Sunday, September 4, 2011

Carbon Footprint 1/3 of the average Florida Home

Let alone the saved energy and cost, our home Carbon Footprint is now almost a 1/3 of the average Florida home.


The recent savings hands-down goes to our "emonitor". It's  ability to inform us how to optimize and make adjustments to our energy usage, then with a little tweaking get some pretty darn good results.
Another factor worth consideration is that when we are ready to go to PV (solar panels) or the thin film variety our overall Square Footage requirement will be considerably lower... hence less cost. Bonus!

For some feedback our home is just under 2,000 sq ft of air conditioned space with a Great Room, lots of sliders and a 19.2 SEER dual scroll A/C (which I highly recommend) with a heat exchanger to capture a fair bit of the heat and put it into our Hot Water. We don't have a Solar Hot Water Heater.

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