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Going Solar! (Original Post) liberal N proud Aug 2017 OP
Way to go! I'm not that ambitious... yet. But... Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #1
i remember the oil embargo days when diy home plastic on windows stuff was all the rage dembotoz Sep 2017 #2

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
1. Way to go! I'm not that ambitious... yet. But...
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 03:57 PM
Aug 2017

I'm seriously thinking about setting up enough solar to charge my cell phone. That's a small start anyway.
Maybe next year I'll try charging my electric bicycle with solar. Small steps.

dembotoz

(16,784 posts)
2. i remember the oil embargo days when diy home plastic on windows stuff was all the rage
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 11:09 AM
Sep 2017

i worked for a cap agency with a home weatherization dept that put up sort of removable rigid plastic storm windows on the inside i think... of the house that was supposed to do great things

folks still do that sort of stuff or do we just use our furnaces to heat the great outside now?....(i live north so keeping warm more of an issue than keeping cool)

i do keep plastic over the sliding glass door that has not been opened in over 25 years.....

nobody seems to talk about this stuff anymore

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