Tag Archives: Energy
Real Estate: Invest tax refund into your house
Image via Wikipedia New Energy star model for your laundry room- can cost energy costs by $135 annually Pay off your mortgage paying as little as $100 extra each month can save you $52,000 on a $250,000 dollar loan at 6% … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservation, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Star, home, Home improvement, Speed bump, Technology
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Racine News: Retrofit Racine Program
from glass slipper homes : Racine, WI, will allow residents to fund energy-efficient retrofits in the Retrofit Racine program. The idea behind focusing on older buildings, such as the ones in Racine, will allow residents to see that older buildings are … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon dioxide, Conservation, Efficient energy use, Energy, Environment, Racine Wisconsin, Technology, Wisconsin
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Real Estate news: replace programmable thermostat
Microsoft’s Hohm team shows you how easy it is in a how-to video to replace your thermostat with a programmable one. source lifehacker
Real Estate: Solar Shingles
Real Estate- Dow Chemicals Co. will release the PowerHouse Solar Shingle soon, which can be incorporated with roofs in standard shingles. The solar shingles will cost less then solar panels & easier to install Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Dow Chemical Company, Electric, Energy, Renewable, Roof, Solar, Solar shingles
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Companies to Watch: Bloom energy
This could change the way you power your home! They create energy by sand & ink’s burning rubbing against plates giving you a mini-powerplant this could be big in real estate.
Waukesha, Racine, Madison to test energy efficient streetlights
They are using $795,000 Federal grant money to do it
they replaced 1,000 of its 3,600 sodium lights
It produces white light that has less of a glare
600 lights have been replaced so far
40% reduction in energy
old lights lasted 3-5 years
Expect Led’s to last up to 20 years Continue reading
