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ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’s
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DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my KillCRAWL SPACE HEATER
Yes, up to a point. Heat from the crawl space will rise into the home. But heat will also escape out poorly insulated crawl space walls, or through any gaps between the walls and the ground, through wall cracks, and through drafts on any windows and doors. So while a crawl space heater may solve the problem of cold living area floors, it ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my KillCRAWL SPACE HEATER
Yes, up to a point. Heat from the crawl space will rise into the home. But heat will also escape out poorly insulated crawl space walls, or through any gaps between the walls and the ground, through wall cracks, and through drafts on any windows and doors. So while a crawl space heater may solve the problem of cold living area floors, it ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS The HE-100 Air to Air Heat Exchanger from Suncourt produces 100 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air exchange between indoors and outdoors, and is suitable for a home of up to 2,000 square feet. (They also make a 150-CFM model for larger homes.) 70 to 80% of the heat is recovered in a typical installation. ENERGY SAVING WINDOW COVERINGS Plastic windowinsulation kits. Sealing your windows with plastic from the inside, for example with an energy saving window kit, can cut heat loss by up to 50%. The kit pictured on the left can seal up to 5 windows of 3 x 5 feet each. Other kits come in roll format or for larger windows or even patio doors.MORE COOLING TOPICS
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR Draftproofing a door can have almost as much of an impact as installing a new energy efficient front door. If you can feel a lot of cold coming through your front door in winter, a few simple steps can cut both your heating costs in winter and your cooling costs in summer. Why buy a new ENERGY STAR door for $500 or $1500 (along with$300-500
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These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. A SOLAR LIGHT TUBE PROVIDES NATURAL DAYLIGHT… The rooftop portion of a solar light tube is very good at capturing even diffuse, low-level sunlight, so you can have natural daylight all day, from dawn to dusk. Solar light tubes generally have an infrared barrier which allows visible-spectrum light into your home, but not solar heat (infrared radiation). THE INFRARED HEAT GUN Whatever model infrared heat gun you choose, you are sure to get many hours of use out of it, finding the hotspots and cold spots in your walls, floors and ceilings, your garage, your fridge, freezer, your car engine – anywhere that you might want to know the surface temperature. You can even use it to measure the temperature of yourcompost
FREEZER IN GARAGE
Answer from Green Energy Efficient Homes. Up to a point (or rather, down to a point), a freezer will run more efficiently in a cooler area, because there is less ambient heat to transfer into the freezer interior, and so less work for the compressor to do to remove that heat. However, freezers are designed and built within certaintemperature
ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? It is probably ever so slightly wasteful. The older the adapter the more electricity it is likely to use. I just plugged my daughter’s Lenovo ThinkPad (1-year-old model) into my Kill A Watt meter, after a full charge, and the charger alternates between 0 and 1 watts every few seconds – presumably because every few seconds it checks to see if the battery will take a charge, finds it won’t WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR That’s the average. Of course, you can do much better than that. As I mentioned Canadian and US total electricity consumption per capita is about the same, but I have heard smaller figures for Ontario, my home province, for domestic consumption, where the average is closer to 35 kWh a day for a typical family (substantially lower than the 50kWh above).
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERSCRAWL SPACE HEATER
Before you buy, look at other options. A crawl space heater may seem like the right solution to cold floors above a crawl space in winter. Heat the crawl space, and HOW DO FLUORESCENT LIGHTS WORK? A fluorescent ballast works around both of these problems. Early ballasts and those on some existing four-foot and eight-foot tube fluorescents were magnetic ballasts; they are bulky devices that provide the initial surge of high voltage current to get the ball rolling, and then slowly reduce the current as conductivity increased. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? It is probably ever so slightly wasteful. The older the adapter the more electricity it is likely to use. I just plugged my daughter’s Lenovo ThinkPad (1-year-old model) into my Kill A Watt meter, after a full charge, and the charger alternates between 0 and 1 watts every few seconds – presumably because every few seconds it checks to see if the battery will take a charge, finds it won’t WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR That’s the average. Of course, you can do much better than that. As I mentioned Canadian and US total electricity consumption per capita is about the same, but I have heard smaller figures for Ontario, my home province, for domestic consumption, where the average is closer to 35 kWh a day for a typical family (substantially lower than the 50kWh above).
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERSCRAWL SPACE HEATER
Before you buy, look at other options. A crawl space heater may seem like the right solution to cold floors above a crawl space in winter. Heat the crawl space, and HOW DO FLUORESCENT LIGHTS WORK? A fluorescent ballast works around both of these problems. Early ballasts and those on some existing four-foot and eight-foot tube fluorescents were magnetic ballasts; they are bulky devices that provide the initial surge of high voltage current to get the ball rolling, and then slowly reduce the current as conductivity increased. ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES In mid 2008, my wife and I took a year off, and took our kids to Costa Rica. We studied Spanish at a language school, then travelled for a month, ziplining through the cloud forest, watching red-hot rock roll down Volcan Arenal, body surfing in the Pacific. ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS Sealing outside walls: Seal the outside of your basement walls by hiring a waterproofing contractor to dig down to your foundation from outside, and apply a waterproofing compound to the exterior below-ground masonry. They can also fill the dug-out area back in with a combination of gravel and sand to improve drainage. While they’re at it, assuming they can get down below the footings, they CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got ENERGY SAVING WINDOW COVERINGS Roller shades (single flexible sheets that roll down to cover a window – what we used to call ‘a blind’, as opposed to ‘blinds’, when I was a kid) are much more efficient than curtains and many louvered blinds, because they sit very close to the glass, restricting convection currents and thereby reducing heat exchange by up to 28%. DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR If you’re draftproofing a door in a rental house, and don’t want to tamper with the construction of the doorway, or you just want to go the extra mile, you can also stop air leakage from the base of a door with a store-bought draft guard (sometimes, entertainingly, called a draft dodger) or a home-made bean bag – just shove it at the base of the door when you close up for the night.MORE COOLING TOPICS
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. THE INFRARED HEAT GUN Find where the heat’s seeping out of (or into) your house. An infrared heat gun can give you a thorough understanding of where your home is losing heat in winter, or gaining it in summer. A SOLAR LIGHT TUBE PROVIDES NATURAL DAYLIGHT… and can cut your electricity costs. If you have a room that doesn’t get enough direct sunlight through windows, a solar light tube may help you get more natural daylight into the room. BEST WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER Finding the right window AC unit for your home. The best window air conditioner is one that provides the right level of comfort for a given room size, at an affordable total cost (sticker price plus operation) while giving you quiet and durable operation.FREEZER IN GARAGE
Freezers work by extracting heat from the freezer compartment into the space the freezer is located in. If the insulation around a freezer were 100% perfect, the freezer would just exhaust the heat after you closed the lid, and there would be no need to run the compressor again until someone opened the freezer door and let some of the heat backin.
GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Save money, save energy, go green. Energy efficient homes cost much less to heat, cool and light, compared to your typical home. 15 years ago I moved into a leaky, poorly insulated home, and knew I had to make the house more efficient. After some major upgrades and some subtle changes, I cut my household energy use in half. ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
CRAWL SPACE HEATER
Yes, up to a point. Heat from the crawl space will rise into the home. But heat will also escape out poorly insulated crawl space walls, or through any gaps between the walls and the ground, through wall cracks, and through drafts on any windows and doors. So while a crawl space heater may solve the problem of cold living area floors, it GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Save money, save energy, go green. Energy efficient homes cost much less to heat, cool and light, compared to your typical home. 15 years ago I moved into a leaky, poorly insulated home, and knew I had to make the house more efficient. After some major upgrades and some subtle changes, I cut my household energy use in half. ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
CRAWL SPACE HEATER
Yes, up to a point. Heat from the crawl space will rise into the home. But heat will also escape out poorly insulated crawl space walls, or through any gaps between the walls and the ground, through wall cracks, and through drafts on any windows and doors. So while a crawl space heater may solve the problem of cold living area floors, it CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got MORE ENERGY EFFICIENCY QUESTIONS These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS The HE-100 Air to Air Heat Exchanger from Suncourt produces 100 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air exchange between indoors and outdoors, and is suitable for a home of up to 2,000 square feet. (They also make a 150-CFM model for larger homes.) 70 to 80% of the heat is recovered in a typical installation. DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR Draftproofing a door can have almost as much of an impact as installing a new energy efficient front door. If you can feel a lot of cold coming through your front door in winter, a few simple steps can cut both your heating costs in winter and your cooling costs in summer. Why buy a new ENERGY STAR door for $500 or $1500 (along with$300-500
ENERGY SAVING REFRIGERATORS 15-16.9 cubic feet: 480 kwh/year or less. Now suppose you are comparing a 17+ cubic foot fridge, ENERGY STAR logoed, that was rated at 530 kwh/year, with a 16.5 cubic foot fridge rated at 500 kwh per year. The first is ENERGY STAR logoed because it falls below that 536 A SOLAR LIGHT TUBE PROVIDES NATURAL DAYLIGHT… The rooftop portion of a solar light tube is very good at capturing even diffuse, low-level sunlight, so you can have natural daylight all day, from dawn to dusk. Solar light tubes generally have an infrared barrier which allows visible-spectrum light into your home, but not solar heat (infrared radiation). LENNOX AIR CONDITIONERS These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. EXPANDING FOAM INSULATION Answer from Green Energy Efficient Homes. One of the great things about expanding foam insulation is that it provides a very effective vapor barrier. While the R value of expanding foam insulation is typically around R-3.5 to R-4 per inch – not much better than batt insulation – I’ve seen claims backed up by government researchthat foam
FREEZER IN GARAGE
Freezers work by extracting heat from the freezer compartment into the space the freezer is located in. If the insulation around a freezer were 100% perfect, the freezer would just exhaust the heat after you closed the lid, and there would be no need to run the compressor again until someone opened the freezer door and let some of the heat backin.
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These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS The HE-100 Air to Air Heat Exchanger from Suncourt produces 100 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air exchange between indoors and outdoors, and is suitable for a home of up to 2,000 square feet. (They also make a 150-CFM model for larger homes.) 70 to 80% of the heat is recovered in a typical installation. ENERGY SAVING WINDOW COVERINGS Plastic windowinsulation kits. Sealing your windows with plastic from the inside, for example with an energy saving window kit, can cut heat loss by up to 50%. The kit pictured on the left can seal up to 5 windows of 3 x 5 feet each. Other kits come in roll format or for larger windows or even patio doors.MORE COOLING TOPICS
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system.BUY SPACE HEATERS
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR Draftproofing a door can have almost as much of an impact as installing a new energy efficient front door. If you can feel a lot of cold coming through your front door in winter, a few simple steps can cut both your heating costs in winter and your cooling costs in summer. Why buy a new ENERGY STAR door for $500 or $1500 (along with$300-500
FREEZER IN GARAGE
Answer from Green Energy Efficient Homes. Up to a point (or rather, down to a point), a freezer will run more efficiently in a cooler area, because there is less ambient heat to transfer into the freezer interior, and so less work for the compressor to do to remove that heat. However, freezers are designed and built within certaintemperature
AIR CONDITIONER MISTER An air conditioner mister is a very straightforward device. It releases a fine spray of mist around your central air conditioner condenser unit (the outdoor unit) while the compressor fan is running. This fine spray of mist evaporates into water vapor as it moves through the air. As you may have learned in high school physics,evaporation is a
ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I got ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS The HE-100 Air to Air Heat Exchanger from Suncourt produces 100 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air exchange between indoors and outdoors, and is suitable for a home of up to 2,000 square feet. (They also make a 150-CFM model for larger homes.) 70 to 80% of the heat is recovered in a typical installation. ENERGY SAVING WINDOW COVERINGS Plastic windowinsulation kits. Sealing your windows with plastic from the inside, for example with an energy saving window kit, can cut heat loss by up to 50%. The kit pictured on the left can seal up to 5 windows of 3 x 5 feet each. Other kits come in roll format or for larger windows or even patio doors.MORE COOLING TOPICS
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system.BUY SPACE HEATERS
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR Draftproofing a door can have almost as much of an impact as installing a new energy efficient front door. If you can feel a lot of cold coming through your front door in winter, a few simple steps can cut both your heating costs in winter and your cooling costs in summer. Why buy a new ENERGY STAR door for $500 or $1500 (along with$300-500
FREEZER IN GARAGE
Answer from Green Energy Efficient Homes. Up to a point (or rather, down to a point), a freezer will run more efficiently in a cooler area, because there is less ambient heat to transfer into the freezer interior, and so less work for the compressor to do to remove that heat. However, freezers are designed and built within certaintemperature
AIR CONDITIONER MISTER An air conditioner mister is a very straightforward device. It releases a fine spray of mist around your central air conditioner condenser unit (the outdoor unit) while the compressor fan is running. This fine spray of mist evaporates into water vapor as it moves through the air. As you may have learned in high school physics,evaporation is a
ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my Kill ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my Kill CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I gotSAVING ELECTRICITY
First, understand how much electricity you’re using in your house, and specifically for what purposes. Make a list of everything that’s plugged in, measure or estimate its ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS The HE-100 Air to Air Heat Exchanger from Suncourt produces 100 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air exchange between indoors and outdoors, and is suitable for a home of up to 2,000 square feet. (They also make a 150-CFM model for larger homes.) 70 to 80% of the heat is recovered in a typical installation. NEGAWATTS – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Electricity you don’t use. The concept of negawatts was introduced by American environmentalist, author, and energy efficiency expert Amory Lovins, back in 1989. ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. INTERTHERM AIR CONDITIONERS Now let’s compare the sticker price of 3-ton Intertherm air conditioners, estimated at $3,500, with a 3-ton SEER-21 air conditioner, which you can find for around $5,500. That’s a $2,000 price difference. If you live in Michigan that $2,000 will take about 26 years to earn back from the energy savings of the more efficientunit at today’s
LED HOUSE LIGHTS
LED lights for homes are much more efficient than tungsten incandescent lights. It’s not surprising that a lightbulb invented over 100 years ago scores pretty low on the efficiency scale. A typical incandescent bulb converts about 1.8-2.5% of the electrical energy that flows through it into light; the rest gets converted intoheat, halogen
NATURAL GAS ADVANTAGES Heating hot water with natural gas is typically faster than heating with an electric tank heater or electric tankless water heater.This is because in an electric hot water heater, in order to heat water at the same speed as a typical gas water heater, the electric heater would have to draw such a high level of current (in amps) that the demand could overwhelm a typical home power supply, and DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR Draftproofing a door can have almost as much of an impact as installing a new energy efficient front door. If you can feel a lot of cold coming through your front door in winter, a few simple steps can cut both your heating costs in winter and your cooling costs in summer. Why buy a new ENERGY STAR door for $500 or $1500 (along with$300-500
LENNOX AIR CONDITIONERS These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my Kill ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my Kill CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I gotSAVING ELECTRICITY
First, understand how much electricity you’re using in your house, and specifically for what purposes. Make a list of everything that’s plugged in, measure or estimate its ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS The HE-100 Air to Air Heat Exchanger from Suncourt produces 100 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air exchange between indoors and outdoors, and is suitable for a home of up to 2,000 square feet. (They also make a 150-CFM model for larger homes.) 70 to 80% of the heat is recovered in a typical installation. NEGAWATTS – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Electricity you don’t use. The concept of negawatts was introduced by American environmentalist, author, and energy efficiency expert Amory Lovins, back in 1989. ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. INTERTHERM AIR CONDITIONERS Now let’s compare the sticker price of 3-ton Intertherm air conditioners, estimated at $3,500, with a 3-ton SEER-21 air conditioner, which you can find for around $5,500. That’s a $2,000 price difference. If you live in Michigan that $2,000 will take about 26 years to earn back from the energy savings of the more efficientunit at today’s
LED HOUSE LIGHTS
LED lights for homes are much more efficient than tungsten incandescent lights. It’s not surprising that a lightbulb invented over 100 years ago scores pretty low on the efficiency scale. A typical incandescent bulb converts about 1.8-2.5% of the electrical energy that flows through it into light; the rest gets converted intoheat, halogen
NATURAL GAS ADVANTAGES Heating hot water with natural gas is typically faster than heating with an electric tank heater or electric tankless water heater.This is because in an electric hot water heater, in order to heat water at the same speed as a typical gas water heater, the electric heater would have to draw such a high level of current (in amps) that the demand could overwhelm a typical home power supply, and DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR Draftproofing a door can have almost as much of an impact as installing a new energy efficient front door. If you can feel a lot of cold coming through your front door in winter, a few simple steps can cut both your heating costs in winter and your cooling costs in summer. Why buy a new ENERGY STAR door for $500 or $1500 (along with$300-500
LENNOX AIR CONDITIONERS These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my Kill ABOUT ME – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES About me – Green Energy Efficient Homes. Hi. My name is Robin Green, and you might think my name is no accident. I’ve been a ‘greenie’ since my teens, when I helped run a recycling drive in my Toronto neighborhood, and put up homemade windmills in my back yard. I’m also an extreme do it yourselfer. ENERGY EFFICIENT TOASTER My advice to you in finding an energy efficient toaster is to look for a quality toaster with minimal bells and whistles. If you have bad toaster karma, as I do (two broken toasters in the last six months), you are better off looking for a very reliable toaster rather than the one that uses the least energy. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE ELECTRICITY USE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR The average electricity consumption of a US family of four is in the neighborhood of 50 kWh per day, or 1,500 kWh per month. Similar figures apply for Canada. Assuming an average electricity cost of $0.12 per kWh, that translates into about $6 per day for electricity, or $180 per month. Here’s how I calculated these figures: That’sthe
DOES LEAVING THINGS PLUGGED IN WASTE ELECTRICITY? In some situations it’s obvious whether leaving something plugged in is wasteful. A simple table lamp that is left plugged in doesn’t waste electricity when the switch is turned off. An electronic device with an LED or other lit-up display is indeed using a tiny bit of electricity to power that display, and sometimes that also meansit’s
ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. DRYING CLOTHES AT LOW HEAT Take the clothes out of the dryer while still damp, and hang them up inside on a laundry rack or line. Use an energy efficient dryer vent. A lot of cold air can come through your dryer vent. An energy efficient dryer vent costs as little as $20 and can pay for itself in energy savings in a couple of months. For help finding an efficientclothes
LED UNDER CABINET LIGHTS Our LED under cabinet lights, in cotrast, use a mere 2 watts each – one tenth the power consumption of Xenon lights or other halogen puck lights – and cost us under $2 a year to run. Power consumption shows 4 watts for two LED puck lights – a trickle! I even measured the power consumption of LED under cabinet lights just now, with my Kill CONTACT GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Before you contact us Hi, I’m Robin Green, the owner of Green Energy Efficient Homes. Thanks for visiting. For general energy efficiency questions, please see my Home energy efficiency questions page, where I provide several ways for you to find the answer you’re looking for, as well as a free ‘Ask a question’ service.. In the past, about 95% of the ‘Contact’ requests I gotSAVING ELECTRICITY
First, understand how much electricity you’re using in your house, and specifically for what purposes. Make a list of everything that’s plugged in, measure or estimate its ENERGY EFFICIENT DEHUMIDIFIERS The HE-100 Air to Air Heat Exchanger from Suncourt produces 100 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air exchange between indoors and outdoors, and is suitable for a home of up to 2,000 square feet. (They also make a 150-CFM model for larger homes.) 70 to 80% of the heat is recovered in a typical installation. NEGAWATTS – GREEN ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES Electricity you don’t use. The concept of negawatts was introduced by American environmentalist, author, and energy efficiency expert Amory Lovins, back in 1989. ENERGY SAVING GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING As mentioned in How does geothermal energy work, in a geothermal heating and cooling system, heat is exchanged between a living area such as a house, and the nearly-constant ground temperature several feet, or several hundred feet, below the surface, using a geothermal heat pump.. Energy saving geothermal heat pumps can operate on a single or double loop system. INTERTHERM AIR CONDITIONERS Now let’s compare the sticker price of 3-ton Intertherm air conditioners, estimated at $3,500, with a 3-ton SEER-21 air conditioner, which you can find for around $5,500. That’s a $2,000 price difference. If you live in Michigan that $2,000 will take about 26 years to earn back from the energy savings of the more efficientunit at today’s
LED HOUSE LIGHTS
LED lights for homes are much more efficient than tungsten incandescent lights. It’s not surprising that a lightbulb invented over 100 years ago scores pretty low on the efficiency scale. A typical incandescent bulb converts about 1.8-2.5% of the electrical energy that flows through it into light; the rest gets converted intoheat, halogen
NATURAL GAS ADVANTAGES Heating hot water with natural gas is typically faster than heating with an electric tank heater or electric tankless water heater.This is because in an electric hot water heater, in order to heat water at the same speed as a typical gas water heater, the electric heater would have to draw such a high level of current (in amps) that the demand could overwhelm a typical home power supply, and DRAFTPROOFING A DOOR Draftproofing a door can have almost as much of an impact as installing a new energy efficient front door. If you can feel a lot of cold coming through your front door in winter, a few simple steps can cut both your heating costs in winter and your cooling costs in summer. Why buy a new ENERGY STAR door for $500 or $1500 (along with$300-500
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Bedroom gut and reinsulate Green Energy Efficient Homes Energy efficient homes cost much less to heat, cool and light, compared to your typical home. 15 years ago I moved into a leaky, poorly insulated home, and knew I had to make the house more efficient. After some major upgrades and some subtle changes, I cut my household energy use in half. Sure, we did a few major upgrades along the way – new furnace, new windows, bedroom upgrades. But smaller things helped too – things as simple as understanding where our energy budget was being spent so we could cut out the big wasters. This site is my way to share my knowledge about energy efficiency. I’ll show you how to save energy and money, and still livecomfortably.
Over many years of energy efficient home upgrades, I’ve learned that a systematic approach works best. Start by carefully studying your energy use, to find waste. Then focus your savings on what gives the highest return on investment. Only after you know where the savings are, should you start looking at efficiency upgrades. By the way, avoid gimmicks like rubber dryer balls that claim to save energy, or devices that attach to your power supply and promise huge electricity bill decreases. I not only don’t push such products on my site, I go out of my way to expose them. Chances are you already have some idea of where you want to save. You can check out my sections on heatingand cooling
– those are probably the two areas where the most savings are to be had for relatively low cost. If you’re thinking of doing a home reno, or just upgrading things like your insulation or windows or exterior doors, go to my upgrades section where you’ll find many home reno efficiency projects discussed. Check the menus along the top for other main sections; there are over 150 pages on this site so there’s no shortage of energy savings to be had. If you’re really not sure where to start, I suggest my home energy saving information section. You might want to start with the page in there on creating your own energysaving plan .
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