Archive for July, 2010

More and more homebuyers are forgoing the conventional factors in home buying convenient location, luxurious spaciousness, modern design for the one that actually matters: energy efficiency. Thats right, real estate trends show that a houses long term heating and cooling capabilities vis–vis cost effectiveness make or break house sales in many parts of the US.
This is how contractors like Enertia Building System managed to expand their businesses by building homes that virtually makes paying power bills a thing of [...]

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Wind turbine, also called wind power generator, was designed as far back as post-World War I and has continued to receive improvements up until this day. And the wind industry has grown since then, as evidenced by the establishment of several wind-generating companies and the introduction of retail wind turbines. But because these commercial wind turbines are costly, the average being $4000, a lot of households opted to set up home made wind turbines instead. The good thing about home [...]

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Looking for an alternative and cheap source of energy for your home? You may want to consider having your own solar power system. Solar energy can power common appliances and equipment in the household such as lights, computers, and dishwashers.
How does solar power work? In residential areas, one of the most common types of solar power system is the photovoltaic or solar panel that is installed on rooftops to capture and store sunlight at daytime. The solar panel then [...]

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The sun radiates more than 10,000 times the energy the world needs annually. Being so, it is a powerful and efficient substitute to the fossil fuels people need for making electricity. However, this glaring truth has been overlooked for so many years, and it is only now that it is given a second look. Part of the reason is that people, governments most especially, failed to look at the energy potentials of the sun. Solar power system, if given more [...]

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A square meter on earth receives approximately 1,000 watts of energy from the sun on an average sunny day. This inspired scientists and engineers the world over to design cheaper ways to harness this inexhaustible and free energy.
Given the looming fossil fuel shortage, as well as current initiatives on going green, countries like the United Kingdom and the United States have taken pioneering steps to encourage households to use alternative sources of energy. Solar power is one of the [...]

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