Responses inline below denoted thusly -- ### ldb ... ### Paul, RatShack still sells that lamp according to their website. Also, a standard LED should work fine...
Recently posted on www.PeakOil.com: Today, I started figuring out my "energy budget." For December, our household consumed 1.59 kilowatts per person,...
Jan, In my experience you'll get from 15 to 20,000 hours out of a compression
generator before you have to do a bottom end job not replace Of course I have no...
Your example of about 1180 kwh per month clearly illustrates another important point, that demand reduction is much more important than finding alternative ...
Hello I found a web page about wind electricity production in the Sahara Atlantic coast. Indeed very near Portugal were I live. We do not have the wind ...
Hi, The ventilation issue has recently occupied my mind quite a bit. The need for a certain level of ventilation has lead me to one obvious conclusion: The...
Under normal circumstances humans require 20 CFM [cubic feet per minute] of fresh air for respiration and removal of moisture and odor. In a typical dedicated...
"But a large-scale close arrangement of wind turbine weakens the global supply of energy to the Wind Park." This is a rather curious statement. I can see how...
... This is a matter of scale. Wind turbines do extract energy from moving air (where else does the energy come from?), thereby depriving the windstream of...
... I based that on the spec'd lifetime of my generator of 10,000 hours. It's air-cooled. I forgot to mention that the gas generator running on ethanol...
... I agree completely! But getting people to do that... ... No problem with this. But I'm certain we do much better than average. We have an extra 6" of...
Good Day All, Modern commercial HVAC systems use air to air heat exchangers. In this way the air going out exchanges heat or cold with the air coming in. In...
Good Day Jan, I am puzzled at your cost numbers for solar, but I appreciate your efforts at quantifying these costs and usage figures. Palo Alto Hardware, in...
The results of air leakage tests on hundreds of new and existing houses has shown that wall plugs are not usually a significant source of air leakage. It is,...
A typical R2000 type, 2000 sq.ft. energy conserving house, in Whitehorse Yukon with a 12260 heating degree day climate uses about 100 million BTU total energy...
Excellent study done on the comparing Hydrogen and Electric industry. Now if I can get a copy to Arnold........ Carrying the Energy Future, Comparing Hydrogen...
Hi MJ, I'd heard of the Canadian standards - read an article on houses in the UK built to those specs. Interesting stuff. What I'm trying to achieve is a model...
Fresh air ventilation is provided for the health of the people in the building not for the building. That's why the fresh air ventilation rates established by...
... That would work great on the sunny side of Mercury! But we have this issue called "night" on earth, and in the Pacific Northwest, we have something more...
Global Climate Change and the Bush Presidency: Visionary Leadership at its Strongest It is well-known that global climate change has been one of the "hottest"...
... Wow, what a selfserving, unenlightened article. That 'vision' is what has gotten most of the world's peoples to hate US gov't/corp aggression. (including...
Kyoto Efficiency Charts and Calculators Compiled by Guy Dauncey Under Kyoto, we are asked to play our part as individuals, as well as seeking CO2 reductions in...
Here's the text of the announcement (also available at http://www.eaaev.org/ December 15, 2004 EAA Funds CalCars' PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid Project The Electric...
[] [] A weekly newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) <http://www.eere.energy.gov/>Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The...
http://www.energyhog.org/ Is there an energy hog lurking in your home?... Here you’ll find simple energy efficiency measures for your home, get a checklist...
Good Day Jan, Maybe you could run polar bears on treadmills? JUST KIDDING! 3200 kW is 3,200,000 Watts. Are you sure this is correct? Way down here in the...
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/05/weeks-knobloch/?source=daily Political ScienceAn interview with Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of...