Solar power production and payback calculator
BP Solar Clean Power Estimator Example
Recovery through Retrofit: The U.S. plan for Home Efficiency
Sustainable Issues: Triple Pundit post on Microlending
While the main focus of the Mapawatt Blog is on personal home energy and water conservation, occasionally you may notice a blog on general sustainable issues. The goal here is to help you learn more about sustainability in hopes that you can apply some of those things to your daily life. Every once in a while I also blog for the sustainable business blog, Triple Pundit.
Sustainability update from the West coast
I'm traveling this week out in SF/Napa valley area and I just wanted to throw in a few observations:
TED 5000 and Google PowerMeter on iGoogle is Live
Google PowerMeter iGoogle
List of Energy monitoring tools : devices, software and home automation
Home Energy Monitors
Sustainable living in real life - Guy Marsden
Guy with Solar Panels
Best lighting cost comparison: Incandescent, CFL, LED
LED, Incandescent, CFL
GE Smart Grid Augmented Reality
I've covered the smart grid before - with the basic blog What is this Smart Grid thing and Smart Grid and buildings - but no resource on the web covers the Smart Grid in a vaguer, yet more entertaining way than GE. As part of
State Solar Power report card
One of the best blogs I've found focused solely on Solar power on the residential/commercial scale is SolarPowerRocks.com. These guys provide excellent information targeted for each state. Recently they came out with a 2009 State by State report card that grades states on how well they are adopting solar power.
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