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Looking at the smallest system that would make an economic difference here at home.

My electric service is priced on tiers, with the baseline allocation at $ 0.12 /kwh. However, it turns out that I used 280 KwH that was priced at $ 0.29 or higher, some at $0.40/Kwh. When you see that this little peak was driving a big increase in the bill, it seemed logical to explore the smallest system that could make a difference. It turns out that a system that saves only 40% of the peak energy use would save %60 of the bill each month. Even more significant in winter.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Algae have great potential in the quest for biofuel, but the basic research needed to support the farming of algae is starving. Recently several start-up companies have failed, and energy research in this area is not funded at a level that will support the development of basic research and applied research.