Re: Basic Choices and Constraints on Long-Term Energy Supplies

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 07:55 AM 7/30/2004, Richard Tarara, you wrote in somber tones:

> Anecdotes about individual conservation methods or home built solar
> collectors are fairly useless in trying to plan for a population of 300
> million or more.  Most homes and businesses cannot be economically refitted
> to be 'green'

//

> Richard W. Tarara

Here's an anecdote intended to show that most homes - at least in
the Southern tier may become if not Green, at the least somewhat
queasy-colored.

Locate the cold feed water pipe to your water heater, gas or electrical.
Replace the pipe end with a tee and stop cock on the side branch,
an in line stop cock, and a second tee with a  stop cock in the side branch.

Take the two side branches to a pipe on a southern wall of the house
and array the longest length available to Sunlight.
Cost $40 plus Professorial labor to drill two holes in masonry and
 hang garden hose or etc.,. Payback? Possibly 11 months....
..if you have folks who shower each day in warm water.


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!