by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 30, 2012 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant
Last week we looked at the financial benefits of energy efficiency as compared to the stock market. I’m going to take this a few steps further, as forewarned last week. In both cases we start with the $39,000 investment and the stock market simply grows at its...
by Jeff Ihnen | Feb 13, 2012 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant
True or false: It’s easier to teach Pablo Picasso how to paint a house than it is to make a house painter into a Picasso-grade painter/artist. For the answer, keep reading. I was sitting in a session at last week’s AESP conference sipping my weak overpriced Starbucks...
by Jeff Ihnen | Nov 21, 2011 | Energy Rant
This week I provide my own analysis of raw data to nail this Jell-O to the wall, and I’m done. It’s all good. Does anyone know what the “O” stands for? Orama? Jell Orama? First a recap from last week from which I got some blowback. But would you believe it if I...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 7, 2011 | Energy Rant
This Geography guy really needs to get out of the classroom and the city for that matter once in a while. Modern agriculture is probably demagogued and more poorly understood than energy efficiency, and since this opinion piece addresses both I will dispense with its...
by Jeff Ihnen | May 31, 2011 | Energy Efficiency
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We interrupt this rant for this special announcement. Our cold spring in the northern plains is wreaking havoc in the form of tornadoes in the southern and middle parts of the country. I think the weather phenomena had a lot to do...
