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Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 6
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 6 Welcome to the final week, week 6, of the Home Energy Conservation Challenge! If you’re here for the first time, you can find how this challenge works here. If you have taken the action steps explained in the previous five (5) weeks of the Energy Challenge, you know [...]
How Much Energy Does it Take to Dry America’s Clothes?
Monday, March 16th, 2009How Much Energy Does it Take to Dry America’s Clothes? For those of you in energy conservation mode – or would like to be – here’s an interesting information tid-bit from Kilowatt Ours. Question: How much energy does it take to dry Americans clothes per year? Answer: Eleven (11) power plants worth! Please join me [...]
Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 2
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 2 Welcome to this week’s Home Energy Conservation Challenge! If you’re here for the first time, you can find how this challenge works here. Remember our grocery shopping analogy from last week? If not, here it is again: Imagine that you go to the grocery store every week, pick [...]
Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 1
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Simple Home Solar Energy’s Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 1 Welcome to this week’s Home Energy Conservation Challenge! If you’re here for the first time, you can find how this challenge works here. We’ll start our challenge today with a grocery shopping analogy. Imagine that you go to the grocery store every week, pick [...]
Energy Conservation by Individual Choice
Friday, January 16th, 2009Image via Wikipedia Energy Conservation by Individual Choice The mission here at Simple Home Solar Energy is to “go solar.” The goal is to eventually produce all the energy our home requires. The process to turn our home into a solar energy generator is documented here, in this blog. Not being a trained engineer or [...]
Is the Energy Crisis Over?
Monday, January 12th, 2009Image by Getty Images via Daylife Is the Energy Crisis Over? In desperate times, we do what we can to address the immediate crisis. This past summer the high cost of energy initiated a crisis mode. Americans drove less, spent less, and elected a new president with lofty energy promises. Today, gasoline prices are down [...]
Home Energy Diet Resumes
Monday, January 5th, 2009Image by dianaschnuth via Flickr 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 [...]
Energy Conservation vs. Energy Efficiency
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Image by ATIS547 via Flickr Energy Conservation vs. Energy Efficiency Joining the solar energy revolution requires a new vocabulary. It means research, investigation, and a learning curve. Switching to solar energy requires, well…energy. Going solar is a process. The steps of the process are: • Conservation • Efficiency • Solar Initially, you may wonder about [...]
Programmable Thermostats for Home Energy Conservation
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Image via Wikipedia Programmable Thermostats for Home Energy Conservation On this solar energy journey, one of the most helpful gadgets to help reduce home energy consumption and thereby reducing the size of the solar energy system required, is a programmable thermostat. The Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) estimates a programmable thermostat can save the average [...]
Reducing Home Energy at Christmas
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Image via Wikipedia Reducing Home Energy at Christmas Basically, this blog is a journal about our quest for energy independence. We want to go solar but there’s a long and winding road to get there. We set our eyes on the goal and have made small but meaningful changes that greatly reduced our home energy [...]
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