Monthly Archive, September 2009
Seattle Energy Code
Pick energy efficient appliances. The third largest energy use in dwelling units is for appliances. Refrigerators consume the most energy because they run 24 hours/day, every day of the year, maintaining a 30 degree temperature difference (65° – 35°) between the air in the kitchen and the air inside the refrigerator, and perhaps twice that between the air in the kitchen and that in the freezer (65° – 0°). The best refrigerators can be 25-30% more energy efficient than the worst in any particular size category.
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SEATTLE – Seattle is plugged into part of $100 million in federal stimulus money to promote electric cars and hundreds of city residents will soon get their own charging stations.
I think we are moving in the right direction getting ourselves off of crude will be a tough battle but a battle which I will fight for. One of the problems is that 70% of Americas electricity comes from coal while the balance is made up of hydro and nuclear energy. In closing it may seem like a catch 22 at first but with a little more time electric cars will be the future.
