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How To Keep Your House Cool Without Air Conditioning

Here are some ways to keep your home cool without air conditioning. First we will look at ways to cool an existing, traditional home. One of the best ways to keep a home cool without air conditioning is to...

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How To Use A Kill A Watt Power Monitor To Save Energy

The Kill a Watt power monitor. The Kill A Watt or Killawatt is a device that you can use to find out just how much energy an appliance is using. More and more Americans are trying to reduce the amount of...

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How To Find Green Jobs and Alternative Energy Careers

Green Jobs Will Be Red Hot Green jobs are hot, even during the current recession. The government is spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give the alternative energy industry a boost. Some of the...

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How We In The US Can Live Without Mideast Oil

We send billions of dollars each year to overseas countries to buy oil and many of those countries use that money to fund activities that may be directly at odds with the best interest of the US. A case in...

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How To Save Energy Using A Smart Strip Power Strip

My wife and I recently installed a 3 kilowatt solar panel system on our home. After living aboard our boat Rising Star, which was powered in part by solar panels, we felt that this was something we wanted to...

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Making Your Home Super Energy Efficient

We have an ordinary "tract" home built the same way as the one next to it and the one next to it and so on. The difference between our home and those of our neighbors is that their electricity bills run $300...

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How To Make Your Ordinary Home Super Green

New popular shows like Greenovate show ordinary homes that have been transformed into green homes. Here are some ways you can make your home more energy efficeint and green. It is possible, without spending...

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How Much Money Does A Metal Roof Save?

Metal roofs are a beautiful thing. They come in a variet of styles from old fashioned tin roofs for country homes to ones that look like tile or even wood shingles. On average, with most insurance companies,...

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Phantom Loads. How To Eliminate Them and Save Energy

Silent Thieves, Phantom Loads Phantom loads are also known as vampire loads or standby power. The are silent thieves that are robbing our wallets and polluting or environment by drawing electrical power from...

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How Oil Wells Are Drilled and Drilling Rig Theory

The process by which an oil or gas well is drilled has changed little in the last hundred years. The technology and equipment though have become much more complex. Hard working men and sometimes women,...

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