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Welcome to the Electricity Is In The News! online research center. Below are some links that will help you to learn more about energy efficiency in your home and community. Some links will be better for you than others, so make sure to pick your sources of information carefully.

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Keeping Food Cold

Check out some of these links. How can people use less energy to keep food cold?

General

Using a Refrigerator

Buying a Refrigerator

Standards

Manufacturer's Web Sites

Keeping Food Safe

New Ways to Insulate Refrigerators

Good place to begin:

http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/publications/infosource/pub/home/Buying_and_Using_EE_Appliances_Section01.cfm

An excellent publication from Natural Resources Canada. It gives advice on both buying and using refrigerators.

Refrigerators & Freezers

http://www.aceee.org/consumerguide/topfridge.htm

High-Efficiency Refrigerators

http://www.toolbase.org/Technology-Inventory/Appliances/high-efficiency-refrigerators

Refrigerators

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=refrig.pr_refrigerators

Monitoring Refrigerator Energy Usage

http://homeenergy.org/archive/hem.dis.anl.gov/eehem/00/000514.html

More experiments to find out why refrigerators sometimes use more (or less) energy than their ratings say they will.

Out with the Old, In with the New: Why Refrigerator and Room Air Conditioner Programs Should Target Replacement to Maximize Energy Savings. Why replacing old refrigerators saves so much energy.

www.nrdc.org/air/energy/appliance/app1.pdf

Good place to begin:

Lowering Your Refrigerator Energy Usage

http://www.earth911.org/master.asp?s=lib&a=Energy/Conservation/FlexYourPower/flexyourpower.html

http://www.tnpe.com/nm/energy.asp

Refrigerator/Freezer Energy Tips

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/tips/refrigerators.html

Good place to begin:

Top-Rated Energy-Efficient Appliances

http://aceee.org/consumerguide/topfridge.htm

How to Buy an Energy Efficient Refrigerator

http://www.srpnet.com/energy/refrig.aspx

Refrigerator Efficiency Recommendation

http://www.eere.energy.gov/femp/procurement/eep_crf.cfm

The government's recommendations for its own purchases of refrigerators.

Super-Efficient Home Appliances: Refrigerators

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=refrig.pr_refrigerators

Click on product search, purchasing tips and product list in the right hand column.

Buying a New Refrigerator.

http://aceee.org/consumerguide/fridge.htm

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/home/appliances/refrigerators.html

Be sure to follow the links to models.

Good place to begin:

Appliance Efficiency Standards: A Great Untold Success Story of Energy Policy

www.standardsasap.org/refrigerator.htm

How standards passed by states and the national government improved refrigerators.

Good place to begin:

Amana

Frigidaire

GE Appliances

RealGoods (a distributor of refrigerators intended to be run on renewable energy sources)

Maytag

Whirlpool

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Other

This fast-growing category includes energy uses from cooking to computing.

General

Phantom Load

Cooking

Dishwashers

Computers

Aquariums

General

Compact fluorescent lamps

Torchieres

New Technologies

Light

Check out some of these links. How can people use less electricity for lighting?

Hot Water

Check out some of these links. How can people use less energy to heat water?

General

Using Hot Water

Buying a Water Heater

Manufacturer's Web Sites

Clothes Washers

General

Using a Refrigerator

Buying a Refrigerator

Standards

Manufacturer's Web Sites

Keeping Food Safe

New Ways to Insulate Refrigerators

Keeping Food Cold

Check out some of these links. How can people use less energy to keep food cold?

Heating and Cooling

Check out some of these links. How can people use less energy to keep their homes warm (or cool)?

Insulation

Radiant barriers

Ducts

Windows

Infiltration

Buying a furnace

Using a furnace

Heat Pumps

Cooling

Whole house fan

Buying and using an air conditioner

Good place to begin:

Refrigeration and Food Safety

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Refrigeration_&_Food_Safety/index.asp

Advice from the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture

How Temperatures Affect Food

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/How_Temperatures_Affect_Food.pdf

Good place to begin:

Aerogels

Aerogel Research at LBL: From the Lab to the Marketplace.

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/aerogel-insulation.html

Aerogels

http://eande.lbl.gov/ECS/aerogels/satoc.htm

A comprehensive picture of aerogels. A few parts are very technical, but there's a lot for everyone. An award-winning page.

STARDUST Technologies: Aerogel

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/aerogel.html

This page is about how NASA uses aerogels to catch comet dust, but there is a lot of information about the aerogel itself.

Aspen Aerogels, Inc.

http://www.aerogel.com

This is the homepage of a company that manufactures aerogels.Gas Filled Panels

Gas Filled Panels

http://gfp.lbl.gov/

Be sure to check out the links in the menu on the left side of the screen.

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