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So now, as a boat/home owner I have a choice. Do I spend a fair amount of money on the solar solution and make my bill mostly go away or do I invest say, 25% as much and correct the cause of my electric bills at the source by plugging the leaks ? Same outcome - a floating home. Which solution gives the most bang for the buck with the fewest imposed lifestyle changes/disruptions ?
Most of the talk/step one attitude about conservation often comes from some of us who have thought about, and been around the energy conservation vs. solar thing for awhile, think we may know a bit about it, and see it as reduced demand vs. increased supply situation. Some of us consider it a matter of some common sense in that it's cheaper to reduce the need for a product than pay for more of it. As an added bonus for tree huggers, it's probably a more benign fix for the planet as well.
It may be that solar is the latest way to get in sheeple's pockets because conservation isn't quite as simple as throwing solar at a self imposed high electric bill.
Conservation usually gets a bigger bang for the buck, but also and usually does take some involvement.
Pay your money, take your choice, and live with the consequences.
Take what you want of the above. Scrap the rest.Comment
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A friend sent me this thermal image of a idling power strip.
Get it?
Clean up the waste first.... solar second....
I recently put as many power strips on timers as I could.
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Those colors are pretty, but without a scale, hard to tell if they are just barely above room temp or burning a lot of power....we had one of those thermal camera's for testing out thermal flows on our cellular products... but calibrating and documenting the scale is just as important.
also guessing those chargers are older and burning energy... there are new rules for chargers in CA that should help out a lot... they came out a few years ago so make sure your new chargers have the CEC (BC) logo. It was a bit of a pain to upgrade all of the charger designs we were using at the company I used to work for, but really no cost adder (makes you wonder why it was not done previously).
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Originally posted by AlisobobA friend sent me this thermal image of a idling power strip. Get it?
Clean up the waste first.... solar second....
I recently put as many power strips on timers as I could.
energy, likely even when the load is turned off. I found that sort of stuff was costing 2600 KWH
a year here; went on a conservation campaign which isn't finished yet. Since it really is waste,
there is usually a way to drastically reduce it (factor of 10 considered adequate here) without
losing any services. Bruce RoeComment
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Congrats
Just bought a new home in Winchester, would you mind PMing me the company you selected for your install?
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March kicked ass! Thank you Sun!!
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BTW, my 7.1kW SW245 only produced 1.056MWh. Starting April, I think the result will be much better all the way throughout Summer.Comment
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My "Peak Power" in Jan was 4.18 KW's. In Feb is was 5.29 Kw's. In March is was 5.33... hopefully it will creep up some more.Comment
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and, to some extent, f(temp).Last edited by sensij; 04-02-2015, 01:59 AM. Reason: I should have kept my vow to stay away from this thread. Not a good place for pursuit of knowledge.CS6P-260P/SE3000 - http://tiny.cc/ed5ozxComment
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Anyone who is bored with my little updates is more than welcome to never return or comment again.
I would hate to feel , that I ruined the inna' net for you.Comment
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