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6.24.2011

Spray Foam Insulation Estimating Tips

While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows.  I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff.

Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant
Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1)
20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9
20 (567) Gun 8-11
24.5 (695) Reusable Straw 8-11
24.5 (695) Gun 11-14

(1) Average-sized windows (36" x 60" [0.9 m x 1.5 m), gap 3/8" [10 mm] wide and 1" [25 mm] deep)


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6.22.2011

Energy Plan Live-Chat-Sen Lugar’s Sen Adviser N Brown on Facebook


First for Facebook, First for Energy

Jun 22, 2011 Office of Senator Dick Lugar

On Wednesday, June 22, 2010, we are extremely excited about a first for the Senate and a first for Facebook – the start of a rollout of legislation exclusively via Facebook.

Beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern) tomorrow we'll host a Practical Energy Plan Live-Chat with Senator Lugar's Senior Adviser Neil Brown on Facebook.

This is an exciting piece of Dick Lugar's introduction of his Practical Energy Plan on Facebook. Folks will be able to comment on the live-stream and Neil Brown will answer questions regarding Senator Lugar's upcoming legislation.

As Hoosiers continue to integrate new media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter into their lives, Senator Lugar is connecting more Hoosiers directly with the legislative process.

In the next week, Senator Lugar will continue to engage his Facebook and Twitter followers in polls, questions, and notes regarding this legislation. In an intimate press conference next week, Senator Lugar will introduce the legislation and live-stream the moment solely to his Facebook friends.

To participate in this 'first-of-its-kind' event, you must "like" Senator Lugar's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/senatorlugar and watch for the link for our live stream beginning at 6:30 p.m. Eastern.



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Reducing the Need to Build NEW Power Plants

  • report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels
  • national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress
  • ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals))

U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility bills

Jun 20, 2011 USA Today

As Congress remains in gridlock, U.S. states are taking the lead in energy efficiency. New research shows 26 now have rules that are lowering utility bills for consumers and reducing the need to build new power plants.

From 2004 to 2010, 24 states followed the lead of Texas and Vermont in adopting an Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS), which require utilities to save a certain amount of power each year, according to the first progress report of states that have had such rules for at least two years. The policies require that the savings outweigh the costs.

"These states are demonstrating that energy efficiency programs deliver real savings for utilities and ratepayers, and it is more affordable than any supply-side energy source," said report author Michael Sciortino of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a Washington-based research group.

The report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels. For example, in 2009 and 2010, it says Ohio utility customers saved $56 million in energy costs over and above the costs to deliver the programs.

"As a comprehensive national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress, states are taking action to show how bold energy efficiency policies can benefit residential, commercial, and industrial consumers," said Steven Nadel, the group's executive director, in a statement.

The report found that 13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals, three states are reaching more than 90%, and the three states falling below 80% are working hard to catch up. It espects more savings from state EERS, since most targets increase over the next decade.

Nadel's group also released a second report analyzing the efforts of six states with some of the largest and most successful energy efficiency programs in the United States: California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and Vermont. It also looks at the efforts of six other states with simpler but cost-effective efforts: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.



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6.21.2011

Climate Change Evidence view your location on the map

explore the signs of global warming on this map or Google Earth. The evidence of climate change includes heat waves, sea-level rise, flooding, melting glaciers, earlier spring arrival, coral reef bleaching, and the spread of disease.

The greatest concentration of global warming indicators on the map is in North America and Europe because that is where most scientific investigation has been done to date. As scientists focus increasingly on fingerprints of global warming in other regions—from Russia to Antarctica and Oceania to South America—the evidence they find will be added to the map.

Scientists project that unless emissions of heat-trapping gases are brought undercontrol, the impacts of climate change are likely to increase

check out the Interactive Map: http://www.climatehotmap.org/ or http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html

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