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Solar Water-Heating Basics
How to Heat Your Water with the Sun Edited by Barry Butler, Liz Merry and Diana Young In most parts of North America, the best bang for your solar energy buck is with domestic solar water heating...
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Energy-Efficiency Basics
In slashing utility bills, the best bang for your buck comes with energy-efficiency measures. It’s cheaper to save energy than to make energy. If you want to offset $100 a month in utility bills, the...
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Ground-Source Heating and Cooling Basics
Copyright Kurt Struve Ground-source heat-pump (GSHP) heating and cooling, often called a geo-exchange or geothermal system, is an efficient way to keep a house comfortable. The Environmental...
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Wind System Basics
By Mick Sagrillo It seems that everyone is interested in wind turbines, an intriguing technology that converts the kinetic energy in the moving wind to useful electricity. Let’s look at the steps...
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Financing: Does it Pay?
Figuring the financial value of a solar or wind energy system. By Andy Black How long will it take for a new solar or wind electric system to pay for itself? That depends on your local climate,...
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Working With a Solar Contractor
FindSolar.com lists thousands of solar installers across North America. It’s easy to narrow the list down to four or five names located near your zip code, and then call them up for estimates. Or, look...
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