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choatso
Oct 7, 2010 8:08PM
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Hurt the earth my *SS maybe a nucular bomb 
Muriap
Sep 18, 2010 7:21AM
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Seriously, they couldn't come up with anything better than these? Isn't it pretty much a given that if you're buying a new refrigerator, and putting the old one in the garage, that it's going to ADD to your fuel costs?

 

I also understand the concept of buying local, but how do you know whether the hardwood flooring you're buying is better than the bamboo? Maybe it came from the other side of the world, or was harvested here, shipped somewhere else to be cut, shipped somewhere else to be packaged, then shipped back? It seems to me something that grows 14 feet a year is a better solution than cutting down a tree that's going to take 50 years to replace. 

 

I do appreciate DavidBl's suggestions on the curtains. It would be great to reduce the amount of energy we use in the winter.

MinnesotaShine
Sep 2, 2010 3:59PM
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The  "POWER WASTING" glowbar only operates for a few seconds while the oven burner lights.

It is NOT on for an extended period of time.

The expert is ignorant of a number of facts, like most "Experts".



DavidBl
Sep 1, 2010 6:44AM
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Sometimes it's the little things that help the most.  We use heavy curtains on the largest windows.  They provide for cooler summer temps indoors and for more heat retention during the winter. Summers we use small reversible fans mostly.  This summer we used our 5,000btu window air unit 3 days total.  We use an under the sheet bed warmer in the winter with the thermostat at 66 deg.  Our monthly utility bills average less than $100 a month. Unlike gas guzzler's negative comments..all you'll see from me is good suggestions.
laishih
Aug 25, 2010 12:55PM
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what is needed, but difficult to get, are life-cycle analyses of products that factor in production, transportation, the sources of the raw materials and how long the products last.
nancauk
Aug 25, 2010 12:54PM
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If something lasts for 100 years and doesn't have to be replaced, that can be very green,

The whole thing is a trade-off. There are no easy answers.
ruguoaia
Aug 25, 2010 12:52PM
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Many things in home, from your plasma television to your simple little toaster, draw power all day and night just by being plugged in.
ruguoaia
Aug 25, 2010 12:51PM
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There's not a wind, breeze or draft that can get past Tedd Benson, a New Hampshire-based builder who specializes in energy-efficient homes.
chooru
Aug 25, 2010 12:49PM
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Nate Kredich, vice president for residential market development at the U.S. Green Building Council, says what is needed, but difficult to get, are life-cycle analyses of products that factor in production, transportation, the sources of the raw materials and how long the products last.
chooru
Aug 25, 2010 12:48PM
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In fact, just the opposite, I've often heard them say they 'love their job so much, they would work for nothing'..


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