I posted about this once before. The US EPA has a web site called “How clean is the electricity I use,” complete with a place to fill in your zip code and find out.
We pay a lot for electric, it peaked at ¢17.8 per kWh last summer, now down to ¢12.5/kWh. As it turns out, [...]
We have sort of hit a wall this year. Looking back on it, almost nothing happened that was supposed to. First off, we sort of ran out of funds and time. What with the $4.87 per gallon gas this summer, expenses from my children, the ever increasing cost of health care, and all the time [...]
I thought that this is especially apropos for a home renovation blog. According to the Nation Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) each year fires that start in electrical systems or lighting equipment
damage more than 24, 000 homes
kill 320 people
injure 830 more
In older buildings and houses electrical wiring that was properly installed according to the art [...]
This has been an interesting experiment. I discovered that my standby (sometimes called “phantom”) loads are about ten percent of my annual electric usage. I thought I was doing pretty good at keeping this under control, but it looks like I will need to buy some more switched outlet strips. The biggest [...]
I received this Kill-A-Watt EZ meter a while ago, but never really played around with it that much. Today, I decided to check a few things out and see how much money it is costing me to, for example, keep the TV in standby mode for a day.
I pick on the TV because I [...]
The Homeowners blog is my story about fixing up a run down ranch house located in the southeastern Catskill Mountains of New York State.
I cover many do-it-yourself projects, tackle some projects that should be left to the pros, touch on subjects like renewable energy, self sufficiency, raising two children and so on. For a full disclosure, visit the about the author page.
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