Solar Powered Air Conditioning

Using the sun to heat your hot water in the summer is probably the most sensible (and cost effective) place to trade off fossil fuel use for solar energy. It makes sense — the sun is out, it is bright and hot, why would you want to use oil or gas to heat water?

I [...]

Bravo EVT Electric Scooters

Bravo Scooter

Bravo EVT Electric Scooters

Take your commute carbon-free with an EVT Electric Scooter. A fully charged EVT Electric Scooter can provide about 30 miles of driving time on a full battery charge. Top speed is 30mph. No emissions, quiet ride.

Products

Appliances

Summit
Unique space saving designs come to life in these energy efficient and beautifully crafted tall (6′7″) and slim refrigerator-freezers. Energy Efficiency is built-into this manual-defrost system. Energy Star rating at 440kWh/year typical usage.

Fisher & Paykel Dishwashers
Years of research and refinement have created an appliance that offers a compelling blend of form and function. Each drawer [...]

15 Minutes of Fame

Valley News, Business

Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame. Opening an alternative energy store in Enfield, NH has provided me with my 15 minutes.

I am collecting the media clips on the ‘Press‘ page of this website and hoping that the links will remain for a [...]

Energy Conversions

Wood pile

If you have been thinking about replacing your current heating system or just trying to understand your current system better, you may want to compare it to alternative systems.

Let’s say you currently have a oil-burning furnace that supplies forced hot water through baseboard heaters. You have paid about 600 gallons of oil [...]

Third Generation Hybrid Cars

2010 Prius

Toyota and Honda have been making hybrid cars for a decade now and are coming out with the third generation. I was very excited in 2003 to find a slightly used Prius (2002) with only 10,000 miles on it. I bought it and I love it. Now it has 95,000 miles and is [...]

Seeing the future

Kent here with a guest posting.

Hologram from a credit card

I was at the MIT Media Lab yesterday. If you don’t know it, the Media Lab has for a couple of decades now been the place you go if you want to see into the future. For example, I saw a demonstration of a [...]

Solar Electricity and Solar Hot Water

Solar Hot Water Collector

Solar PV, Electric

Until you really stop to think about it, it is easy to confuse the different ways we use the sun to create energy today.

There are two popular ways to use the sun’s energy: one is to make electricity, and the other is to heat water. Of course there [...]

Pop the Cork! The store is open for business

Ribbon Cutting

After months of planning the opening day has finally come and gone. It was a fun day with good weather, balloons, speeches, barbeque, product demonstrations, family, friends and lots of guests.

We had speeches from NH State Senator Matthew Houde, NH Congressman Chuck Townsend, County Commissioner Mike Cryans, Enfield Selectman John Kluge, Enfield [...]

Grand Opening Tomorrow!

Grand Opening

Not much time for blogging today — its pretty crazy here! Just a quick list of all things that are going into the planning of the grand opening: