re probably accustomed to. As the Pentagon is forced to work on leaner and leaner budgets, they are looking for [...]
