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Save Energy While You Drink Tea

Save Energy While You Drink Tea

If you use your stove-top to boil water for tea (or coffee), you are using more energy than you need. All the moreso if you are making just one cup at a time. I'm not a big one for pushing a particular product by a particular manufacturer, but when there's one that's...

Save Money With Your Air Conditioner

Save Money With Your Air Conditioner

So, here in SW Virginia, we're just starting our first really warm week. Summer has perhaps finally arrived. And with that comes that heavy energy load we lovingly call Air Conditioners. Now if you live in a very dry part of the country, what I'm going to say here...

Do I really need to change my furnace filter?

Do I really need to change my furnace filter?

The short answer is YES, do it. Every month is good, or at least whenever it starts to get clogged up with dirt and pet hair. Studies have shown that changing your filter does not improve the efficiency of your furnace (although that still seems wrong to me). What...

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