Summer Energy Efficient Windows — Part 8

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

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Summer Energy Efficient Windows  — Part 8
It’s summer now here in South Texas. Those energy efficient windows are calling my name!
The solar energy coming our way brings heat and lots of it. The aim of energy efficient windows is to keep that solar thermal energy at bay!the cost may be prohibitive, even with [...]

Weather Stripping Repaired

Monday, May 11th, 2009

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Weather Stripping Repaired
A couple weeks ago I posted  about our worn out weather stripping around our front door. http://simplehomesolarenergy.com/home-energy-use/weather-stripping-wears-out/ .
On closer investigation, we found that our front door had a flat jamb, the vertical piece of the doors frame. Attaching more weather stripping was awkward having nothing to attach more weather [...]

Weather Stripping Wears Out

Monday, April 27th, 2009

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Weather Stripping Wears Out
Note to self: Weather stripping does not last forever.
Early this morning I walked past my front door and had a shock.
I could see daylight coming through the gap between the front door and the doorjamb. Funny, I didn’t remember the gap there being so huge. I looked closer [...]

Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 2

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Home 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 up all the [...]

Home Energy Conservation Challenge – Week 1

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Simple 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 up all the [...]

Home Energy and the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)

Monday, February 9th, 2009

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Home Energy and the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)
The Alliance to Save Energy is pleased about a new piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass). If enacted, the Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS) legislation would reduce national energy use while incorporating renewable energy sources.
That sounds good. I do want to reduce my [...]

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Monday, January 19th, 2009

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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
Did you know you can calculate your home energy carbon footprint? There’s a nifty carbon footprint calculator at BeGreenNow.com. All you have to do is enter your kilowatt-hour usage and/or your natural gas usage for the month (or year).
Using the BeGreenNow calculator, I calculated my home’s [...]

Home Energy Reduction Progress

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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Our Home Energy Reduction 2008 Progress
This week I paid my last electric utility bill for 2008. As mentioned in Monday’s post we went off our “energy diet” during the holidays, so the monthly bill was higher than usual.
Still, in spite of our holiday energy binge, we used fewer kilowatt-hours (kWh) than [...]

Home Energy Diet Resumes

Monday, January 5th, 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 [...]