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 culprit is the [...]
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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 [...] Now that winter is approaching, I started to keep track of the Heating Degree Days (HDD) for this year. I like keep track of such things because that is my nature. One thing that is always interesting to me is the ratio of HDD to Gallons of oil burned to heat the house. This is [...] I saw a great post over at The ConstructionDeal.com about Construction and Demolition Debris. When a remodeling project is in full swing, it is likely that the last question on anybody After moving in, my first project was re-configuring and re-connecting our hydronic (baseboard hot water) heating system. During the renovation, much of the existing base board radiators had to be removed to replace floors. A new Dunkirk oil-fired furnace was installed in 1997. It is 85.2 percent efficient and has an output of 105 MBTU. [...] |
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