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What is a Home Energy Audit?

Sun, 01/13/2013 - 12:03 -- Chris

A key step to understanding how you use energy in your home is doing a home energy audit.  An energy audit usually means you walk through your home and analyze all the systems that impact how you use energy.  There are two ways to approach a home energy audit: finding a professional or doing your own.

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What is Color Temperature?

Sun, 12/30/2012 - 19:06 -- Chris

Put simply, color temperature is the color of light that comes out of a light bulb.  It is given on the product packaging as a number with the units of Kelvin, K.  The lower the number, the more red or orange (usually defined as warm) the light appears and the higher the number the bluer the light appears (usually defined as cool). 

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