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Home Energy Audit

URL: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002619.html

How much energy does your home consume? You can use tools like the Kill-a-Watt to check specific appliances, but that won't help you figure out if the aluminum windows, uninsulated water heater or aging dishwasher should be your first choice of replacement. Fortunately, the Lawrence Berkeley Labs has a useful tool online: the Home Energy Saver.

The HES is a website with a multiplicity of questions about your home's energy status. You can rely on averages or get extremely granular, as desired. The more detail you can give, the more accurate the results will be.

Each page of the audit gives you a session ID#, with the encouragement to write the number down. I'd second that encouragement -- there are so many questions that a browser crash, forcing you to re-enter all the answers, is more likely to make you give up in frustration. I know of which I speak...

(Posted by Jamais Cascio in QuickChanges at 06:22 PM)

Originally posted by Jamais Cascio from WorldChanging: Another World Is Here, ReBlogged by Gavin on May 1, 2005 at 05:40 PM

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