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Originally posted by Spanky
What I am curious about is whether he has taken the steps that my parents took in the 1970s when this issue first came in vogue. 1) Solar Panels 2) Full insulation of the entire house 3) Double paned windows 4) a regrigerator with the engine on the top - most refrigerators use eighty percent of their energy cooling the heat from their own engine 5) atmoshpere sealed environment 6) no use of a clothes dryer 7) no use of a automatic dishwasher etc. etc. etc.
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FWIW, I looked into getting solar panels installed in my house (I'm sick of paying $300 monthly electric bills for a 1050 square foot house, it doesn't surprise me in the least that a larger house (with more heating costs in the winter) costs more to maintain). It's not cheap.
Between $35,000 and $50,000 since I don't live in California or New Jersey or New York or Austin. The calculator says that I live in a place with good sunlight too.
Still, it's pretty cool, and I assume eventually Houston will get with the program. In the meantime, I'll pay more to
Green Mountain Energy than I would to Reliant Energy and feel slightly better that my power is sort of wind generated.
And Yay! to the private investors that killed the coal burning energy plants that TXU was going to build.
