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Jun 01

Condensing Boilers – Test for Show, Ship for Dough

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant 4 Comments

Everyone has probably heard at least one hundred or maybe a thousand light bulb jokes – the ones that disparage a class, gender, group, country, state, generation, etc. The point is to make fun of the group in question because changing a light bulb is so simple, but it takes several doofuses in the disparaged group to do it. Unfortunately, changing a light bulb is about the only energy retrofit measure that doesn’t get screwed up, usually. Is this all we are capable of? In the past couple years, I have posted at least four Rants on energy code non-compliance:…

Jan 11

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Goodfellas Take California

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant, Renewable Energy, Sustainability One Comment

As I discussed in The Delectable Light Bulb back in October, I think it is bad policy to force things onto people, or similarly banning a product that is essentially harmless. Ratcheting up the minimum energy efficiency ratio, perhaps better known as the EER or SEER of air conditioning units is one thing. The deliverable (cold air) is the same. Not so with compact fluorescent light bulbs and incandescent bulbs. The do-gooders of California lead by the Governator are “leading the nation” with the ban on incandescent light bulbs, starting this year. You can say it isn’t a ban like…