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Attach This to Your Air Conditioner to Save Hundreds on Electricity!

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In an earlier article, we discussed how air conditioning works.  The important fact from that article is that a water cooling function, such as a cooling tower, increases the efficiency of the condenser to allow for more effective cooling. This is due to the fact that, as water evaporates, it absorbs a great deal of energy (heat) from the surrounding air, making the job of your air conditioner’s cooling coil that much easier.

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(Image courtesy of: Bryant, Charles W., and Marshall Brain. “How Air Conditioners Work.” 01 April 2000. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://home.howstuffworks.com/ac.htm> 21 May 2008. Please visit their site for a terrific explanation of air conditioning and other systems.)

Even if you could afford a cooling tower, the neighbors would not be too happy about you installing one unless you had a few hundred acres of land in a remote area. The trick is in scaling down the high efficiency cooling systems, or at least the underlying technology, so that it is accessible for you and me.

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Luckily, I have been researching, and installed at my own house an extremely affordable solution which utilizes that same principle, which is that the evaporation of water mist draws a large amount of energy from the air in the form of heat, allowing your air conditioner’s condensing coils to cool faster and pump that coolness into your house or small office. I was immediately impressed with the simplicity, and the fact the I installed the device in 15 minutes without using any tools whatsoever. Notice here that it is installed on a residential heat pump, and will work on almost any similar split system air conditioner or heat pump. The important factor is that the condenser (the outside portion of your air conditioning system) is upright and has a fan which blows air upwards through a grate. The top portion of the Cool-n-Save is glued onto the condenser and connected to your home’s outdoor water nozzle with the included plastic tubing. The included filter provides water without small particles which would clog the misters. The top of the Cool-n-Save base contains a paddle (flap) which moves upwards when air is blown from the condenser’s fan as shown above, opening a water valve which sends water down through three plastic tubes. Three misters send a cool, moist mist towards the condenser intake, cooling the ambient air by as much as 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Here we see the Cool-n-Save mister in action, spraying a super fine mist and using a tiny amount of water.

Proving Cool-n-Save Energy Savings

Although it is too early to give definitive figures on energy savings, and it will be difficult to compare month-to-month energy bills due to fluctuations in temperature and other variables, I can attest to its ability to reduce the load on my air conditioner and thus cool my home quicker than before. If nothing else, this product increases our comfort level on hot days. Instead of accepting my subjective opinions on the Cool-n-Save, you can download the Cool-n-Save Study by Tulane University for a comprehensive engineering analysis of the device. When in doubt, the Energy Star Partner seal should give you confidence:

Calculate Your Savings

According to Con Edison, the amount of energy used by your air conditioner is a function of outside temperature and thermostat settings, and will range from 50% – 80% of your total energy costs in the summer. How much did you calculate? We conservatively estimated $ 170 per month savings at our home. Would you think it would be fair if Cool-n-Save paid for itself in less than one summer? Before answering, consider other upgrade projects you have completed in your house. Have you installed new windows to improve insulation? The payback period for new windows can run over 10 years! For the Cool-n-Save, let’s use: 3 months x $ 170 savings per month = $ 510 savings in one summer! In our situation, Cool-n-Save is paying for itself in 2-3 weeks! Plus, we noticed our house reached a comfortably cool temperature much quicker, even on the hottest, most humid days! If the Cool-n-Save cost only $ 100.00, then it will be EARNING you money for 2-1/2 months of the summer, or even longer in hot, southern-US States. $ 170 savings per month x 2.5 months = $ 425 PROFIT you made this summer by using an energy efficiency device!

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The “Shocking” Truth About Phantom Power in Your Home

Lately much is being written about energy saving and how phantom power leakage in your home and office is costing you more than you know. But how much of that is pure hyperbole? Are you really throwing money away when you leave your television and stereo set plugged-in but turned off? We’ll show to how to find out for yourself if it’s even worth bending over to unplug that device.

What is phantom power? It is a term coined to describe the power being consumed by an appliance when it is switched off but not unplugged. For example, turning off your television screen might not stop power consumption because the internal transformer is still connected to the socket and “leaking” power. In addition, other components, such as an LCD clock, display or status light might consume additional power.

How does one solve the problem? Most effectively, unplugging the device entirely from its socket is the best cure, but that can be inconvenient, and might also wear out your plug. Who wants to bend down and reach behind the entertainment center so many times a day to unplug the TV?

Another option is to use a power strip or a smart strip. You can plug multiple devices into a power strip, but just make sure that the total wattage of all the devices does not exceed the power strip’s electrical rating to avoid a fire hazard, or more likely, blown fuses. How do you know if you have exceeded the maximum? We’ll get to that later.

What is the difference between a power strip and a smart strip? A power strip lets you plug a number of electrical appliances into a single outlet and has a single flip switch which turns all of the appliances on or off together.

A smart strip is similar, except that one of the outlets is “smart,” that is, it senses if it is being used or not. If it is not being used, it will turn off all the appliances on the strip. Why is this useful? For example, if you leave your computer on overnight, you can program it to shut down if its power manager is easy to use. When the smart strip senses the lower power usage of your computer, it will also turn off the other plugs, thus turning off other power consumers like your printer, fax machine, table lamp, external computer speakers, etc. It is estimated that this can save over $ 100.00 per year in electrical power just from the computer not including all the peripheral equipment, far more than the cost of the smart strip.

Not too bad from an ROI perspective: Pay $ 30 for a smart strip, save $ 100 per year. Want more returns? Install more energy saving products! After all, do you own stocks or real estate that return over 300% annually? Is this not the same as investing in stocks which return 300% a year? Why not? Someone once said something like “300% saved is truly 300% earned.”

Like we mentioned above, the smart strips work well with an enhanced power manager for your computer, which operates on all Windows platforms and MAC better than the  installed native utility application. Download a trial copy for free now! (While it’s still free…)

Terrific – it pays for itself in a matter of months on a computer, but what about the other appliances? As promised in the beginning of this article, this is where we show you the money,  using an inexpensive electric meter called a “Kill a Watt.”

The following tests were done with the below pictured Kill-a-Watt device as described:

Figure 1 – Kill a Watt measures 10 watts when TV, VCR, DVD Player, and Entertainment System are plugged in but turned off. As you can see, this is NOT costing you a fortune.

Using Maryland BG&E electricity rates of 11 cents per kWH: 10 watts = 0.01 kW.

So, 0.01 kW x $0.11/kWH x 24 hours / day x 365 days / year = $9.64 per year.

At this point, the Kill a Watt device’s annual ROI is about 50%.

Figure 2 – No big surprises here. Zero watts measured when the power strip button was switched off. It just proves that it isn’t hard to save $ 9.64 and reduce some carbon dioxide output into our atmosphere too by using the most effective energy saving device ever devised – the on/off switch.

Figure 3- This time I turned on the VCR and DVD player, but did not press play. They were just sitting in standby as if you had finished a movie and did not turn them off. Do you want to know how much that is costing you?

As above, we calculate: 0.036 kW x 0.11 x 24 x 365 = $ 34.68 wasted per year. The Kill-a-Watt more than paid for itself by giving you the knowledge required to save energy.

And that’s at competitive Baltimore Gas & Electric rates of 11 cents per kWH. What are your electricity rates? Calculate your energy waste or savings with our online energy calculator.

Remember, your electric rates are going up every year! By alot!

Figure 4 – Same as in figure 3, but I also turned on the entertainment system, but did not play anything. Just left it on as if a song had finished playing and we went to bed for the night without turning it off.

0.067 x 0.11 x 24 x 365 = $ 64.56 per year in wasted electricity costs! That’s not much, but it’s 3 times the cost of the Kill-a-Watt meter, without which you would not be discovering these opportunities to save power.

Observe:  This was just the VCR, DVD Player, and Entertainment System, and they weren’t even being used.

What happens when you leave the TV on? How about the space heater when nobody is using it? Why don’t you calculate those numbers yourself? You might be shocked by the answer! (Hint: A TV can easily consume 240 watts of electricity, and more, depending on its size and technology, while an electric space heater typically consumes between 1000 – 1600 watts.) Go ahead and run those numbers!

Click on the Kill a Watt banner below and buy one for a miserly $ 20.00+ and you will be on the road to saving HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS! Remember, you can’t save what you cannot see, so the first step to saving hundreds of dollars, if not thousands, is to buy yourself a Kill a Watt and a Smart Strip or two. With the $ 30.00 Amazon Card rebate you get prior to check-out, you will get these devices almost for free. Buy them now and start saving:

If you need a more robust smart meter for internet-monitored commercial or industrial applications, you should choose our Smart Meter instead.

Finally, you cannot reduce your power consumption to zero without going back to a Stone Age lifestyle, so for the remaining power consumption in your home or business, make sure you are using GREEN power, that is, from renewable sources.

You can compare energy plans by clicking here.

• It’s free to switch
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• There are no contracts, no minimums, no cancellation fees
• It takes 5 minutes
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• Your local utility still bills you and provides emergency service
• You’ll be using 20% or 100% (your choice) clean wind power
• YOU”LL SAVE MONEY OVER YOUR UTILITY RATES
• The service is “Green-E’ certified

What are you waiting for? Switch now!

Luxim Plasma vs CFL and LED Lighting for Energy Savings!

Luxim’s Plasma Light Bulb is More Efficient Than Even LED’s

However, until Luxim’s product is available on the market and affordable, you can find information about our LED lighting products, and distributors can receive wholesale price lists at the following link:

Click here for LED lighting brochures and wholesale prices!

Nice feature: The light closely mimics sunlight – much more pleasant than fluorescent.

Look Who is Fighting Against Wind Power!

Here is an example of the use of front organizations to create what appears on the outside to be a “grass-roots movement” which is actually subtly supported by corporate interests. Next time you hear about the damaging effects of wind power on our environment, you might want to dig deeper.

The following is an excerpt from www.treehugger.com, a fantastic site for environmental news. Here’s an eye-opener from their webpage – check out their sponsors’ link – there are none! No special interests interfering with their agenda!

Excerpt follows:

Eco-Scandal or Clerical Mistake?
Well, well. The cat’s out of the bag: “The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound [...] filed a federal document last month reporting that its work is partially funded and shaped by an international energy conglomerate. [...] The disclosure represents the first documented financial connection between the group opposing the wind farm and Oxbow Corp., which mines and markets energy and commodities, including coal, natural gas, and petroleum.”

Elementary school students save $ 800 per month on electric power using little red stickers

It doesn’t always take grand gestures to save energy. As Hollydale Elementary students are proving, something as simple as a little red ticket can serve as a useful reminder – and now their school is saving $800 a month in energy costs! The Watt Watchers team, comprised of Hollydale students, put their warning tickets in classrooms that leave lights on or waste energy in other ways, and the little savings are certainly adding up.

Cost-Effective Solar Power Solutions = Solar Water Heating

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Of all the types of solar power systems available today, solar water heating is one of the most effective so far. Below you will find some links to very cost-effective solar power systems, some of which are very efficient, like the thermosiphon solar water heater which does not even need a pump!

Nevertheless, we carry not only passive and active solar water heaters, but also monocrystalline and polycrystalline solar panels with or without trackers, BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaic Solar Electric laminates, tiles and other materials which integrate into your home’s design and blend with your rooftop), building integrated solar water heaters (not visible from the ground) and solar absorbtion air conditioners (not powered by solar – these solar air conditioners use a solar heated liquid to create cooling using a hydrophilic heat transfer component.)

40 Gallon Passive Solar Water Heater Uses the sun to preheat water for a standard electric or gas water heater. Save up to 20% of total household energy costs… Quoted	Thermosiphon Passive Solar Water Heater Solar Panels contain food grade glycol, which, when heated by the sun, rises up to circulate through the ceramic lined water tank, heating the water. Quoted
Rheem Tankless Gas Water Heater Eco-$mart offers a full line of energy efficient tankless gas water heaters. Rheem tankless water heaters deliver hot water on demand with a digital control system designed for highest safety and lowest energy use. Quoted	Building Integrated Solar Water Heating Installed under a metal roof during new construction or a re-roofing process, the system collects the sun’s energy as heat, which is then conducted by the metal roof into a proprietary collection system. Quoted

Pool Heating

Enersol Solar Pool Heating Kit The Enersol solar pool heating system is simple, clean, easy to install, virtually maintenance free, and most importantly – it works. Do-it-yourself installation kit available. List: $258.00 Eco-$mart Price: $215.00

Solar Attic Pool Heater Heat exchanger that cools your attic while heating your pool. No roof-mounted panels, efficient and quiet operation. Fully automatic system with controller.