Monday, August 31st, 2009 124 views
I lowered my energy bill without solar panels. Almost everyone thinks that the only way to lower your energy bill is with solar panels. This is not true. I was about to lower my energy bill by 23% and now I’m going to share with you exactly how I did it.
Insulate Windows - Making sure that your windows insulate correctly is probably the single best thing you can do to lower your monthly energy bill. If you have single pane windows your money is literally going out the window. Single pane windows are really bad insulators. Changing to double pane windows will save you a ton of money but they are expensive. You can put up heat sealing drapes in the summer and storm windows in the winter. This will save you a ton of money. You may want to take a room by room approach. The first room you should do this in is the family room.
Ventilate Your Attic - Hot air needs to escape from your attic. If your attic air vents become clogged, which they will over time with dust, your attic will hold the hot air and ultimately making your air conditioner work too hard. You must clean your attic vents to allow the hot air to escape from your house (remember, hot air rises). If your attic does not have air vents you need to go down to your hardware store right now and buy some ventilation kits and put a few in.
Air Conditioner Filters - A dirty air filter makes your air conditioner work much harder which means it takes more energy to do its job. Changing your air conditioner filters once a month will save you money off your monthly energy bill.
Filter In Your Range - Hardly anyone knows about the filter in the fan above their range. This fan uses a ton of electricity. These fans get clogged with grease quickly and a clogged fan will make it work twice as hard costing you a ton of money. You need to change your filter every 9 to 12 weeks depending on how much you use it. Most people never change this filter until the fan motor burns out and it actually stops working.
Save Money By Turning Off Lights - You should go around to all your lights and lower the wattage on all your bulbs. Do not leave lights on when you leave the room. Do not use outside lights. A single outside light that uses a standard 60-watt bulb will cost you about $10 a month. Forget using dimmer lights as they don’t save you very much. Use fluorescent lights whenever and wherever possible.
Appliances Power Usage - If you want to understand how the solar power calculate works or you want to calculate this manually you first need to estimate how many hours per day you use the appliance. You then use this formula: Wattage / 1,000 x hrs/day x $/kWh / 30 days/month = total cost per month. A refrigerator uses 540 watts per hour. If your refrigerator runs for 125 hours a week, that’s 125 hours / 7 days = 17.9 hours per day. Here’s what a month’s worth of use costs you: 540 / 1,000 x 17.9 x 0.15 x 30 = $43.50 per month. If you are using a central air conditioner (for 10 hours a day during the hot summer months) it’s costing you: 4000 / 1,000 x 10 x 0.15 x 30 = $180.00 per month.
By Todd Dornan. To read more ways you can save money off your monthly power bill go to solar panels
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Monday, August 31st, 2009 118 views
I’ve got my monthly energy bill down big time and I did it without solar panels. My energy bill is 25% less than the previous month. Here is how I did it.
Insulate Those Windows - I always laugh when I see someone with solar panels and single pane windows. Talk about swallowing a camel! Single pane windows are horrible. The average person loses about $2 a day in cool air or heat escaping out their single pane windows. You need to have double pane windows. Double pane windows cost a lot of money so just focus on doing one room at a time. Start with your living room and slowly work through every window in your house.
Ventilate Your Attic - Hot air needs to escape from your attic. If your attic air vents become clogged, which they will over time with dust, your attic will hold the hot air and ultimately making your air conditioner work too hard. You must clean your attic vents to allow the hot air to escape from your house (remember, hot air rises). If your attic does not have air vents you need to go down to your hardware store right now and buy some ventilation kits and put a few in.
Change Those Air Filters - Dirty air filters will cost you a lot of money because it will make your air conditioner work too hard to keep your home cool. You need to change your air filters once a month if you want to save money off your monthly energy bill.
Change Your Stove Fan Filter - The fan that is located above your stove will get backed up with grease quickly. Fortunately, there is a filter in this fan that catches all that grease. The problem is that most people do not know that this fan even has a filter so they never change it. When this filter is clogged with grease, your fan has to work twice as hard costing you even more money.
Watch Those Lights - Lower the wattage of all the light bulbs in your home. Turn off lights when you are not in the room. Do not leave lights on at night. Just one outside light that is 60-watts will cost you about $10 a month. Dimmer lights do not save you very much. The best lights to use are fluorescent lights.
Learn How To Calculate Energy Costs - You need to learn how much the things in your home are costing you in terms of energy cost each month. The formula is wattage / 1000 x hours used per day x your kWh charge (found on your monthly bill) / 30 days in a month = total cost of energy per month for that appliance. Let us do an example problem. If you are using a central air conditioner for 10 hours per day during the summer, it is costing you: 4000 / 1000 x 10 x 0.15 x 30 = $180 a month.
Written by Todd Dornan. To see the secrets of saving money off your power bill please visit solar panels
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Monday, August 31st, 2009 52 views
Basically if a water damage situation arises then it should be considered as a serious situation. But it is very important to stay cool and find out the right contractor for your needs. Also important is the knowledge about the laws ruling the state.
These days water damage restoration is one of the fast growing and developing industries. Earlier the contractor used to set up a few fans in a flooded cellar. Now the technology has developed and people have understood the serious negative health consequence that can be caused due to mold, mildew, and bacteria growth, and above all the technologies had been much better to undertake the water restoration job.
Without thinking twice, the main step a homeowner requires furnishing when faced with flood or other water damage is to spare no time in drying the area out.
As has already been mentioned, the old standby of setting up all of your house fans to dry out a flooded basement or structure really isn’t very effective in the long run.
It may do a satisfactory job on the surface, but deeper water damage to walls, wood, carpet and furniture, along with insufficient drying, can lead to more serious consequences and in extreme conditions, actual damage to the structural integrity of the home itself.
To fight all the problems, the best option is to hire an expert water damage restoration specialist to handle the work.
These tradesmen are well-equipped with the latest methods of water damage restoration, and they have the knowledge to the most cutting edge technology available to dry out your home and shield injurious fungi and bacteria from traction.
A good restoration specialist will set up dehumidifiers, air purifiers, blowers, fans, and special floor driers and cleaners to quickly and efficiently dry out your water damaged home. Besides these standard steps, and depending on the extent of the damage, your technician might also employ the use of wall driers, sanitizers, and mold and mildew remediation techniques and equipment to ensure that what is already a bad situation doesn’t get worse over time.
Scott Rodgers is a noted writer who has been providing superb guidance on plumbing works all over the country. His splendid knowledge has, in fact, sparked significant rise in revenue for talented plumbers across the nation, from Vacaville Plumbers to San Francisco Plumbers.
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Monday, August 31st, 2009 49 views
Can it be that a DIY solar system was created by a man who pulled an old TV lens from the trash?
A Worldsnest writer created a DIY homemade energy system by digging in a garbage can. He has made a 6 kwh solar power system for under $5,000. A 6 kwh solar power system with PV panels and professional install costs about $70,000.
Now keep in mind that the powers that be in America want you to think that after 10 years of research and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, they still cant come up with such a system. Yeah right. Exxon, Chevron, GE, and the U.S. Department of Energy dont like these kinds of DIY solar power systems because they cant make money off it. The big oil companies want a solution that involves keeping you as a paying customer. The government wants a system they can tax. Both only want a solar solution that enriches them at your expense.
The oil tycoons in America will simply not allow a DIY system that empowers the people to produce their own electricity completely free of charge.
But it actually gets far more sinister than just this. Nigerians are being killed in the name of the Oil trade. Nigeria is just one country of many where in order to get oil from a country, we have brought great harm to the average person. In Nigeria, big oil executives are actually telling the government what poor neighborhoods they would like bulldozed in order to make room for luxury housing for oil executives and American workers. You can actually watch a video of houses being demolished and even churches all in the name of oil and gas for the American consumer.
In Burma, U.S. oil corporations financed and assisted the Burmese military junta with the torture and murder of villagers during construction of a pipeline. As the United Nations Security Council condemns the Burmese military junta, calls are increasing for foreign multinational companies to stop working with the Burmese military government. In the United States, much of the criticism has been focused on the California-based oil company Chevron. Chevron is one of the largest foreign investors in Burma and is the only remaining major U.S. corporation with a significant presence there. A Burmese citizen said, “Until the pipeline came, there were no soldiers in the area. In our village we were planting rice. When the pipeline arrived, we had to work for the white people more and more. The soldiers were forcing us to be slaves. If we refused to work, they said they would kill us. Because of the white people, our village was destroyed and we had to flee. They shot at my husband and he ran away in the jungle. I waited for him with my children. A soldier hit me with his gun. I fell and hit my head on a stone and lost consciousness. When I woke up, I saw my baby in the fire. She couldn’t even cry. Her body was so burned and all black.”
So this ordinary American created a DIY homemade solar system that could end our huge dependency on oil. The U.S. Department of Energy has given big oil millions of dollars in so called “research grants” for alternative energy development. Notice that no one has produced a solution as good and as cheap as this ordinary American in the video below. Has the U.S. Department of Energy been running a scam on tax payers that has benefited big oil for all these years? I think it is a valid question after we see what a man with no research budget whatsoever has come up with and even used parts from the trash to build it.
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Written by Lance Jensen. For free plans to build your own solar power system and other ways you can stick it to the big oil companies go to diy homemade solar panels
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