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Home Energy Diet Resumes

By Solar energy | January 5, 2009

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Home Energy Diet Resumes

During the holiday season, we have been off our home energy diet. With family and friends here to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year, we set the thermostat back up to 70 degrees, turned the hot water heater timer off, and used the clothes dryer a lot!

Family and friends have returned to their respective homes. While we are coming off four (4) weeks of caloric intake well beyond the recommended daily allowance, we are also re-adjusting to more conservative home energy consumption.

The thermostat is back to 68/65 degrees, the timer switch once again controls the hot water heater, and no clothes dryer except on rainy days.

And it is time to re-assess and make plans for 2009.

Energy conservation and energy efficiency remains our path toward a solar powered home.

Mark and I have focused our physical energy on reducing our home energy for about six (6) months now. And we are making progress (in spite of an energy binge during the holidays).

But I can’t help but think we could do much better connected with others on this same path.

I’m thinking an Energy Conservation Challenge would be great incentive for each of us to put our best “carbon footprint” forward. I hope you interested folks out there will join us.

Check back with us here at Simple Home Solar Energy the rest of the week for more details.

And if any of you have suggestions, I’d love to hear them via the comment link below.

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  1. Home Energy Reduction Progress | Simple Home Solar Energy Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:23 pm

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