I'm encouraged by the type of work that the DOE is doing nowadays. I thought some here would find it interesting.
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/enn.cfm
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/enn.cfm
Good stuff going on at the Dept. of Energy
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Looks good. What I'd like to see is some sort of low-cost "home energy audit" program. I think that would do more good than just about anything. Most people have no idea what to do or how to go about it.
precaud said:
That was one of the focuses of the Home Star bill, referred to in media land as Cash for Caulkers. One stream of the program would have used a baseline audit and an after audit to determine energy savings acheived from the work done by a homeowner, then credited them X dollars for X % savings.
Semipro said:
Some good stuff. I'm not elated with the $ ammounts on some of those announcements, but as they say, a few tens of millions here, few tens of millions there, pretty soon your talking about some real money.
precaud said:
Good point. I'm getting ready to pay someone $300 for this but in includes an infiltration test and thermal scan. I think some energy providers will do a basic audit for free.
I'd bet that in 90% of the cases someone with some knowledge and experience could prescribe ways to address the biggest 75% of common offenders (infiltration, lack of insulation, inefficiencies).
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