This is a great article on what a little hard work and ingenuity can do to reduce some heating bills. A gentleman in Michigan was frustrated at his rising heating bills back in the early 80's and as the article says:
"After taking a solar energy class at a community college, he cobbled together a concept and some wholesale equipment to create a large solar collector on the south side of his Lewis Avenue home."
He built a solar collector from scratch after having taken one class! He said that his house can reach 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the dead of a freezing Michigan winter and that his monthly heating bill rarely exceeds 40 bucks. Imagine the possibilities and the ideas that will come about if we could retrain some of the U.S. workforce for clean tech jobs. How long do we need to remain at the mercy of rising natural gas bills?
Moving toward a more sustainable, renewable, and efficient world.
How do we get there?
Dead of freezing Michigan winter! A sample image: http://michigansweetspot.com/2008/03/01/solitude-along-the-winter-lakeshore/.
ReplyDeleteTake that, ye fools who use "the sun doesn't always shine" as an excuse not to go solar.
Ha. Nice pic. That one surely makes me want to move back to the Midwest.
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