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Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, 8th Ed.
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by: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Jennifer Thorne, John Morrill, Alex Wilson
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Amazon.com
Alex Wilson and John Morrill have assembled a comprehensive guide to energy-saving techniques and devices with two goals in mind: save consumers money and save Earth in the process. Wilson and Morrill offer consumers the latest techniques for making their homes more efficient, comfortable, and cheaper to live in, and they supply energy ratings for appliances, light bulbs, water heaters, windows, heating systems, and more. The language is clear and entertaining; you needn't to be a technician or an engineer to understand the suggestions and analyses. Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings will prove incredibly useful for people who are about to build a home or remodel, or who simply want to get the most bang for their buck and not waste energy or foul the environment. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
An indispensible handbook for consumers who want to reduce their home energy use
Tips For Planet Earth
The most comprehensive guide to saving money and the environment available today
Popular Mechanics
Few books offer the potential to pay for themselves the way this one does. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Today's Homeowner, March 1997
The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings suffers from a modest title. The Guide reveals how to buy and operate just about everything in your house that's connected to an electric or gas meter. It also names names: it lists the brands and model names of the most efficient appliances currently available. What's more, the authors decipher the yellow "Energy Guide" label, tell how to quickly size up energy- efficiency claims and explain how homeowners can boost the energy efficiency of their home. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Energy efficiency pays. For over a decade, the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings has helped people who care about their budgets and about the environment to find energy-saving products. Inside this new, 8th edition, you'll find:
- Up-to-date lists of the most energy-efficient appliances and equipment by brand name and model number
- Tips, diagrams, charts and explanations on nearly every new facet of home energy use, including insulation, cooking, windows, laundry, lighting, food storage and heating and cooling systems.
- updated information on energy-efficiency appliance standards
- expanded information on ENERGYSTAR-labeled products, including new ones such as freezers and compact refrigerators PLUS, learn which investments in energy pay for themselves,why energy guide labels on appliances can be misleading, and how to save hundreds of dollars by buttoning up your house!
From the Publisher
Learn how to save hundreds of dollars by replacing your least efficient appliances and buttoning up your house! For over a decade, the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings has helped people who care about their budgets and about the environment to find energy-saving products. Now, with energy prices higher than ever, the ACEEE has released the 8th edition of its pennywise consumer report, The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings.
The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, 8th Edition is the ACEEE?s response to previously unanswered concerns surrounding rising energy prices, "greenwashed" labels and products that run by questionably energy efficient standards. With this Consumer Guide, readers will learn which investments in energy efficiency pay for themselves and why EnergyGuide labels on appliances can be misleading.
From insulation and lighting to laundry and food storage, energy efficiency pays. The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings will show you how to join the millions of consumers who are saving money while saving the earth. Reduce your energy bills and make a positive impact on national security, the economy, and the environment with all new listings of the most efficient products you can buy.
In this critical guide, authors Alex Wilson, Jennifer Thorne and John Morrill tackle the large-scale energy guzzlers like boilers and furnaces as well as the miscellaneous end users found on kitchen counter tops. Complete with home energy action checklists for long and short-term savings, The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings is the most comprehensive resource for homeowners and consumers interested in a more efficient lifestyle.
About the Author
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting both economic prosperity and environmental protection
Reviews:
Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings
If you want to replace your appliances in your home this is your book to find the most energy efficient products on the market. It rates the products as well as explaining how they work. Tons of information for the everyday consumer. We have used it to help us decide upon which kind of washer and dryer to buy as well as the installation of a heat pump, which replaced the 30 year old forced air furnace. It covers all the types of heating systems as well as cooling systems.
For the washer it compares vertical axis with horizonal axis right down to cost per load, electric and gas, wash and rinse cycle options and even laundry tips.
There is a whole chapter on lighting, both incandescent and compact florescent bulbs.
Hot water heaters are covered: gas or electric, storage types, demand, water pump, tankless, indirect and even solar. It discusses replacing and sizing water heaters for your home and how you use hot water, insulation and how to lower the water temperture. We went as far as to put a timer on our hot water heater so that it only heats water when we need it most, early morning for showers and evening for cooking and dishes.
It even covers windows, home insulation, energy audits and how to read the Energy Guide labels on all products.
We have found this book both informative and a keeper. We have had friends borrow it and some have even gone and purchased their own. This is our 2nd one, we almost wore out the first one which was the 7th edition. The new 8th edition brings us up to date. We gave the old one to friends who were happy to have it.
Practical energy savings information
This book covers both the house itself (insulation, windows, etc.) as well as appliances, furnaces, and lightbulbs. Written in 1999, it lists major appliances, windows, furnaces, boilers, and air conditioners by brand name and model number in table format showing the energy ratings of each one. This saves you the time of running around town or making dozens of phone calls to collect this info.
It also explains all the information contained on energy labels when you go shopping. In particular, I found the section on windows most beneficial. It details what tests are done to obtain the ratings, which tests are most relevant and which ratings you should pay particular attention to, as there are several ratings on each window.
It also was bold enough to say which things you should be spending your money on and which things are nice to have but not absolutely necessary.
