Monthly Archives: July 2012

Conserving Water and Money

Save water, energy and money all around the house

Everybody knows the significance of saving electric power and as well as saving money, but most people do not comprehend how much water most of us use every day, there is a cost related to using water, particularly hot water. Your life style accounts for a great deal of wasted water and if you are willing to take the time to improve a few of your behaviors as well as being aware of some simple truths you’ll make a positive change in your power bills.

If you just save a small amount of water on a daily basis it’s going to accumulate within the year into large savings.

Here is a listing of several straightforward actions you can take to conserve water, energy as well as money using very little effort

Correct any leaking water lines and / or faucets; a fixture leaking just one drop of water per second can easily waste 2700 gallons a year.

How much money is that; particularly if it really is hot water that is leaking? Read more...

Go Green With Geothermal Heat

The phrase ‘Going Green’ is as well known in today’s world as the phrases ‘Cup of Joe’ and ‘Get a Life!’ The term simply means to reduce, reuse and recycle, or more simply to become energy efficient.

The green movement has been going on since the early 1830′s and Henry David Thoreau is thought to be one its most influential contributors. With so many followers these days, die hard environmentalists are being accused of cultism and causing mass hysteria with threats of climate change and global warming (both of which are hugely debated concepts). Even if our world isn’t slowly warming and climate change is not a real threat, becoming more energy efficient just makes more sense. A Geothermal heating system is one way you can do this in your own home.

Becoming Energy Efficient with Geothermal Heat
Geothermal heat uses a single unit to deliver hot airthroughout your home by tapping into the Earth’s natural energy.

The result is energy efficiency and hot air in your home that far surpasses the traditional forced-air systems. This is because geothermal heat collects natural solar energy that has been absorbed by the earth, instead of burning fuel. Read more...

Real Energy Saving Case Study

Architectural roll-out work is one of my specalities. You know a client needs a whole lot of the same building all over the place. Mostly this is restaurant architecture but in this case the client was a bank. One of the most interesting things about this type of work is when I get to do experiments, making variations in the building and comparing the results. This is the story of one of those experiments. I think you will find these results compelling. Read more...

Water-heating “hot” new attempt to push for energy efficiency market Enclosure – water heaters,

Water heater housing upstart energy market
Haier, A? O Smith pushing new energy-saving technologies, Ming Wong rush
market for solar energy 2 28, “Renewable Energy Law” in X. NPC Standing Committee of the 14th Meeting were voted. The law promotes wind energy, solar energy, hydropower, biomass, geothermal, ocean energy, and increase other non-fossil energy development and utilization to improve China’s current energy mix, energy supply, environmental protection, to achieve the economic and social sustainable development.

Focus will be conducted according to a survey, the current
solar water heaters accounted for 11.2% of the water heater market, according to forecasts by the year 2015, China’s solar water heaters by the national authorities will reach 30 percent penetration rate, the annual production of approximately 43.8 billion.

There are 30.6% of consumer choice when purchasing solar water heaters, solar water heaters with the promotion of universal access and the emergence of the current shortage in some areas of consumer buying solar system (system) is the preferred rate rose to 90.5%. Read more...

Hawaii Geothermal Power

Did you know that beneath the surface of the Hawaiian Islands, there’s an intense cauldron of heat, gas and pressure? This might not be news to many, considering Hawaii’s abundance of volcanic activity, but the true potential of this fact is much more than just boiling lava and erupting volcanoes. In reality, a ton of Hawaii geothermal power can be generated by simply tapping into these unseen resources; geothermal energy that will save residents hundreds on their energy bills.

First, we must understand what Hawaii geothermal power is and how it’s used. The short and simple answer is that geothermal energy is energy that is naturally generated by forces in the earth. For example, tectonic plates shifting and underground volcanoes are two of the biggest perpetrators of geothermal energy.

It’s in essence, energy that is created without a human element, unlike the energy created through traditional fossil fuels.

Hawaii geothermal power is derived mainly from the chemical reactions that are taking place far below the Island surface. Noxious gasses are forming and breaking bonds, allowing them to give off energy with each reaction. By harnessing the energy produced through each reaction, scientists and engineers are able to create a sustainable, useable source of power from this. And thus we have useable geothermal energy. Read more...

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