Summary: Green technology are popping up everywhere today, but someone might think that these solutions still cost a fortune and make increase the daily

I know, today it’s hard to see money leave your pocket, but if you know as to move right with new green technology, you can make your home an Earth-friendly place to live.

The two factors when it comes to use solar panel to your home are location and current energy costs:

Make your part to save the planet - The federal government is offering incentive packages(30% tax credit on three types of systems).

Solar energy panels will all earn you a 30% credit on your taxes. 1000KWH per month at a $200 cost can save you up to $50 per month when you install and use solar panels that provide 250KWH of electricity per month.

But like someone already said, return on investment is an important factor when it comes to buy a solar panel. It’s actually quite easy to calculate the return on investment for a solar panel purchase, assuming that you have some key information. Here’s how. I think once these technologies get a bit cheaper, we should see it get more popular.

Solar panels are not the only way to go –  Solar heated water is another choice. Water heating, commonly produced by electricity, makes up roughly a fourth of the total energy needs for a normal single-family home.

Here are some typical costs for various tank water heaters. Anyway, do not assume these numbers are valid for your particular situation. Remember that everyone’s situation is different.

You can get a better estimate of your savings by using a solar energy calculator and find the solar cost and size of a solar energy project in your area. This will gives you a rough estimates on how much carbon emissions your current electricity usage contributes to our Earth’s global warming and tell you how much you can save today by installing solar panels and solar water heating systems.

If you want to check into a solar water heating system instead, you’ll want to check a solar water heating calculator. It’s hard to see money leave your pocket, but done right, living green can put more in your wallet, every single month.

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Summary: 3D Printing is an exciting and relatively new field of making things. This method let anyone to print a lot of cool 3D-printed objects in short time, but have you ever thought to print a whole house?

I have already discussed in a recent article about this new technology and how it could ruin your business. Here’s the full article. Anyway, today I want to highlight as it might help you save money and material over subtractive manufacturing techniques in which material is cut, drilled, or shaved off, as very little raw material is wasted.

In particular what UK design firm 00:/ recently showed visitors to Milan’s most famous department store how to construct a wooden house from a downloaded kit of parts.

The WikiHouse is an open-source platform that allows designers from all over the world to design, download and share housing templates that can then be printed using a CNC milling machine or 3D printer.

As you can see, you no need for bolts or screws in order to slot together. WikiHouse operates under the creative commons license, so anyone is free to share solutions widely and based on their unique climatic conditions. 

If you want know more about their earlier story about it go here, or click here to watch the interview with curator Beatrice Galilee. If you want start building this structure yourself, you can use the template, you can find directly here.

Once the structure is erected, it is ready for insulation, cladding, sealing and services. If you want to design and share your own wooden home, check out the WikiHouse website, they have an active community that is growing every day.

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Summary: We’re big fans of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the author of The Predictioneer’s Game, a book about using game theory to get what you want in day-to-day life.

Game theory is a method of studying strategic decision making, that is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic and biology.

People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. The idea behind this method is to let local dealers compete with one another on price in an open marketplace.

The book is intended to help people take decision when it comes to predict and engineer the future. Look at this short video explaining how to use these ideas to buy a new car.

Here are the basics of Mesquita’s method:

So let me lay out how to buy a car. It’s very easy. Figure out exactly which car you want to buy, make, color if it matters to you, options and so forth. Then do not go to a dealership. Let your fingers do the walking. Telephone all of the dealers who sell the vehicle you’re interested in who are, say, within a 50 mile radius, a 25 mile radius, 75, however far you’re willing to go.

To each of them make the same statement: “Hi, my name is so and so. I plan to buy such and such a car today at 5pm. I’m going to buy it from the dealer who gives me the best price. What is your best price?”

That is an awesome strategy and well worth utilizing. This technique was already mentioned in this video below. It’s a  about how to buy a new car without getting screwed. The idea is the same as Mesquita’s.

I wonder if this could work for used cars? We are planning to buy a new to us car later this year or early next year but there are so many variables with used cars (mileage, condition, model etc) that it would be hard to employ a tactic like this.

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