Hot water facts

Energy guzzler. Water heating is the second largest energy user in the average home. Only central air conditioning uses more energy.

History. Miami had 60,000 solar water heaters during the 1940s. What happened? Really cheap electricity and utility company “All-Electric Living” promotions. Some utility companies gave away electric water heaters, just to get homeowners to switch from natural gas.

Carbon bigfoot. Everyone is concerned about their carbon “footprint” these days. Well, a home water heater’s carbon footprint is a whopper.

How big, you ask? Using electricity from an electric utility powerplant to heat 80 gallons of water from 72°F to 140°F each day for one year sends almost four tons of carbon dioxide[1] emissions into Earth’s atmosphere. Yes, really.

How many have a solar AC and if not, why not?

After 4 years of development, California based company SoCool will launch the Millennia version 4 hybrid solar air conditioner. The air conditioner runs on solar panels, or a wall socket, or batteries. It’s designed to cool a large room while substantially lowering electricity costs according to the company. The unit operates at a maximum of 500 watts, which is much than half what typical air conditioning units use. If using batteries, the unit can last up to 24 hours depending on battery size. Priced between $2,600 and $3,000 before installation (approximately $500), the SoCool Millennia includes two-gallon water tank to store cooled water. See also: SolCool: A Solar Air Conditioner :: Via News.Com

List Price $87,752.60

Sale Price
$58,306.00

(Price Before Discounts, Rebates And Tax Credit)

Purchase your system before February 28th 2009, then subtract the limited time SolarGreenBacksTM $400.00 per PTC kilowatt supplemental cash rebate offer and your price is reduced to:

$54,782.74

Apply the new 30% Federal tax credit with no cap and your final system cost can be as low as :*

$38,347.92

There’s also a cash rebate of up to $4,400.00 per DC kilowatt available which varies by capacity, applicant type and rebate “adders”. Maximum incentive is based on 5 kW for residential systems and 500 kW DC for non-residential systems. Click here for more information.

If this system is being used for a commercial application then you may qualify for the Federal income tax credit of up to 30% with no maximum and a 5 year depreciation schedule.

This system can eliminate up to 21,600 pounds of carbon dioxide per year when compared to a typical coal fired power plant.

So maybe we should take all the money we have wasted on the stimulus plan, the bank bailout, the Fannie and Freddie scandals, and our new cap and trade legislation and use it to purchase this AC unit for all Americans. Then we could just shut down all the coal fired power plants.

Oh, I’m selling these and will be happy to take your order….remember you get a tax rebate to offset the cost.

PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS?????? Yeah, thats what I thought.

The thing these pollution mongers don’t stop to think about is how their desire for MORE, their desire to do less to get it, their desire to have ALL of the latest and greatest and fastest and most powerful is killing us. They believe it is their RIGHT to have these thing. They believe that their right to have supersedes my right to health.

Don’t live in the now – live in the longg term

Strange how ALL the planets in our solar system have heated up almost exactly the same amount.

Have you actually read those reports, warming is only occurring on 6-9 planets, planetoids, plutons and major asteroids. Cooling is taking place on another 8. And the other 80 don’t seem to be impacted at all. As for the regular planets Uranus isn’t warming it’s cooling, I have no idea why. Venus, not warming and it’s closer to the Sun. Mars, warming, but it’s spin which impacts warming/cooling trends is going erratic. Erratic spin will increase or decrease temp according to our understanding of it. Pluto- we only have two days of data for pluto something like 14 years apart. So we’re not even sure if we got Pluto one time in summer and the other time in winter. We do know that Neptune is warming but we also know neptune is entering into what we on earth would call summer. It will continue to warm for another 30 or forty years until it hits Autumn. Jupiter isn’t really impacted by the sun to begin with and gets most of its heat internally, so any trend can be easily discounted as strictly Jupiters trend. Solar activity still impacts it but here’s where the argument regarding this makes people who cite “warming trends on planets outside of our own” as factors against anthropogenic causes. The sun only impacts it when there is a greater amount of surface visible greenhouse gas like CO2 or methane, in other words, increased greenhouse gases impact temperature, which is the argument climate change people here on earth keep saying. It is so unlike the rest of the solar bodies that it’s hard to determine whether a cooling trend will be seen on both us and Jupiter anyways or if we really matter in its trends. Triton’s warming but it is approaching an extreme summer at the lowest southern it gets, which makes it have higher heat. And the studies that discuss solar changes all point out over the last thirty years we should have been cooling or at least staying at a norm since solar activity has not changed, instead we were warming. It’s true we did have a cooling year this year but we are also at a solar minimum. think of how it will feel when we hit that actual maximum in 2 years, which I believe NASA says will produce a solar storm (my predictions of 35 named storms is still standing). But not to worry increased storms are a good thing as increased storm fronts decrease CO2. It will help us deplete some of the excess.

As for the rest of the global warming debate: who knows? All I know is that I am tired of hearing the debate about CO2 and would like to discuss other pollution problems that impact us more. For instance, in an area that has 4 times the amount of fatal cancers, childhood autism, and infant mortality we have ten times the amount of lethal products in our air than anywhere else, beyond the acceptable or perceived acceptable standard. Climate debate is just a way to get out of discussing the bigger question of pollution

I guess those coal companies have robots working for them? The economies of the town in Missouri probably have nothing to do with coal. Wake up! She is looking after her constituency! You are putting your values on her and the people she is fighting for.

Sad really. Freedom is dying in this country.

OOPS! This was my part of the post lol!

Once we cross that critical threshold, there is no going back. Many of you will continue to believe what Limpbaugh and Boehner say. Keep your heads in the sand and ignore the facts.

As a baby boomer, I and everyone in my generation have the responsibility to stop this dangerous path we selected of instant gratification and profit.

Wake up damn it before it’s too late.

Strange how ALL the planets in our solar system have heated up almost exactly the same amount. Just imagine, this is probably due to solar maximums, which if taken into account, blows the global warming theory out of the water! C02 content may be going up, but we are actually starting a cooling period on lil ol earth. If anyone says global warming is man made, perhaps they should stop driving their big SUV`s on the other 8 planets!

When she won her seat in the senate, she ran against Jim Talent who was nothing more than a stooge for Bush. She is better, but I hope there is a better choice the next time she runs so I can vote for them.

Actually what we have, Tim, are coal fired electric plants that have never stopped pouring billions of tons of CO2 into the air. They don’t have the technology to stop it. They claim that coal is “clean” because they capture the particulates, or ash, in smoke stack scrubbers before the hot smoke is released. They take that ash and pour it into water pools called impoundments that they dig on whatever land is available, sometimes near streams so that the polluting ash can seep into the water, and sometimes the ash dams burst causing an ecological catastrophe and either injuring or endangering human life. Many of these dams have not been inspected in 20 years.

The coal fired smoke that is still released into the atmosphere has the ash removed so that it is invisible and appears to be “clean” when in reality not one pound of CO2 is removed. “Clean coal” is a lie.

Ron Paul is a Libertarian. I’m not a libertarian.

Since you are so F#@*ing smart, dipstick, please tell me who my “dear leader” is.

If you can’t stand the heat GET OUT of the Kitchen.

Are you aware of the percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere? It’s about 2.5%

Are you aware of the amount of CO2 that we add to that 2.5%? About .11 percent

Just a question: are you old enough to remember the global COOLING scare? I am and the current hysteria has exactly the same trappings.

Further, have you done any reading with respect to the effect the Sun has on our climate?

Have you read the well-researched book “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 10,000 Years” ?