SunRunHome.com has information on solar powering your home. This includes a quote for your community, how it works, and how to convert your home to solar power.
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SunRunHome.com has information on solar powering your home. This includes a quote for your community, how it works, and how to convert your home to solar power.
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Some people can increase the energy efficiency of their home through landscaping. You can carefully position your trees to lower the impacts of the sun on your house in the summer, lower the effect of the wind on your house in the winter, and decrease noise and light pollution.
WebMD has an article on improving indoor air quality. Having good air quality can help increase the healthiness of people with Asthma, and also help prevent some diseases that arise from bad quality.
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You can find out information about solar power at solarpowerathome.com. They show the advantages and disadvantages , how it works, and solar powered boats, laptops, and more.
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Consumerenergycenter.org has a section on energy efficient appliances. They give tips on buying dishwashers, microwaves, stoves, and other appliances.
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Before buying a solar powered electrical system, there are a few things you should know. Here are 10 tips for solar power.
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With weather getting warmer, most people will start running their air conditioner within the next 2 months. Using the air conditioner accounts for 5% of the electricity produced each year. You can reduce the energy consumed by the air conditioner by reading this handy guide. It will reduce the electric bill during the summer, and it will also help the environment.
If you live in an area that gets sun often, you might want to consider switching to solar power. Solar power will never cost you anything once it’s installed, because it’s from the sun directly to your home, it’s environmentally friendly, and if the price of oil skyrockets again, you can laugh at everyone who is paying for energy while you sit there and let the sun do all of the work for you. (The sun won’t suddenly decide to charge you more for the energy.) EEsolar.com sells and installs solar panels for your home. The problem with solar power, no sun at night and on cloudy days, can easily be solved by a battery system. It will cost more, but it will store power during a sunny day for nights and cloudy days.
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You can build your own solar oven with Path to Freedom’s guide. The solar oven uses only the sun’s power, so if it’s a sunny day and you don’t want to cook inside, its a good free alternative. You can build it yourself, it’s not something you buy for a few hundred dollars.
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This government site has a guide to designing your home to be energy efficient.
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