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martes, 19 de julio de 2011

Put your house on a diet

Homes consume an enormous amount of energy, especially in heating and cooling, and American homes consume around six times the world average. Once you've audited your home for energy use (even if you haven't) some simple moves can cut your electricity bill. Keep your house cool with natural ventilation instead of air conditioning as much as possible. Use in-room, ceiling, or whole-house fans to move air throughout the house. Blocking sunlight during hot hours of the day can help lower your cooling load. If your house uses electricity for water heating, wrapping your water tank in an insulating blanket can save on power. Also, if your house is heated with electricity, see other alternatives such as cantilever construction for windows very exposed to the sun or a long-term investment in what are waterproof roof or as we saw in the previous post, start a green roof project for the same home for so optimize and streamline what is the use of air conditioning in the house and therefore not so dependent on air conditioning and in turn not having to spend so much energy helping the planet and our pockets. You can also go to a solution this problem by dissipating the heat radiation from the sun so that it can be spread away from home.

Light colors in both exterior and interior of the house are also influential because it does not attract as much heat as dark.

Try to have a house always fresh and airy, but watch out for mosquitoes)

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