The green energy folks running amuck in the Obama administration whose solution is to throw taxpayer money at companies to encourage "green" innovation. Especially if the owners are major Obama campaign contributors like those who owned the bankrupt solar company Solyndra. Though some government agencies like NASA at least know how to get the most bang for a buck. Here is exhibit A:
NASA offered about a 1 million dollar prize to the winner of the competition and got the results above. Menwhile the green idiots of the Obama administration GAVE Solyndra a half a billion dollars and got nothing!
Showing posts with label energy efficency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy efficency. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Monday, October 22, 2007
Speaking of energy
The natural gas meter for my house is located inside my house. Because my life keeps me on the go quite a bit it seems I have never been home when the meter reader comes by. So it has been a long time since the meter was read. So I went to Gas utilities website a few days later to see what the bill would be. Since I have modified my 1980's installed solar hot water system to provide heat for the house I figured that the gas company's estimated billing should give me some savings. They still had an estimated bill number for the account balance. Strange I thought the meter readers updated numbers should have been entered by now. So I tried to enter the actual gas meter numbers my self. The Gas Company's computer kicked it back saying: "According to our projections regarding usage you should have a reading of 1120-1175 ( my actual reading was 848). It refused to believe the numbers so i had to call a talk to a person and explain I have modified my solar hot water panels to provide heat into the house and have also made other solar and energy efficient changes to my fifty year old house to help heat it. She finally entered the new numbers into the computer and I receive a new updated bill with a $650 credit. Kaching! Houston you do have a problem because I have only begun to make energy efficient modifications to the rancho de BCP. My personal energy plan is about more money in my pocket and less heading to Houston and Saudi Arabia. Stay tuned!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Solar Decathalon and the winner is...
I was down at the mall last week here in Washington D.C. where the Solar Decathlon was being held. This is a competition from universities around the world where students compete to build an energy efficient house. This years winner is Technische Universität Darmstadt who come from Germany. Which incidentally is going very heavy into solar power for energy use. Surprising to see that Al Gore did not show up I guess he's too busy after his winning the Nobel Peace prize for his power point demonstration to show up. Also missing was President George Bush who despite the fact that the Solar Decathlon was being held only a two minute walk from the back door of the White House never showed up. He went fishing instead or should I say fission.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Blog Action day. Shine on brightly!
Today some 15,000 blogs including BCP will participate in Blog Action Day. The blogs will be focusing on some type of enviornmental action. I have chosen to focus on my ongoing process to make things more efficient in my daily life and reducing my carbon foot print at the same time. Blog action Day give me a perfect opportunity to show my latest project. Modifying a classic the Tensor desk lamp located at the BCP Washington bureau news desk. Shown below. The lamps original 14 watt incandescent bulb blew out recently. Rather than replace it with another bulb of the same type. I decide to improve the efficiency of the lamp by changing it to an LED light. But, first a little historical tribute to it's inventor Jay Monroe. 
"Jay Monroe, an engineer whose wife’s discontent over the strong light he needed for bedtime reading provoked him to invent a high-intensity, low-voltage mini lamp whose use spread to desks, jewelers’ worktables, limousines and far beyond, died on June 12 at his home in Sands Point, N.Y. He was 80.
His wife, Barbara, said he shot himself after he and his doctor had discussed the possibility that he had cancer.
Mr. Monroe created the Tensor lamp, then manufactured and sold it. The small, skinny lamp focused a narrow cone of high-intensity white light, making shapes, colors and objects appear sharper to the eye. Its first users were professionals like doctors and dentists, then older people and others with weak vision. It soon became an American staple, a lamp that students took to college, couples installed on each side of the bed and stamp collectors adored."-New York Times
The Tensor light even showed up as part of the excuse for the 18 minute gap in the Watergate tapes.
"Most notoriously, in 1973, White House officials attributed the deletion of part of a critical 18-minute tape recording during the Watergate scandal on a combination of hums from the electric typewriter and the Tensor lamp of Rose Mary Woods, President Richard M. Nixon’s secretary. Mr. Monroe, whose engineering sophistication extended to complicated weapons systems, doubted that claim, his wife said."
Well Monroe's innovative Tensor light shines on at the BCP desk. Thanks to my fitting of an LED array as a replacement bulb it does so more efficiently than at any time in it's life. It now uses less than 1 watt instead of the previous 14 watts with an incandescent bulb.
More BCP energy saving projects are coming. Keep checking into BCP for the latest energy improvements.
"Jay Monroe, an engineer whose wife’s discontent over the strong light he needed for bedtime reading provoked him to invent a high-intensity, low-voltage mini lamp whose use spread to desks, jewelers’ worktables, limousines and far beyond, died on June 12 at his home in Sands Point, N.Y. He was 80.
His wife, Barbara, said he shot himself after he and his doctor had discussed the possibility that he had cancer.
Mr. Monroe created the Tensor lamp, then manufactured and sold it. The small, skinny lamp focused a narrow cone of high-intensity white light, making shapes, colors and objects appear sharper to the eye. Its first users were professionals like doctors and dentists, then older people and others with weak vision. It soon became an American staple, a lamp that students took to college, couples installed on each side of the bed and stamp collectors adored."-New York Times
The Tensor light even showed up as part of the excuse for the 18 minute gap in the Watergate tapes.
"Most notoriously, in 1973, White House officials attributed the deletion of part of a critical 18-minute tape recording during the Watergate scandal on a combination of hums from the electric typewriter and the Tensor lamp of Rose Mary Woods, President Richard M. Nixon’s secretary. Mr. Monroe, whose engineering sophistication extended to complicated weapons systems, doubted that claim, his wife said."
Well Monroe's innovative Tensor light shines on at the BCP desk. Thanks to my fitting of an LED array as a replacement bulb it does so more efficiently than at any time in it's life. It now uses less than 1 watt instead of the previous 14 watts with an incandescent bulb.
More BCP energy saving projects are coming. Keep checking into BCP for the latest energy improvements.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Al Gore can kiss my....
I'm still scratching my head after hearing the announcement that Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize for his Power Point presentation about global warming. I'm all for the environment and for what each of us can to protect and preserve it. But, does Gore deserve a Noble Peace Prize? I think not. What's that smell? Hmmm smells like hypocrisy.
While the left goes crazy over the new environmental rock star status of Gore following the Oscars and now the Nobel Peace Prize. The right as expected is on the attack. I have to agree with them on this one. They are quite rightly (no pun intended) exposing the hypocrisy of political elites like Gore. Though he is looked upon as a champion of the environment his house and lifestyle raises a lot of questions. His 10,000 square foot naturally gas heated home uses 20 times the natural gas and 12 times the electrcity of the average American home. While his press people try and spin that the home is also used for Al and Tipper Gore's office. Uh huh.
As the Gore's paid spinster pushed it:
Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said: “Sometimes when people don’t like the message, in this case that global warming is real, it’s convenient to attack the messenger.”
No Krieder it's not that people don't like the message. It's that people don't like the hypocrisy!
The left is trying to circle the wagons on this false face of Gore including left leaning media henchmen like Keith Olbermann by saying Gores 20 room house is justified and "green" because the Gores pay an extra $423 dollars extra for energy provided from "green" sources. Oh please what B.S. They conveniently ignore that since the Gore's are operating a business from their home this of course becomes tax deductible. Unlike many of us middle class homeowners and others struggling to pay our bills who pay full freight for our energy use.
An even more disturbing revelation for me. Is that when you compare the homes of George W. Bush and Al Gore. Bush's home looks a lot greener than Gore's.
While the left continues to ignore the hypocrisy of Al Gore and his energy use. They lambasted the right for exposing it. But, I think the right have done the public a service. No Al Gore is not a victim. I think the Nobel Prize should have been awarded to someone who REALLY walks the walk not just gives the talk on energy conservation. Yes the real victim and the guy who should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize is ED BEGLEY Jr. A real hero of the earth. As for Al Gore he can kiss my carbon footprint!
While the left goes crazy over the new environmental rock star status of Gore following the Oscars and now the Nobel Peace Prize. The right as expected is on the attack. I have to agree with them on this one. They are quite rightly (no pun intended) exposing the hypocrisy of political elites like Gore. Though he is looked upon as a champion of the environment his house and lifestyle raises a lot of questions. His 10,000 square foot naturally gas heated home uses 20 times the natural gas and 12 times the electrcity of the average American home. While his press people try and spin that the home is also used for Al and Tipper Gore's office. Uh huh.
As the Gore's paid spinster pushed it:
Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said: “Sometimes when people don’t like the message, in this case that global warming is real, it’s convenient to attack the messenger.”
No Krieder it's not that people don't like the message. It's that people don't like the hypocrisy!
The left is trying to circle the wagons on this false face of Gore including left leaning media henchmen like Keith Olbermann by saying Gores 20 room house is justified and "green" because the Gores pay an extra $423 dollars extra for energy provided from "green" sources. Oh please what B.S. They conveniently ignore that since the Gore's are operating a business from their home this of course becomes tax deductible. Unlike many of us middle class homeowners and others struggling to pay our bills who pay full freight for our energy use.
An even more disturbing revelation for me. Is that when you compare the homes of George W. Bush and Al Gore. Bush's home looks a lot greener than Gore's.
While the left continues to ignore the hypocrisy of Al Gore and his energy use. They lambasted the right for exposing it. But, I think the right have done the public a service. No Al Gore is not a victim. I think the Nobel Prize should have been awarded to someone who REALLY walks the walk not just gives the talk on energy conservation. Yes the real victim and the guy who should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize is ED BEGLEY Jr. A real hero of the earth. As for Al Gore he can kiss my carbon footprint!
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