So how is my restoration of the family's old house going along?
I am saving energy and saving money, lots of it.
Here you see how much energy savings remain with effective pay back periods.
You can also see at what point saving energy becomes too expensive.
That is when other aspects of sustainability, solar energy, wind energy, buying green energy, bio-mass generator, shrinking the building, changing occupancy - probably increasing it, terra - forming by cutting trees to increase solar gain, planting trees and vines to decrease solar gain, offsetting carbon use sponsoring an acre of rainforest, the options are endless.
For the quick and easy energy modeling used in these calculations, click here. If you like it, you can download the spreadsheet!
