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	<title>Walker Energy Systems</title>
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		<title>A MadiSUN Success Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patty Prime and Richard Linster's house now has a 5.8kW solar electric power plant on the roof!]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=38</link>
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		<title>City of Madison Solar Assistance Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 3rd, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz formally announced the MadiSUN program. This program, funded by a Dept. of Energy Solar American Cities grant, has the goal of doubling the number of solar energy systems in Madison by the end of 2009.
A major component of the grant is to provide the community with a consultant who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=33</link>
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		<title>A Solar Assessment Case Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found that the most interesting aspect doing solar assessments is that they frequently remind me of the importance of asking the right question in the first place.
Consider a solar PV (electric) assessment I did for a homeowner in rural Dane County. The home is a passive solar design from the &#8217;70s, with two stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Household Carbon Footprint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read hundreds of references to &#8220;household carbon footprint&#8221; over the last couple of years, and used the phrase myself quite a few times. But I recently realized that I didn&#8217;t actually know what my own household&#8217;s footprint is, or how it compares to other households&#8217; footprints.
So I decided to whip up a small &#8220;Carbon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Ice Dams Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, who would have expected, back in December, that we were starting the snowiest winter on record. The Weather Service says we&#8217;ve had snow on 43 days so far this winter. And as I walk and drive around town, I&#8217;m seeing the scariest ice dams and snow cornices I&#8217;ve ever seen! These things weigh hundreds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Check your roof for leaking energy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current buildup of snow and ice on Madison roofs is giving building owners a good chance to check for energy leaks. If you have huge icicles hanging from your gutters or monster ice dams, look at the roof above them:


Notice the &#8220;rumpled&#8221; looking snow halfway up the roof? That&#8217;s melting snow, warmed from below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Big TV choices: energy matters?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funny thing about big TVs and energy efficiency: lots of people don&#8217;t know there&#8217;s an issue, and lots of other people have bits and pieces of info, some true, some only partially so.
I&#8217;d heard lots of stories, like &#8220;Your plasma TV uses as much electricity as your refrigerator&#8221;. But not a lot of hard numbers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Mpower yourself!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So have you seen the ads showing the big green M posing at various locations around Madison?
The City of Madison has just launched a Social Marketing campaign called &#8220;Mpowering Madison&#8221;. It&#8217;s designed to promote the mayor&#8217;s &#8220;100K Challenge&#8221;: a program to urge  Madison residents and businesses to save 100,000 tons of CO2 annually.
The Mpower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Sausage being made&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old saying about &#8220;Sausage and Legislation are two things you never want to watch being made&#8221; seems to be especially true for US energy policy.
After months of pushing and shoving in both houses of Congress, and with occasional veto threats from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the House and Senate have each passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Chasing Therms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[revised 11/2/07 with improved analysis]
If you&#8217;ve ever looked closely at your utility bill, you may have noticed that natural gas is measured (and billed) in something called Therms. A Therm is defined as being equal to 100,000 BTUs (British Thermal Units), if that helps explain things.
Over the past year, I&#8217;ve spent a fair amount of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wes.on-rev.com/?p=25</link>
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