Sears a Modern Home of the past
1908 was a heady year for technology. With this stroke of genius, the Sears & Roebuck Kit Homes were born History of Sears Modern Homes The hour has arrived. Dad…
How Green are Electric Cars
How ‘GREEN’ are electric cars? The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030, 125 million electric vehicles will be owned around the world and the UK government aims for almost…
Large Home Packages
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History of Solar
April 25, 1954: Bell Labs Demonstrates the First Practical Silicon Solar Cell Solar cells, which convert sunlight into electrical current, had their beginnings more than a hundred years ago, though…
$3 Gasoline Coming Soon
The biggest gasoline draw since 1990 amid refinery shutdowns due to the Texas Freeze could push up the U.S. national average gasoline price to $3 a gallon for the first…
Texas’ largest Electric Co-op files bankruptcy
Texas’ largest power cooperative filed for bankruptcy protection in federal court in Houston on Monday, March 1, citing a disputed $ 1.8 billion debt to the state’s grid operator.Court documents show…
How Does a Heat Pump Work
A heat pump is a type of HVAC system that uses a heat exchange process to both heat and cool your home. The name might take some getting used to,…
Renewables are INSANITY
Texas frozen wind power – outages ensue, electricity now at unheard of $9000 per megawatt-hour. There’s a saying in the lone star state “Don’t Mess with Texas” which actually started…
Deep Freeze and Wind Energy
Frozen wind turbines hamper Texas power outputNearly half of Texas' installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators. Wind farms…
Big Freeze in TX
Turbines Freeze Up in Texas Cold Snap – Shutting Down Nearly Half of the Wind Energy in West Texas A winter storm is causing chaos in Texas. Power outages were initiated…
“CLEAN” energy to charge electric cars comes from COAL
(GM) spokesperson Kristin Zimmerman has become something of an internet sensation for letting the cat out of the bag that “electric” cars actually run on about 95 percent coal. During…
Fossil Fuels Isn’t Going Anywhere
“There is no scenario where hydrocarbons disappear,” the chief executive of Baker Hughes. He also noted that a 100-percent renewable energy scenario was simply not possible. There is plenty of…
50 Energy Facts
Facts on the U.S. Energy Industry1. The energy market in the United States is the third largest industry in the country.2. Energy use in America is doubling every 20 years.3. In 2014, the…
Duct Work – Fundamentals
Ductwork is a fundamental aspect of heating and cooling systems. These conduits are necessary in homes with any type of forced-air heating or central air conditioning.Often unseen, ducts are easily…
Baghdad’s batteries
Baghdad Battery or Parthian Battery A set of three artifacts were found together: a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron. It was discovered in modern…
Germany’s Green New Deal Debacle
Renewable zealots tout Germany as the benchmark for the inevitable transition to wind and solar, but its energy system is a complete debacle. Germany’s so-called Energiewende (energy transition) has turned…
Electromagnetic absorption by water
Electromagnetic absorption by water The absorption of electromagnetic radiation by water depends on the state of the water. The absorption in the gas phase occurs in three regions of the spectrum. Rotational transitions are responsible for absorption in…
Illinois’ legislative lockdown will leave solar industry waiting until 2021
As surging coronavirus cases prompt leaders to cancel a November legislative session, solar developers and advocates fear irreparable harm to the industry. Hopes for new Illinois energy legislation this year…
Building Of A Fusion Power Plant
US Physicists Urge The Building Of A Fusion Power Plant Written by Adrian ChoU.S. fusion scientists, notorious for squabbling over which projects to fund with their field’s limited budget, have…
Ohio wants to ban Solar & Wind
The bill’s sponsors voted last year to gut state clean energy standards while subsidizing nuclear and coal bailouts. An Ohio bill introduced last month would halt most large solar or…
Green Prince of Darkness
Green Prince Of Darkness…. Exposed Today's Guest, November 28, 2020About the author: Joseph A Olson, PE: Co-founder of Principia Scientific Intl. and co-author of the ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon –…
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EV Battery Metals
EV Boom Is Sending Battery Metals Into The Stratosphere The MINING.COM EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs (including hybrids) around the…
Energy-Efficient Window Guide
Guide to Energy-Efficient Windows Replacing your home’s windows with ENERGY STAR® qualified windows will improve indoor comfort and filter out damaging ultraviolet light, while potentially saving you hundreds of dollars…
Shell To Shut Down Louisiana Refinery
Royal Dutch Shell will shut down its Convent refinery in Louisiana after failing to find a buyer for the facility, stated by the company. The move, due to be completed…
Lost Transmission
How Much Electricity Disappears Between A Power Plant And Your Plug? https://youtu.be/PNh6PO3aM4s To find the answer, we need to break it out step by step: first turning raw materials into…
Discrediting Human Attribution In Global Warming
The forcing uncertainties and lack of observational measurements in the top-to-bottom global ocean preclude an assessment that modern warmth is due to anthropogenic activities.Key points from a new paper (Gebbie,…
Mystery Flaw Of Solar Panels
‘Real Engineering’ video describes the inherent but unreported flaw of solar panels – they degrade in efficiency as soon as the leave the factory. At the outset, a typical solar…
History of Electricity
Affordable, reliable electricity is fundamental to modern life. Electricity provides clean, safe light around the clock, it cools our homes on hot summer days (and heats many of them in…
Emerging Technology in Electricity
Could these technologies power the world of tomorrow? Since the dawn of the industrial age, the world has been powered by a relatively small set of technologies. The 20th century was…
2020 Arctic Blast
Get Ready for Winter It’s beginning to look a lot like winter across parts of the north-central United States as waves of snow and frigid air have frequented the region…
Costly Carbon
Net Zero Goals Impossible Without CCUS Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is the only group of technologies that contributes both to reducing emissions in key sectors directly and to…
Hydrogen Boost Energy
Hydrogen Gives Boost Renewable Energy As a Biden presidency is increasingly being viewed as a big win clean energy emerges strong. However, one corner of the market has really been hogging…
R-Values and U-Values simplified!
Thermal conductivity, R-Values and U-Values simplified! Thermal Conductivity of insulating materials The primary feature of a thermal insulation material is its ability to reduce heat exchange between a surface and…
CA bans new car sale of gas-powered vehicles
California plans to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks starting in 2035 in a dramatic move to shift to electric vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The…
More Rolling Blackouts
California More Rolling Blackouts California grid operator warns of rotating power outages in record heat wave The California Independent System Operator (ISO) declared a "Stage 2" power emergency late on…
Why Aren’t Home Efficiency Scores for Real Estate Listed?
Why Aren’t Home Efficiency Scores for Online Real Estate Listed? Realtors say such scores are useful for buyers and can open the door to broader conversations about home energy use.…
Climate-Change Fight Hurts the Poor
U.S. EPA chief claims climate-change fight hurts the poor The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday accused Democrats of hurting the poor with policies aimed at fighting…
Saving $$ on Hot Water with Geothermal
We all know geothermal heat pumps are ultra-efficient and can save you up to 75% on your heating costs, but did you know they can also help you save money…
2020-2021 Geothermal Tax Credits
Federal Geothermal Tax Credit Your Questions Answered 2020 throughout the year 26% / YR 2021 throughout the year 22% /YR Q: What is the Geothermal Tax Credit? A:…
Oil Demand Continues to Decline
World’s Largest Offshore Rig Owner Files Bankruptcy This company is the largest rig owner in The World. UK-based offshore drilling contractor Valaris has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, offering…
Rolling Blackouts
Why are they turning off MY electricity? Rolling Blackouts Q: What are rolling blackouts? A: Rolling blackouts are a rationing scheme utilities resort to when electricity demand outstrips supply, which can…
High Costs Of Electric Cars
High Costs And Low Benefits Of Electric Cars The rush to decarbonize every nation in the world in one or maybe two decades reflects the “I want it all NOW!”…
Renewable Green Energy Myth
THE RENEWABLE GREEN ENERGY MYTH: 50,000 Tons Of Non-Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades Dumped In The Landfill Posted by SRSROCCO IN ECONOMY, ENERGY, NEWSFunny, no one seemed to consider what to do with the…
Is Green Really Green
Today we have a new Green Prince poised to plunge the western world into a self imposed darkness. This Prince first creates the fiction that Carbon causes climate change, then…
GREEN CAR MYTH
THE GREEN ELECTRIC CAR MYTH: 772 Pounds Of Petro-Chemical Plastics In Each Vehicle (Source SRSrocco Report) How can an electric car be called “Green” when it contains more than 700…
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Grand Solar Minimum
grand solar minimum What does it mean for life on earth The Sun has entered a period of reduced activity, known as a solar minimum, which happens on a cyclical…
Net Zero Ready Home Packages
visionary Born to Build Greener Than Green Energy Efficient Homes No one understands the holistic concept of homebuilding like Rodney Leatherman, founder of the EnergySource Home. Leatherman’s unique whole systems…
Energy Saving Tips
FAQS Reduce Energy and Save Money Every day, whether you rent or own a home, you can save energy in ways ranging from big to small. Some of these tips…
What is Energy?
E N E R G Y The simplest definition of energy is "the ability to do work". Energy is how things change and move. It's everywhere around us and takes…
SRSrocco Report
Independent Researcher & Precious Metal Analyst Independent researcher Steve St. Angelo (SRSrocco) started to invest in precious metals in 2002. Later on in 2008, he began researching areas of the gold…
Electric Aircraft takes Flight
World's Largest All-Electric Airplane Flies for Historic 30 Minutes A nine-passenger, all-electric Cessna 208 flies for 30 minutes On a clear and gorgeous day in inland Moses Lake, Washington, the…
Solar Breakthrough
Perovskite Solar Breakthrough Each hour, the sun sends 430 quintillion Joules of energy our way, more than the 410 quintillion Joules that humans consume in a whole year. With the…
$110T Renewable Energy Stimulus Package
$110 Trillion Renewables Stimulus Package Could Create 50 Million Jobs The past few weeks of current events have led us to unprecedented levels of job and capital destruction, decimated consumer…
Utility Companies Helping Out
Utilities take steps to help customers during coronavirus Utility companies across the U.S. are suspending service shutoffs for failure to pay bills during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) says it is…
How A Virus Makes The Case For Renewable Energy
In an interview with Forbes last week, Charles Donovan, executive director of the Center for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College Business School in London, laid out the reasons why he thinks…
Batteries for Grid Backup
Distributed energy platform provider AutoGrid has been developing “co-optimisation” capabilities that will allow residential battery storage deployed to mitigate power outages to continue participating in market opportunities such as joining…
Micro-Energy-Grids
All across N. America, sustainable microgrids are emerging as a vital tool in the fight against climate change and increasingly common natural disasters. In the wake of hurricanes, earthquakes and…
Night Solar….Hmmm?!!
What if solar cells worked at night? That's no joke, according to Jeremy Munday, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis. In fact, a specially…
Who’s afraid of 100%
The following is a contributed article by Jurgen Weiss, Principal at The Brattle Group.Reducing GHG emissions 80% by 2050 relative to 1990 levels — often referred to as an "80…
AC vs DC
Alternating Current (AC) vs Direct Current (DC) The current (electric charge) only flows in one direction in case of DC. But in AC electric charge changes direction periodically. Not only current but also…
Energy Consumption by Country
2020 Few people can argue that electricity isn’t one of our world’s most greatest inventions. After all, electricity allows up to light up our homes without the need for candles…
World’s Largest HVAC Show
AHR show (Orlando, FL) Learning and collaborating The AHR Expo is the world’s largest HVACR event, attracting the most comprehensive gathering of industry professionals from around the globe each year.…
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Dishwasher Water Consumption
WHY ASK? Dishwashers use water. And fresh, clean water is an extremely limited resource. This limited resource is heavily impacted with things like droughts, contamination, and wasteful use. So basically, anyone…
Texas and Renewable Energy
2019 Texas Produced More Renewable Energy Than Coal Last year Texas generated more energy from renewable sources than from coal, according to data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.Texas…
Jan. 4, 2020 – In Studio
Ouchita Electric - Live in Studio Ouachita Electric is making a huge impact in their community by offering their members on-bill financing for energy upgrades and renewable energy…
2020 Electric Cars
The Future in now Virtually every automaker is ramping up research, development, and production in anticipation of a future where the roads are populated with battery-powered electric cars, crossover SUVs…
Powering Christmas Shopping
Powering $1 Trillion Black Friday Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday; it forebodes a massive amount of food, but it also forebodes a massive amount of online shopping and the…
Turkey saves you Energy
Cooking Turkey SavesMoney At Tom's Expense This Thanksgiving Americans will suck up 350 gigawatts of electricity--equivalent to the entire world’s nuclear power capacity in 2012--making turkeys. What is a Gigawatt…
Green License Plates
Green coloured number plates will be issued for electric cars under government plans to encourage drivers to buy zero-emission vehicles.The government said the new licence plates would make the least…
Reducing Greenhouse Gases
An instrument to reduce greenhouse gas emissions The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world’s first and so far the largest installation-level ‘cap-and trade’ system for cutting greenhouse gas…
Clean Energy Industry
Clean energy in U.S. a $1.3 trillion annually CLEAN ENERGY: A new study estimates the “green economy” in the U.S. generates $1.3 trillion in annual revenue, or about 7% of GDP. (Bloomberg)ALSO:• Google…
All Electric = Low Carbon
All-electric homes offer a prototype for low-carbon housing in Colorado Huddled in a construction trailer last year, a team overseeing development of an affordable housing complex in the Colorado mountain…
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Malawian Teen Taught Himself How To Build A Windmill From Junk, Brought Power To His Village, ALL Learned From Library Books! Many people think about changing the world, making a…
800,000 CA Customers without Electricity
Portions of 34 Counties Will be Impacted by Widespread, Severe Wind Event Beginning Wednesday SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Asa precautionary measure to reduce wildfire risk during the forecasted severe wind event,…
Recycling
Recycling Saves Energy The more we recycle; the less energy is needed, costs are lower and we also alleviate the harmful impacts of the processing and extraction of virgin resources…
Entergy Residential Incentives
Arkansas Weatherization Program Up to $1,058 Incentive: ProgramSource: Entergy ArkansasCategory: Whole House, New Home Programs, Home / Residential, Weatherization, Insulation & Air Sealing, Air Conditioning & Fans, Central HeatingTo Qualify:The Arkansas Weatherization Program (AWP)…
Declaring 100% Net Zero – Renewable Energy
We are asking mayors, CEOs, pastors, principals, civic and community leaders, parents and students to commit to solutions that help us achieve 100% clean, renewable energy. Powered by 100% Renewable…
Green Realtors
A real estate agent trained in sustainable homes can help you identify whether or not the home you are considering is truly a zero or zero energy ready home The…
What is Net Zero
What is Net Zero? A Net-Zero home is one that has the ability to produce as much energy as it consumes. This is done by having a tight envelope and…