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| Tuesday, December 28 | | · | Thanks from WattBusters |
| · | Technology and Safer Chimneys |
| · | Hot Tips in a Cold Bathroom |
| · | Portable Motion Sensor LED Light For Everyone |
| · | Global Coal Demand Up, Mining Surging |
| · | Ancient Baghdad Battery |
| Monday, November 29 | | · | Cow Flatulence - Global Warming Stinks |
| · | Travel, Turkey and the Thanksgiving Flush |
| Monday, October 25 | | · | Oil Be Home for Christmas - Energy Spike for Home Heating Expected |
| · | Blinded by the Light - Color Temperature |
| · | Candy Energy - Sugar Bomb |
| Thursday, October 21 | | · | Michigan PSC predicts High Heating Bills This Winter |
| Tuesday, October 19 | | · | Halloween - The Trick or Treat of Daylight Saving Time |
| Friday, September 17 | | · | Idle Worship |
| · | California Tripping - Air You Go |
| · | Water Whirled - Southern Cal |
| · | Wind Power at Altamont - Beak Efficiency |
| · | Solar Chimney - Size Matters |
| Monday, August 23 | | · | Energy Hogbusters For Kids - Battle of the Bulb |
| · | Weatherstripping - To Air Is Human |
| · | Blackout and Blue Skies - What the Haze is Going On? |
| · | H2-Oh Look At That Water Bill |
| Friday, July 23 | | · | Device Saves Nearly 100% of Energy |
| · | Trying To Maintain |
| · | Let There Be Light |
| · | The Habitual Roast |
| Monday, July 12 | | · | American Idle |
| · | Technology Whiz - No Flush Urinals |
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| Energy Hogbusters For Kids - Battle of the Bulb
Monday, August 23 @ 10:47:57 EDT
by webmaster |
 Do you want a fun, safe place to spend time with your kids but you don't have the energy (literally and figuratively) to travel? Well you're in luck. We discovered http://www.energyhog.org which is a great online site for kids to learn about the possible energy hogs in your home. The Hogbuster games make it fun to battle the pesky hogs. They have names like, Mork Pork, Ivanna Hamm, Kelvin Bacon and Penelope Pigg. Each hog has 'vital statistics' and can be 3D rotated for a closer inspection.
As the games progress, your kids can navigate the floorplan of a home and find the different types of hogs that exist. The bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, attic and living room are all covered. Game names are Fridge Frenzy, Bulb Hunter, Whack A Hog, Wacky Windows and Attic Attack. When you complete the games, you are presented with an Official Energy Hog Buster Certificate which you can print out.
So sit with your young one at the computer and learn about energy the fun way. Like the saying goes, "From the mouse of babes...."
The Energy Hog campaign was founded by Energy Outreach Colorado and the Colorado Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation OEMC) and was made possible by the generous support of many partners.
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| Weatherstripping - To Air Is Human
Monday, August 23 @ 10:42:05 EDT
by webmaster |
 Most homes have numerous little cracks, holes and spaces through which warm air escapes and cold air enters during the winter months. In the summer, it's just the opposite. Unwanted hot air enters and welcomed cool air escapes. All these little drafts of air can make a home uncomfortable in the winter and could cause ill health. Air leaks can also damage the home's insulation, because warm, moist air leaving the house dampens the insulation and reduces its heat-resisting effectiveness. And remember, all that cold air entering the house means you have to raise the thermostat setting to keep warm. This forces the furnace to work harder and use more fuel to keep indoor air at a comfortable temperature.
Even in homes that have been weatherized, air leaks account on the average, for 30-40% of the heat lost from the house. This is why weather-stripping is the first step one should take to stop energy waste and save unnecessary fuel costs.
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| Blackout and Blue Skies - What the Haze is Going On?
Monday, August 23 @ 10:36:06 EDT
by webmaster |
 In a recent study by researchers at the University of Maryland ("The 2003 North American Electrical Blackout: An Accidental Experiment in Atmospheric Chemistry") a surprising outcome of the blackout was that skies were dramatically bluer and the air was much healthier on the east coast than scientific models had expected.
Atmospheric measurements taken by the scientists some 24 hours after many power plants had essentially shut down found a 90 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide, a gas that leads to haze and acid rain, and a 50 percent reduction in smog, or ground-level ozone. The Maryland scientists also found that the amount of light scattering particles in the air dropped by 70 percent and visibility increased by some 20 miles.
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| H2-Oh Look At That Water Bill
Monday, August 23 @ 10:30:57 EDT
by webmaster |
 I'm a city guy. City traffic, city sidewalks and city water. The water bill arrives every three months just like clockwork. I don't think about water very much because I've always lived around the Great Lakes where there seems to be an abundance of it. My 'eye-opener' came last year when a faucet downstairs at the laundry tub developed a small drip, which turned into a regular leak and then a torrential downpour. What happens when you put off a simple repair? A $250 dollar water bill. That was enough to motivate me into finally fixing the leak and doing a little research into water.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system whose surface has liquid water. Water covers 71% of Earth's surface (97% of it being sea water and 3% fresh water). Two percent of the Earth's water (about 66% of all fresh water) is in solid form, found in ice caps and glaciers. Because it is frozen and so far away, the fresh water in ice caps is not available for use by people or plants. That leaves about 1% of all the Earth's water in a form useable to humans and land animals. This fresh water is found in lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, and in the ground. A small amount of water is found as vapor in the atmosphere.
The amount of water on Earth is fixed. We have the same amount of water on Earth as we did when time began. The main difference now is that demand for water continues to grow. Rising population and new housing trends put more people into areas that can become stressed for lack of sufficient, clean water. This dictates that we must be good stewards of the water resources we have available.
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| Device Saves Nearly 100% of Energy
Friday, July 23 @ 16:21:29 EDT
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WattBusters has discovered an exciting product that has the potential to save up to 100% of the input energy. That's more than a compact fluorescent and even more than LED technology. Being the perennial skeptic that I am, I decided to try the device this weekend. I was told that it uses absolutely no energy and I seriously wondered about the claim. To my amazement, it was almost all true. I did notice an extremely small amount of energy used when the device started up but after that, nothing!
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| Trying To Maintain
Friday, July 23 @ 16:16:34 EDT
by webmaster |
 When do you fix a piece of equipment that you own? Being able to justify expenditures for repairs can be very fuzzy whether you are looking at your home or your business. I know I'm guilty of putting off repairs and maintenance for as long as possible, all the while thinking that I'm saving money. Recently I read an article by Rick Fedrizzi called 'Do The Math' that made me question the wisdom of 'saving now'.
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| Let There Be Light
Friday, July 23 @ 16:06:59 EDT
by webmaster |
 THE SUN
When we talk about light, we have to look at both natural and man-made varieties. At the top of the list is old Sol, the Sun. We take him for granted because he pops up over the horizon every morning (except maybe in Michigan in the winter...) and he's just 'there'. It's pretty amazing when you think of the Sun as just one of billions of stars that just happens to be the right size and distance to light and heat our world. A little larger, we're toast, a little farther away and we're peop-sickles. This abridged lighting history reveals some of the quest to extend light into our lives during the night hours and into places where it can't naturally penetrate.
Sun Facts:
Diameter = 865,400 Miles
Average Surface Temperature = Approx. 10000 degrees Fahrenheit
Temperature at Core: 22.5 million Fahrenheit
Earth's Average Orbit Distance = 93,210,000 Miles
Mass: 330,000 x Earth
Luminosity: 390 billion billion megawatts
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| The Habitual Roast
Friday, July 23 @ 15:28:55 EDT
by webmaster |
 Here's an eye-opening story about a newlywed couple in the kitchen on a Sunday afternoon. As the wife was preparing a roast for dinner, the husband noticed that she cut the ends off the roast. The husband asked the wife why she did that and the wife replied, "I'm not sure but that's how I learned to prepare roast from my mother."
The next weekend while visiting Mom, the new bride asked her mother why she cut the ends off the roast. The mother replied, "Well dear, that's just the way I learned to cook roast from my mother. They always seem to turn out fine so I've never given it much thought."
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| American Idle
Monday, July 12 @ 17:41:05 EDT
by webmaster |
 Two gas pumps. One shows $2 per gallon. The other is $8 per gallon. You're not real thrilled about the price of either but you need to select one. Which would you choose? My guess is that it wouldn't be the one that costs four times as much as the other. Why would you throw away your hard-earned money when you don't have to? Your miles per gallon would remain exactly the same but your cost per mile would soar.
By sitting idle, many Americans make that expensive choice every day with their lighting. Every incandescent light bulb in your house uses approximately 4 times more energy than a compact fluorescent for every minute that it's turned on. We keep hammering home the idea that compact fluorescents use 1/4 the energy of regular incandescents but maybe the equation should be flipped. You are PAYING 4 times too much. DUH? It's understandable if you aren't aware of the technology but what's the excuse if you are aware?
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| Technology Whiz - No Flush Urinals
Monday, July 12 @ 17:37:25 EDT
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 Sometimes you come across bizarre, innovative new products that make you wonder, "How the heck can they do that"? We feel that way about the Waterless No-Flush™ Urinals. We're aware that they're not aimed at the residential market but the technology involved is worth a closer look. No-Flush™ urinals resemble conventional wall-hung fixtures but function on gravity flow and use absolutely no water. They don't require a water supply or flush valve and connect to standard 2" drain lines. They use the EcoTrap™ principle.
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