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It’s getting warm. Time to switch your fans

April 26, 2008
by free electron
1 min read

Now that it is finally getting warmer, it is time to switch the way your ceiling fans spin. I can’t imagine that ALL fans are the same, but mine needs to go counter clockwise for it to pull cool air down. It is easy to tell. Turn on your fan...

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Summer time and the leaf blowers are running

April 18, 2008
by free electron
2 min read
1 Comment

I have never understood leaf blowers. And I am a product and part of suburbia. They are loud. They run on a gas/oil mixture. They pollute horribly. And all they do is move some grass clippings back into the grass from the sidewalk or...

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Gasoline demand and prices

April 9, 2008
by free electron
3 min read

I have seen various posts and have heard a few talking heads talk about how higher gas prices are not reducing demand. Looking at the energy.gov This week in Petroleum site, I have to disagree. First look at the trends and ranges in the graphs. ...

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Moral Hazard: an economic term at the center of environmentalism

March 19, 2008
by free electron
2 min read

How do we ever find out what the real costs are?

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Wasted energy everywhere

March 5, 2008
by free electron
3 min read

I’ve been doing some traveling lately. Some in the air and some walking around my new neighborhood. Everywhere I go, I find wasted energy. Flying over Manhattan and the whole east coast at night just makes on wonder. Why are...

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