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Habit Places: Let's face it, we're set in our ways and this is the fast food, mega store generation. To accommodate our modern life style of convenience, it has become natural to run the dishwasher half full, operate the maytag with just the shirt we need, hang another big screen TV on the wall, leave the desktop and monitor on 24/7 and take a shower under a nozzle that could cut a gulley in the

OK, we all understand that solar energy is good clean desirable power. Solar energy looks mighty good if you compare it to the smoke stack on a coal fired electrical plant or the fish ladder on a hydroelectric dam. So, what's keeping us from using solar panels to generate our homes electrical needs? Why, it's George Lopez! No, wait, make that George Washington. Here is the basic financial breakdown of a residential solar installation that would produce 2,000 kill-o-watts of electricity per

Home builder to energy auditor, my name is Don Ames and I am your Energy Spy Host. Starting in the home building industry as a framer was a good way to get the background needed for a foundation on residential energy. During most of the early 1990's, I was a builder that went to work each day with a nail apron around my

How long will it be before the LED light bulbs take over for compact fluorescent bulbs. So far, the cost of LED is too high to compete. Price will come down and then the efficient bulbs will be ours.

Duct cleaning adventures and riding herd on a stray pop can. We get the pop can out of the duct or we don't go home.