What's the Greenest Option for Home Heating?

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Heating with wood pellets, such as with this freestanding Quadrafire Mt. Vernon pellet stove at our own house, can be the greenest option, since wood pellets are a renewable heating fuel. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge.

I've always gotten a lot of questions from friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances about energy issues, and those questions picked up dramatically when I started writing this column two-and-a-half years ago.

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EonCoat – A Breakthrough Two-Part Corrosion-Resistant Ceramic Paint

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EonCoat is a two-part corrosion-resistant, ceramic paint that is highly durable, fireproof, and 100% VOC-free. Photo: EonCoat, LLC. Click on image to enlarge

The North Carolina company EonCoat, LLC, has just introduced a corrosion-resistant coating that appears to be a breakthrough product that could revolutionize the painting industry--and not just for specialty applications like corrosion control.

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Drive-by Energy Audits

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If heat loss through your roof is going to melt snow and cause ice dams, use a snow rake to clear the snow. Here's my wife raking our roof after last week's snowstorm. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge

With all the snow we received in southern Vermont last week, it's a great time to be an energy nerd! Lots of snow on roofs means that it's easy to tell at a glance how energy efficient houses in the neighborhood are. I mean, it's not a thorough energy audit.

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