From the New York Times on Monday, December 29, 2008:
Call it CSI: Thermal Police — energy experts armed with mostly low-tech tools but strong sleuthing skills, finding flaws that let the air inside a house go through a full exchange with the outdoors twice an hour, instead of once every two or three hours.
Correct those flaws, and heating and cooling costs are typically cut by 20 percent to 30 percent, a saving of more than $1,000 annually in some households. In addition, carbon dioxide emissions and the strain on the national electric and gas systems are reduced.
About 140,000 houses will be weatherized with public help this year, a total that President-elect Barack Obama has promised to raise to one million, to reduce energy consumption and cut energy costs for households and taxpayers, who often absorb those costs for the poor. This would represent a historic shift in emphasis for the federal and state governments, reducing poor people’s energy bills instead of helping to pay them.
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It is so much easier to reduce energy consumption than to find new sources of non-renewable resources, extract them, refine them and bring them to market.
Over the past year we have collected, through the contributions of many individuals, over 240 different home energy conservation suggestions of which 106 cost absolutely nothing to do and a further 74 cost next to nothing to do.
We have the ever growing list here on our home web site:
http://dailyhomerenotips.com/energy-conservation/
The easiest way to conserve money is to reduce those monthly utility bills. And, we are talking after tax dollars at that. Once we employ the many different energy conservation tips in the above list, our personal utility bills will go down month after month after month after …. 🙂 and with those savings we can buy food, pay the mortgage or credit card balances or even pay to have installed solar air heaters or exterior solar shades or solar water heaters or …..
Dan