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Making Your Home Solar Powered

May 23, 2008 – 5:57 am

By : Brennan Howe
Many Americans have decided to become more energy independent, and want to play a part in avoiding a very foreseeable energy crisis. They’ve decided to go solar. Creating a solar powered home is an endeavor that requires an initial investment, but the costs are being lowered everyday. Solar power provides long term [...]

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Being Passive is a Good Thing

April 24, 2008 – 7:50 am

Using Passive Solar enrgy os a great way to design a new home or use in a remodeling project.  If you have no plans for doing any major remodeling or building a new home you can still use the passive approach to help heat and cool your home. 
Though using passive techniques in an exhisting home [...]

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Changings Windows Offers Great Benefits

February 13, 2008 – 11:05 pm

In most old homes windows are one of the largest sources of heating during the winter do to their low insulating ability combined with high air leakage.  During the summer they are also a major source of additional unwanted heat. This results in windows being typically net energy loser, that can be responsible for 25% [...]

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Enertia- Natural Materials, Natural Energy Homes

February 2, 2008 – 2:07 pm

Anything massive, once warmed, tends to stay warm.  The Earth maintains a habitatable environment in the minus 459 degree cold of space because our atmosphere allows the planet to capture, distribute, and store energy from the Sun. The atmosphere, like the glass skin of a greenhouse, contains this energy, and thermal currents - the wind, [...]

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