Frugal Solar ?

 

If you are making improvements in your home consider the Sun.
Maybe adding some double pane windows?
Make the ones facing South larger. Maybe eliminate windows in the North
or reduce their size?
Adding insulation is always a good idea. Lots of foam is free for the
hauling.
Good Luck and...
Let the Sun Shine In.

 

wrote:


Good advice.
Keep it coming
Here's something that saved us money.
We drink a lot of coffee and were buying liquid Cremora.
I don't want any arguments about that.
That's what we like.
You want to argue, go argue about omelettes.
Price kept going up and soon we were spending 10 bucks a week on the
stuff.  
Wife is cook, so she bought a case of the powder mix they use in the
corp cafeteria for the non-dairy creamer.  Almost the same taste as
the liquid Cremora.
You mix in hot water, then cold, then refrigerate.  
She was skeptical about it lasting, but a 1/2 gallon pitcher has never
gone bad on us.  1/2 gallon liquid is the result size of the
individual packets.
Cost is now maybe 2 bucks a week for coffee creamer.
That's a +400 a year savings.  +$16,000 for 40 years.
You might have to ask around to find a source, but it's doable.
For 16 grand, it's worth it.
Gordon is her cafeteria supplier.
I suspect most cafeteria managers will do this for their customers if
you sweet talk them and have the cash to keep their books balanced.
Just a tick on the order sheet for them.  
 
--Vic

 

Vic Smith wrote:

Bubble wrap is cheap and effective if you don't need transparency.
Otherwise heat shrink film or mylar. I'm experimenting with home made
double panes, I'll probably stack them. At any rate, regular windows
lose a lot of heat.


Until you get into higher R value windows, heat loss almost always
exceeds heat gain. 10 SF of single pane (~R1) will lose 7200 BTU/day if
it 30 degrees colder outside but gain only ~ 2400 BTUs. Break even is
probably about R3. Low e glass can cut heat gain though. There is a lot
to be said for sunshine though.

Maybe eliminate windows in the North

Areas that have little insulation benefit dramatically with quick
payback. Adding to existing insulation is much less dramatic.

   Jeff

 

Vic Smith wrote


MUCH more frugal to give up on that crap completely and drink water out of the
tap instead.

 

Some gutless fuckwit desperately cowering behind



Yes, It's the "frugal" newsgroup, not the "MUCH" more frugal
newsgroup, fuckwit.

Reams of puerile shit any 2 year old could leave for dead flushed
where  it belongs.