February 27, 2009 at 10:04 am (energy, money savings)
Tags: energy, savings, temperature, thermostat
We got a new thermostat this week, finally. Our old one should have been a museum and certainly needed to be changed out long ago. It was the slide kind and was impossible to know what the thing was actually set at. And once it was set you didn’t dare change it because you’d never that temperature back again.
Our new one doesn’t have all the bells and whistles but it is digital with very clear numbers. It’s easy to know what the settings are and what the room temperature currently is.
The total cost was under $30. It took my husband under and hour to change them out and another half hour to read the setting instructions and play with it a little. Not a very big investment, but I am expecting us to save money.
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November 20, 2008 at 12:06 pm (Cost of green, energy)
Tags: coal, energy, gas, Mother Nature, oil, solar, wind
God, Mother Nature, President of the Universe, take your pick which one you believe in. Which ever it is they must be laughing at us humans.
Why are they laughing, because we keep picking the dirtiest and most dangerous options for our energy needs. Natural gas and oil, coal, wind and solar. There are other options but these are the “big boys” of energy.
Some greater force buried natural gas, oil and coal deep in the earth. It is dangerous to get to them and more dangerous to work with them, not to mention dirty and well, oily.
Wind and solar energy are certainly above ground. They are both just out there waiting for someone to come along and put them to work. They are not to dangerous, we send out kids out to play in them. They are not dirty at all, we all love the smell of things warmed by the sun.
So yeah, some greater and all knowing force has got to be laughing us.
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