Wind Power: Part 1

GREEN HOME SHOW #16: Wind Power: Part 1 Saving energy

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Overall Segment #1 – 9:00

Music & Introduction (Doug) – 2:30

Introduction –

Good morning Delaware Valley and welcome to the Great Green Home Show, your one-stop shop to learn how to save money while also reducing your carbon footprint by using technology, conservation and education. We like to deliver this information through a combination of interesting guests, helpful tips and to-do lists, local and global “green” news items and humorous skits with some colorful, recurring characters.

I’m Doug Hunt, and next to me is the creator of the GGHS, Paul Hughes. Good morning Paul, how was your week? Anything special happen? Anything particularly green go on?

Paul – Yeah I played a lot of tennis and the weather was great,.....Also we have been working on Green programs designed for Families and we are hoping to have all our Green to-do lists ready, and the green fox neighborhood website designs finished......We will alert you as to when and where right now looks like the Public Libraries will be first. How about you Dougie boy how was your week...Doug – Answer Paul’s questions and segue to…

Today’s show is all about Wind power. This should be of interest to anyone who is living in our area... if you haven’t been following Bluewater Wind, NRG and Delmarva.....you are missing the battle for the future of energy production and consumption .....IN Fact Today’s guest (;-) Our guest today is Peter Mandelstam, the President of Bluewater Wind, and he’s going to talk us about what wind can do for us, how it works, how much power we can expect to get, what it should cost and more. But before we can start, we’d like to thank our sponsors… Paul?

Thanks to our sponsors – Suntrust Mortgage, CMI Electric, Energy Services Group, Myecoagent.com and Option Insurance Group. Also, Mark Unruh for the great music…. and listen to Scott Birney’s program on WVUD - 91.3 FM on Fridays ...we’ll be on as his guests in about 3 weeks....might even play a tune or two.....you know Doug here has one heck of a singing voice. So let’s move on to today’s show… but first…Doug... Protect us...

Today’s Green Tips (Paul) – 6:00 Sponsored by: Suntrust Mortgage of Christiana

Today’s topic: Things you can do to lower your electric bill and reduce consumption of energy to help save money and energy, Talk about the lists that are coming....Us

The List:

1. On demand hot water....high efficiency and insulated wrap...lower temp..120 ok
2. high effiency windows and insulation in walls
3. Dishwasher with full load...hand wash when you can..
4. wash in cold water...
5. Clean and replace all air/furnace filters
6. low flow shower heads use less hot water
7. Energy Audit
8. energy efficient appliances when you replace them
9. Programmable thermostats for heat, hot water....
10. heaters in rooms and lower house heat
11. Buy wind power or RECs from any sustainable technology
12. cut back your road trips car pool,
13. take a day off from driving,
14. have the kids play close to home, organize the kids sports around a community team with a practice field close enough to walk to or ride a bike to.