fossil fuel consumption Archives

Dec 05

Electric Bills and Waldo

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant One Comment

Recently, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy issued a report, “The State of the Utility Bill” and I thought, “now there is a topic for plenty of discussion.” No, that was no joke, although there was an interesting finding that I found to be very hilarious: All of the ~100 bills analyzed in the study (100%) included the amount due to the utility from the customer. I would say not having the amount due would have its disadvantages. (that WAS a joke) I’ve witnessed and studied many issues regarding end user understanding of energy, energy consumption, and end…

Apr 12

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B.A.N.A.N.A.S. – Go Bananas

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant, Renewable Energy, Sustainability No Comments

This was a dopey high school cheer of my older brother’s and sister’s sporting days in high school. “Go bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Go bananas!” How lame. What does it mean? I much preferred, “Watermelon. Watermelon. Watermelon rind. Look at the scoreboard and see who’s behind. You! You! You! You!” This was always led by the rowdy crowd after the opposing team’s cheerleaders would do a dopey skit, like the banana thing. One of the first posts I wrote was Renewable NIMBY, that people purport to be in favor of renewable energy unless they have to look at it or pay for…