[pvusers] green business

["Dan Metcalf" <dan@metcalfs.com>]

> From: "Purcell, Mike" <mpurcell@idwr.state.id.us>
> Subject: green business
>
> With all the banter about how efficiency does or does not pay, I went
> looking for and found a document put out by the Rocky Mountain Institute
> about it. I think if you read even a few examples in the study, you will
be
> convinced it can pay bigtime, even with the more difficult to measure
> qualities. Some of the improvements resulted in paybacks of less than 3
> months.
>
> The name of the document is "Greening the Building and the Bottom Line."
> http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid174.php

A few years back we were using 10+kWh average every day even while trying to
follow standard conservation rules for a household of 2.  After reading Home
Power magazine for a while I learned that I could easily do more.  Changing
lighting and lighting habits easily got us down to 5~6 kWh average per day.
Then tracking down phantom loads removed another 2kWh every day.  We've
since reduced loads even further, but also added the home Internet server
bringing us back to 3.5kWh per day average.

Not only does efficiency pay for itself, but it can give you a great feeling
of accomplishment.  If you're looking to solar power your home you'll find
your goal that much closer too.

Dan Metcalf
dan@metcalfs.com
My solar powered web site: http://www.metcalfs.com


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