Posts belonging to Category 'energy conservation'
August 24, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
One of the tips for staying cool and conserving energy is to limit air conditioning to a single room by using a window unit. This is what our family did when I was a kid, and I’ve done this a few times over the last 20 years. Ever since I moved to my better insulated [...]
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Tags: beat the heat, keeping cool, self reliance, tips for staying cool, window air conditioner | 
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July 25, 2010 | Posted by Annie Jean
How to cook perfect rice without a rice cooker using a minimum of energy and effort in the process.
Categories: cooking and recipes, energy conservation | Tags: cooking, cooking rice, perfect rice, save energy, self reliance | 3 Comments »
July 24, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
This might not be the most desirable nor practicable of the tips for staying cool, but it certainly is very effective – hop into a cold shower to cool off. Okay, perhaps only a cool shower, but you get the idea – when your entire body is drenched in cool water, you can’t help but [...]
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July 20, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
One of the classic tips for staying cool is to use a fan to blow air around inside the house. It works well to make the indoors feel cooler as you make use of the natural evaporative cooling of your body. Nevertheless, this approach doesn’t cool the house, it only makes you feel cooler. When [...]
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July 17, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
Of all the tips for staying cool, evaporative cooling has to be one of the oldest and most reliable there is. Before electricity brought us fans and air conditioning (and electric bills), how did folks stay comfortable in hot weather? Sometimes they fanned themselves, and sometimes they put on their long johns, soaked themselves in [...]
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July 15, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
Here are two tips to help you save propane when you use a gas grill. If you’re saving propane, then you’re practicing energy conservation and saving money as well. First, let the grill “coast” by shutting it down before cooking is completed. With lava rocks or ceramic briquettes on the bottom of the grill near [...]
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June 24, 2010 | Posted by Glory Lennon
One of the best tips for staying cool in summer is, plant trees around your home, several of them. There is simply no easier, cheaper and more environmentally friendly way to keep yourself, your family and your home cool in summer. You can pick up any old tree at your local nursery, plant it and [...]
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June 14, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
Driving in the rain reduces fuel efficiency because increased drag gives you fewer miles per gallon. Here’s how it works: Water on the road interferes with free rolling of your tires. It’s something that your tires have to push through. It’s something on the surface of the road that pulls against your tires as well. [...]
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June 7, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
I’m back with another in a series of tips for staying cool. This time it involves using your furnace system to recirculate basement air to the upstairs areas. Essentially you’re using the basement as a huge heat sink. It’s a type of ground source cooling, except that you’re making use of the basement as your [...]
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June 5, 2010 | Posted by Clair Schwan
With summer upon us, many are seeking tips for staying cool without spending a fortune. I have some ideas for you. Let’s look at the old standby of using a fan. It’s a simple and inexpensive means of staying cool. Moving air feels cooler to us because it enhances the natural evaporative cooling of our [...]
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