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Jun 02

Energy Program Evaluation, Not Activism

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant 4 Comments

In my day, we didn’t have peewee soccer, football, gymnastics, or tee-ball. We had to improvise and make up game rules to play two-on-two football. We had no gear; not even the cheap plastic crap from Sears. We set the lawn mower as low as it would go to cut the sidelines and goal lines and made up the rules as we went. We were a bunch of hayseeds throwing a rubber football around, inflicting bone-on-bone pain to each other, pretending to be in the NFL – and we liked it!This may sound like the Grumpy Old Man, but it…

Oct 27

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LEED and the NOT Happenin’ Savings

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Rant, LEED No Comments

Studies have shown that LEED buildings are no more efficient and have no less of a “carbon footprint” than the average building of its peers. I remember reading an old guy’s rant in one of the 20 building engineering and architecture magazines I get. He was grousing that the reason is because there tends to be a lot more glazing and over-ventilation of LEED facilities, along with some other stuff I don’t remember. Apparently, the guy was a proponent of living and working in igloo coolers with no connection the outdoors, which is a big deal for me and everyone…