03-29-2009, 09:06 PM
davester wrote:
Actually, if your house is typical and you haven't done any electricity conservation measures before, reducing your electrical use by half is relatively easy and involves no real sacrifices, just a few thought processes (sadly lacking in too many). Before putting the solar array on our roof (which generates about 90% of our electricity), we went through the house and looked at all the consumption and realized that there was a lot of waste that didn't result in any benefit at all to us. As Steve Chu (the new Nobel Prize winner Secretary of Energy notes, conservation is like the fruit lying on the ground. Virtually no effort for few gains. A few reconfigurations, a few purchases and we slashed our home use by more than half. That saved us a bunch when we moved to solar too.
I am puzzled by the defeatist rantings of people like tron and dakota. It's as though they are hoping that ill will come to our country just so they'll be able to justify their hatred of "libruls".
OK, show me how "reducing your electrical use by half is relatively easy and involves no real sacrifices". I'll be stupid not do it but I want specifics.