Deb

Deb

Gary of “Build it Solar” has this up on his blog.

http://www.builditsolar.com/Experimental/RidgeVentHeater.htm

Gary of “Build it Solar” has this up on his blog.

http://www.builditsolar.com/Experimental/RidgeVentHeater.htm

I was ignorant then.

Now I know we are safe in an earthquake. But even more I really appreciate our MUCH lower energy bills. We have saved more than we spent, by a long shot. I can see how it is that California has a carbon footprint like Europe, half that of the average US state – its the building codes!

Themally yours

Lee,

Themally yours

Lee,

I was ignorant then.

Now I know we are safe in an earthquake. But even more I really appreciate our MUCH lower energy bills. We have saved more than we spent, by a long shot. I can see how it is that California has a carbon footprint like Europe, half that of the average US state – its the building codes!

Relax, nobody needs to be forced to do anything green really. If you like to use more energy than necessary to do the same job, I am sure you can afford it.

A far better way is to get some of the needless restrictions of building codes off our backs at least for those of us that want to move on and know how to do most of the project work. If I could, I would do both the solar thermal and the PV mostly myself with a little help although the north east climate limits us some. I get darned irritated when told I shouldn’t have done this or that on my own house, the codes seem to protect the contractor and labor union interests.

Now if I was getting my water preheated and electricity costs driven far down, a lot of neighbors in very similar homes might want to follow the same path. Wouldn’t you want to save some $ if it made sense? I’m always checking out other folks projects too to see whats worth doing.

Right now the gov plan to do up homes doesn’t help me any, it helps the contractors and Joe the plumber do it for me but I don’t want to pay for that. I want to put my sweat equity into that and keep most of the savings for family and help others in return.

And besides, you are completely wrong about CO2, it is a green house gas as is water vapor and methane and many others, but the devil is in the details. You can read up on it instead of parroting those Fox News idiots like Beck and Hannity, who have never done any research themselves but just spin out the same old lies fed to them by the oil interests. Yes the oil interests really do spends lots of money putting out disinformation through the same channels the tobacco companies used. Some of the denier people also worked on the tobacco PR.

By the way, you do know that without any greenhouse warming, this planet would be stone cold, all the ground heat would escape back into space. The CO2 at about 280ppm has served us well for eons, keeping the greenhouse warming to about the right level. Doubling the CO2 to >500ppm as will eventually happen will much increase the warming, just as reducing it below 280ppm would cool it. Personally I would rather the environment stay about the same as when I was born 50 years ago.

Relax, nobody needs to be forced to do anything green really. If you like to use more energy than necessary to do the same job, I am sure you can afford it.

A far better way is to get some of the needless restrictions of building codes off our backs at least for those of us that want to move on and know how to do most of the project work. If I could, I would do both the solar thermal and the PV mostly myself with a little help although the north east climate limits us some. I get darned irritated when told I shouldn’t have done this or that on my own house, the codes seem to protect the contractor and labor union interests.

Now if I was getting my water preheated and electricity costs driven far down, a lot of neighbors in very similar homes might want to follow the same path. Wouldn’t you want to save some $ if it made sense? I’m always checking out other folks projects too to see whats worth doing.

Right now the gov plan to do up homes doesn’t help me any, it helps the contractors and Joe the plumber do it for me but I don’t want to pay for that. I want to put my sweat equity into that and keep most of the savings for family and help others in return.

And besides, you are completely wrong about CO2, it is a green house gas as is water vapor and methane and many others, but the devil is in the details. You can read up on it instead of parroting those Fox News idiots like Beck and Hannity, who have never done any research themselves but just spin out the same old lies fed to them by the oil interests. Yes the oil interests really do spends lots of money putting out disinformation through the same channels the tobacco companies used. Some of the denier people also worked on the tobacco PR.

By the way, you do know that without any greenhouse warming, this planet would be stone cold, all the ground heat would escape back into space. The CO2 at about 280ppm has served us well for eons, keeping the greenhouse warming to about the right level. Doubling the CO2 to >500ppm as will eventually happen will much increase the warming, just as reducing it below 280ppm would cool it. Personally I would rather the environment stay about the same as when I was born 50 years ago.

How much do you get paid to troll the web to write that stuff? OK forget about CO2 levels for a moment how about making everyone do it so that our sons and daughters don’t have to get maimed fighting in some wasteland to defend our oil supplies? The reasons for being efficient are to save money, increase distributed power, reduce the level of toxins in the environment, reduce our dependency of foreign oil and reduce CO2. Stop trying to force everyone to your level of ignorance. Don’t Palin us!

How much do you get paid to troll the web to write that stuff? OK forget about CO2 levels for a moment how about making everyone do it so that our sons and daughters don’t have to get maimed fighting in some wasteland to defend our oil supplies? The reasons for being efficient are to save money, increase distributed power, reduce the level of toxins in the environment, reduce our dependency of foreign oil and reduce CO2. Stop trying to force everyone to your level of ignorance. Don’t Palin us!

Unfortunately, here in Minnesota it doesn’t. For about eight months a year we have improper weather conditions for solar heating and power.

Wind power, on the other hand, is almost constantly available. A windmill on every rooftop would be far more productive.

Unfortunately, here in Minnesota it doesn’t. For about eight months a year we have improper weather conditions for solar heating and power.

Wind power, on the other hand, is almost constantly available. A windmill on every rooftop would be far more productive.