Prepare Your Home For Winter As the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, it’s time to prepare your home for the cold winter months ahead. One of the easiest Do-It-Yourself projects to complete, is sealing the air leaks in your home. This project also has great financial paybacks – saving you more money [...]
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HDTV Settings = Cheaper Electrical Bill Make a couple of simple menu changes to your HDTV’s picture settings and you can save you up to $50 a year on your power bill, according to the A/V experts at THX. A survey by THX took more than a dozen plasma and LCD HDTVs and compared their pre- and post-calibration energy [...]
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What is the Best Energy Saving Tip We have presented several simple energy saving tips over the years. What item to you find, works the best for you? Some of my favorites include: Use a clothesline – cost very little to install and nothing to use, once in place. Use CFL or LED lights- these [...]
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Energy Saving Tips Heating and Cooling Tips set the temp back a couple of degrees when heating and up a couple of degrees when cooling. You’ll adjust to the new temperatures over a couple of days. keep blinds, shades and drapes closed to keep heat out in the summer. Open during daylight hours in [...]
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Typical Monthly Electricity Usage The following table shows the typical electricity usage, in kilowatt hours, for a home in Ontario. You will notice there are no numbers for heating, other than the cost to run a furnace fan, as the primary home heating source in Ontario is natural gas or fuel oil . As well, your air conditioning numbers [...]
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Google.org Powermeter – electrical usage info in your hands If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. So Google is going to make it easy for you to measure and see, just what your household electrical usage looks like. Google PowerMeter, now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management [...]
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Economics of a Lightbulb Forget about saving the world for a moment and let’s just look at putting some money in your pocket. Incandescent vs CFL DETAILS Incandescent CFL Typical cost of bulb $0.40 $2.60 Average life in hours 1,000 10,000 Cost of electricity $/kwh $0.10 $0.10 Power of bulb in watts 60 15 Cost [...]
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Waking up from The American Dream Continuing to consume excessively, as a way of life, is neither desirable nor possible. It’s time to create a more moderate, more enjoyable, less frantic, American lifestyle. No more “keeping up with the Jones”. It’s time to measure our wealth in terms of our family, friends, health, free time [...]
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