Homeowner Digest

Gallen Ho asked:


What Do You Gain By Using Earth For Energy - Wind Power Generators and Solar Panel Systems?

At present, electrical and fuel prices have been increasing drastically. As a result, many families are experiencing financial pressures. Using Earth for Energy is an alternative energy method which most people has chosen in attempt to save more electrical costs. This includes building your very own Power Generators and Solar Panel System. With the generators being built, you are able to generate your own electricity in your households, and save a lot of money on electrical costs.

Wind power generators and solar panel systems are popularly known for their ability to convert natural energy into usable electricity. As such, the benefits are straight-forward and practical - save money. In addition, the benefits of these generators also include acquiring tax incentives and prevent giving off harmful greenhouses gases to the environment.

In regards to tax incentives, do check on your area for rebates offered by the governments. These rebates exist as encouragements for using environmental friendly system in your households. In Fact, many construction companies have already been practicing this method for its benefits in saving electrical costs. You are able to enjoy the wealth of generating electricity to power your appliances. In the night, excess electrical power generated during the day can be used. Basically, the amount of generated electricity in your household will be sufficient for usage.

Where Can You Station Your Wind Power Generators or Solar Panels Systems?

Wind Power Generators are best to be stationed in uncovered places where huge amount wind can be easily received. Solar Panel Systems requires the exposure to the sunlight, therefore, it is advised to be situated on rooftops of homes or commercial facilities.  For home purposes, Solar Panel Systems can be alternatively stationed in gardens as long as it is near the main area.

Being Environmental Friendly

With the increasing amount of greenhouse gases being accumulated in the world today, it is important for us to protect the earth by reducing the amount of these harmful gases. One effective way to contribute to protect earth is by switching to environmental friendly system such as Wind Power Generators and Solar Panel Systems. The reason is simple, these generators utilize only natural wind and sun energy to operate; therefore, it does not produce harmful gases. Not only can you save money on electricity, you can also play a part to protect the planet.



Green Power

Guardian asked:


People have been trying to change the middle east for thousands of years. War was always the method and it always failed. If we americans would insist that government and business come together and create alternative energy sources, the people that want to follow us home would have to teach their camels to swim in order to get here. Those arabs are getting filthy rich off of our gas guzzling S.U.V.’s and all of the other waste of energy in this country.

I believe the solution isn’t to bomb them back to the stone age but to force them back to a way of life without oil money that leaves them a threat to noone outside their own little sandbox. What do you think?

Green Power

Hazz asked:


Hello,

I was wondering if one day I wanted to buy good products for generating energy from alternative resources like the Wind power and the Solar power, which companies are the best in supplying those kinds of generators?

I’m not just thinking of small generators for homes, I’m thinking of a bigger level too. Like for big industrial companies or even National level!

Thanks a lot for your expertise exchange

Solar Hot Water

fateridder asked:


Democrats (mostly) in Congress complain that the President doesn’t have a credible energy policy. I personally don’t know whether he does or not because the whole issue is far too complex for me .

But I feel pretty certain that Congress doesn’t have the knowledge to set an energy policy . Part of my certainty is based on having read an interview with a newly elected U.S. Representative , Ron Klein of Florida . Here is an excerpt from the Town Crier newpaper :

After such achievements as the Apollo moon missions and the Manhattan Project that unleashed the power of the atom, Klein said, anyone who doubts the United States can create powerful new alternative energy sources is selling the nation’s brainpower short. All that’s required is the will to do so, he said, holding up a letter-size sheet of paper to make his point.

“If you are telling me we can’t create a solar panel the size of that piece of paper to power every home in Wellington, I don’t believe it,” he said. “I think we can. I don’t mean tomorrow. But I mean over the next ten years. I think we can do it.”

Assuming that the Congressman meant only that one solar panel could power ONE home , rather than every home , ( Wellington has around 50,000 population by the way ) the misunderstanding of the amount of solar energy falling on a single sheet of paper is absolutely ludicrous . But , Rep. Klein won’t believe it if you tell him that . Granted that he is the only one I’ve heard make such a ridiculous statement , it would be interesting to know how many of our congress people or executive branch honchos , have enough knowledge of the physics of energy , the economics of energy and the diplomacy of energy to make a viable “energy policy” for the U.S.

Anyone agree ?

Solar Power Stuff

initialspeed7 asked:


I would like to know if I can use a generator or car batteries or any other energy to light my small earthbag home other than solar or wind energy. Solar and wind energy is to expensive are there any other low cost ways to power my home? It has to be off-grid meaning not connected to a utility company.
gggsbaby - what are you talking about?

Solar Power Generation

celly asked:


2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President

Welcome to Toastmasters, June 13, 2033. That’s right: 2033.

Today Rick Campbell, one of our senior members at age 87, is here to reminisce a bit and give us a history lesson. He says he is so old that he learned to drive an internal combustion engine car (remember those) with a manual transmission. He once owned a typewriter. He remembers when bicycles had one speed, phones had two-party lines, and cameras had something called film. As incredible as this may seem, he says that when he was young, it was common for people to smoke in restaurants and public places. He is from a different time; almost a different world.

I’m sure all of us are far too familiar with the tragic events of 2010, so Rick is not going to plow that fertile field again. Instead, he is going to give us a personal look back at the conditions which led up to that fateful year, in a speech titled “2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President.”

“2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President”

Yes, 2010 was long ago and far away.

As we look back on history, it appears that some Presidents had an easy ride- times of growth and stability. Teddy Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton come to mind. Those were good years to be President.

Others were elected just when the Republic was facing terrible crises:

Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, George W. Bush. They rose to the occasion, even though they were controversial and widely hated while in office. Not such good years to be President.

Just a few years prior, in 2008, the country began foundering. We were in the sixth year of the Iraqi Occupation, and the economy was flat. The mainstream press clearly wanted a Democrat elected.

Although we didn’t know it until some years later, oil producing nations had colluded to secretly buy their own oil on the open market, driving oil prices to shocking levels above the true demand price- reaching a high of $162 a barrel in October, 2008, just before the general elections.

Their purpose was simple: to effect regime change in the United States.

And of course, the U.S. economy was already in a real estate slump and also suffering the curse of stagflation; slow growth and high inflation.

There were a million home foreclosures.

Independent truckers went under by the thousands.

Airlines failed. Airlines with names now long-forgotten: United, Delta, Northwestern, American. All now merged, of course, into the one lone U.S. carrier we love so much: Southwest.

Against this backdrop of weariness of the war on terror, and economic distress, the American people were ripe for a demagogue, and they certainly got one in Barack Hussein Obama.

He and his running mate Kathlene Sibelius inspired them with vague notions of hope and change; of a world in which diplomacy settled all international problems, of free universal health care, of abundant alternative energy, of peace and love.

It was a vision too good to resist.

The Republican nominee, a name you probably haven’t heard in years anyone?

Yes, it was John McCain, an obscure Senator from Arizona had no clue how to run a national campaign, and a platform nearly as liberal as Obama’s.

The selection of Condoleeza Rice as his running mate looked brilliant at first. Unfortunately, black voters viewed her as white, and women voters viewed her as one of the guys.

Even so, the McCain/Rice ticket would have won the election if it weren’t for the fact that 16 percent of conservative Republicans voted for anyone remember? That’s right, Bob Barr, another name that’s a footnote in history.

After Obama’s narrow win, thanks to recounts in Broward County, Florida, the country was positively giddy. A Democrat House, Senate, and President. At last an end to gridlock in Washington.

Camelot!

When Congress convened in January, 2009, the 44th President of the United States did something unique in history: he made good on his campaign promises.

Certainly most Americans never really thought he was serious during the campaign. But whether because of inexperience, idealism, or simply incompetence, he followed through.

In Obama’s first One Hundred Days, the Congress passed his initiatives, and he signed them into law as he said he would.

He repealed the Bush tax cuts, and increased capital gains taxes.

He enacted a windfall profits tax, and instituted price controls on
gasoline and diesel fuel.

He passed universal health care, which added an additional 10 percent tax increase on all working Americans.

He signed the Immigrant Amnesty bill which created 12 million new citizens instantly, each with entitlements.

He closed the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and summarily released all the detainees.

He repealed the Patriot Act, and cut funding for espionage, and eliminated all terrorist listening and wiretaps.

Most important, he began the complete and immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.

He ignored the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wanted to retain bases in Kuwait and Qatar. Instead, he went with the recommendation of Secretary of Defense Dennis Kucinich, and ordered all troops back to U.S. soil.

Viola! In One Hundred Days, by May of 2009, it was all done, and the vision was complete. He did exactly what he said he would do.

And so it was in the summer of 2009 that things began to unravel for Obama.

Of course, the economy needed a tax cut, not an increase, and unemployment quickly rose to 12 percent. Even attorneys and economists were put in the bread lines. Hard times!

Price con! trols on gasoline immediately led to shortages and gas lines.

The global cooling trend we have seen for the past 25 years first became obvious in 2009, exposing the CO2 global warming fraud.

People were justifiably angry.

Federal deficits increased massively because thousands of baby boomers, facing job loss and much higher taxes, simply gave up and took social security.

Although the superb U.S. health care system was thrown into disarray, the bright spot was the creation of the Federal Department of Health care, and the immediate hiring of 250,000 administrators, inspectors and auditors, the only job growth in any economic sector in 2009.

By February 2010, the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq was complete. It was a very expensive undertaking.

And then in March, the gradual Shiite insurgencies from Iran turned into a true Iraqi civil war. In May, Iranian tanks crossed the border and quickly took Baghdad. Although the exact number is not know, at least 230,000 Sunni Iraqis died as we stood by.

Iran also quickly moved into undefended Kuwait.

President Obama did exactly what he said he would. He sent Secretary of State, Maria Cantwell, to Tehran to meet with Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

After two weeks of high level talks, the United States agreed to allow Iran to retain Iraq and Kuwait to create stability in the middle east, with the understanding that Israel would not be disturbed.

Cantwell returned to Washington, and explained the agreement in her famous speech, in which she proudly noted that the Obama administration had finally achieved “peace in our time” in the Middle East.

So there was some surprise at the rocket attacks on Tel Aviv on August 14th.

President Obama said, “This is not the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I knew.”

The Obama administration decided it would be de-stabilizing to take sides in the conflict, and approximately 29,000 Israeli civilians died during the summer and fall.

American Jews were appalled at the inaction. Yes, in 2010 most American Jews were Democrats, but because of 2010, they are solid Republicans today.

As awkward as it was, everything might have turned out all right for the Obama administration going into the fall mid-term elections of 2010, if it hadn’t been for the dirty bomb in the Port of Long Beach.

The administration had cut funding for the inspection of containers,
because they felt it showed a “lack of trust” in the international trading community.

It wasn’t really a very big bomb, and thank goodness, not a real nuclear device, but nonetheless it contaminated some expensive real estate-Newport Beach, Palos Verdes Estates- and ultimately caused the death of 14,000 Americans. People were especially annoyed that Disneyland had to be closed for decontamination.

And so, in the midterm elections, Republicans regained control of both the House and Senate, and the rest is history.

The impeachment proceedings against President Obama for “failure to protect and defend” were swift and nearly unanimous. Vice President&nbs! p;Sibeli us resigned. Newly-elected Speaker of the House, J.C. Watts, became the 45th President of the United States.

But you know the rest of the story well.

Republicans finished the war on Islamic fundamentalists, largely by aiming ICBM’s at Mecca and Medina.

No Democrat has been elected President since.

Republicans have held both Houses of Congress.

History of Western Civilization and Economics are now taught in all public schools, and in English only.

Marriage is defined as one man and one woman.

And there are border fences, north and south.

We old codgers remember the ancient Confucian curse: “May you live in interesting times.”

Well, 2010 was an interesting year, but it was not a good year to be president.”

(Far fetched? We are likely to find out if we continue to be unaware of the issues and vote with our emotions rather than be studious in our approach to electing our “public officials”.)
Elvira(aka nasty bi-ch)..and anyone else..I did not write a word of this, just put it out as it was foward to me..

Energy Alternatives

doricescottage asked:


I am a substitute teacher on a limited income and we want to convert to solar and wind power if possible. The home was built in the 1920’s. Please only serious answers!

Solar Power At Home

Steam asked:


With all the money we are spending on this conflict could’nt we spend it better and still keep you happy? Develop a real missle defense. It would add jobs and have the money kept here. Also keep contractors thier fat contracts. Secure our borders again money kept in house,,jobs provided. It would free up our resources to allow us to respond to natural disasters more effectively. Develop alternative energy so we would not need the oil,again jobs,money and technology. And while our troops are safe at home they would simply kill each other. See, win win for us.
Gimp, whats your point? Are they terrorists threatening my need for consumables?

Solar Hot Water

satin_rust asked:


I’m looking for opinions and what stops single-resident homeowners from switching to alternative energy products (to reduce or remove their home from the electrical grid)
What do you think?
What is stopping people from using off-grid electricity?

Green Energy

krm614 asked:


I posted a question earlier asking about alternative energy sources and it seems to be too expensive to purchase solar panels to offset the electrical cost, now I am trying to figure something else out….

We have a two story home and our fireplace is locate downstairs. The fireplace has an insert an when the fan is running the heat will run you out of our den and it does a good job of heating up the downstairs. Our problem is the master bedroom is upstairs. While our downstairs is pleasantly heated, when we go upstairs it feels like the Arctic! I know heat rises but it doesn’t seem to have enough juice to make it upstairs. What if anything can we do to help the heat rise to the second floor. Any help would be much appreciated.

ALSO…..I know that a wood burning fireplace is not the best for our environment but with alternative energy being so expensive (solar panels, etc.) I am forced to figure out what I can do to try to reduce our cost until there is a better and cheaper alternative.

Solar Power Generation