7: Space and Water heating – part 1 of 2
A start at a detailed look at space and water heating and the distribution of heat.
Archive for August, 2010
Establishing energy saving priorities
So far in the discussion we have looked at several things that could be done and the ranges of levels of possible improvement that could be achieved. Now it is time to start to focus in where the real effort (and budget) should be placed. It’s time to establish a priority order and a good […]
Water usage
One item not on the headline list is water usage reduction largely because, apart from heating, the energy demand is minimal. But water saving measures are still a good thing to attempt, provding the cost is also minimal.
Calculating energy savings with U values – an approximation
Calculating timber underfloor insulation payback
Low energy lighting considerations – Part 3 of 3
In Part 1 we looked at the options for improving the energy efficiency of the current lighting. In Part 2 we examined the options in more details and came to the conclusion that the only real option was to change to either fluorescent tubes or compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). In this section we look more […]