Talk:Energy Efficiency Reference/Residential/How to Reduce Energy Usage

Theinformation given makes no mention of solar heating to use the energy to feed back into the electricity grid,how can this comment be inserted into the energy debate.In Ausralia a country will plenty of sunlight feww home s have solar panels if this were compulsory Iwonder how much electricity could be fed into the electricity supply. Thanky ou harryhaber@hotmail,com

merging this wikibook
Would anyone be opposed to merging this book with the wikibook "Energy Efficiency Reference"?? I think this would allow for a much more robust wikibook to be created. Comments? --Michael Koch (talk) 08:05, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

moving this page
it would be more sensible to have this book's title changed from "How to reduce home energy costs" to "How to reduce home energy usage," as this encompasses positive environmental effects of reducing usage, as well as economic ones. if no one objects, this page should be moved. --- Edited - 03/10/06 *added/bolded two cautions of existing tips.

format and topics
This "book" is more of a checklist. The format should be changed, the elements expanded and explained, diagrams and photos added where appropriate, and similar items.

I would recommend going area by area, rather than as it is now. For example, a section could be on "central heating", another on "water", and another on "electricity" ...

Each element should be tested for relevance to the topic; many items are not. For example: How does buying bigger items help with home energy conservation? (answer: it doesn't ). Another example: how does recycling help with home energy conservation? (answer: it doesn't ).

Now if I just would have logged in first.... 69.95.160.14 16:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Domestic ventilation
Some of the advice given is unsound. If I understand correctly, using a fan to blow house air into the roofspace is OK. In the UK, this most certainly would not be OK. House air has a sufficiently high moisture content to cause loft ( roofspace) condensation, and indeed in the UK we seek to seal out the ceiling as much as possible. There are one or two exotic ventilation systems which supply air form the roof, but these are not in general use.

Modesty forbids me from referring readers to my book "Handbook of Domestic Ventilation" (Elsevier) for more detailed information........

Check the degrees celcius conversions. You're about 5 degrees off. 25.5C = 78F, not 30C.

Transwiki
This transwiki may yield useful content: Transwiki:Weatherization – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 05:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Fan in Reverse?!
What moron would run the fan in reverse to, as this entry says "move the air up to the ceiling."

The second the heat leaves the insert ... it's headed straight for the ceiling! Why on earth would you waste your time using a ceiling fan to do what its alreay doing?

You run the fan COUNTER CLOCKWISE to pull the heat down from the ceiling, dispersing it out and into other rooms.

This whole entry was written by someone pretending to have credentials which anyone with 2nd grade physics knowledge can spot.