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Cool electric grid mix interactive data visualization from ElectricRate.Com

November 24, 2020

In the more than 10 years I have been doing SolarChargedDriving.Com and advocating for solar-charged driving, the electric grid has gotten considerably cleaner in the United States -- and in many places around the world.

Go green in your home: Replace old/aging gas home appliances with electric ones

Christof Demont-Heinrich

October 20, 2020

When you need to replace a hot water heater, your furnace and/or air conditioner, your stove/oven, consider electric options, including an electric heat pump.

Rooftop solar gets our meter spinning backward in Littleton, Colorado

Christof Demont-Heinrich

July 14, 2020

A couple of weeks ago, Sopris Solar completed the installation of a two-array 19.6 kW solar system on the roof of one of our garage block units and the roof of our HOA Community House here in Highline Crossing Cohousing Community in Littleton, Colo.

Cohousing community goes solar in sunny Littleton, Colorado: A slideshow

Christof Demont-Heinrich

June 27, 2020

The cohousing community that I live in -- Highline Crossing Cohousing -- here in Littleton, Colo. is FINALLY getting solar after a one-year wait for the installation and, prior to that, 18 months of me, and several other residents here in this community, working toward persuading our community to add a 20 kW solar system.

Coordinated telecommuting: A creative and new way to help keep our air clean

Christof Demont-Heinrich

May 20, 2020

Have you been enjoying the cleaner air where you live? How about the reduced stress load due to having to do less driving and sit in far fewer traffic jams? Yeah, I thought so! Me too!

COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were great for clean air — while they lasted :-(

Christof Demont-Heinrich

April 23, 2020

For past five years, always in the spring, I have developed a consistent, irritating dry cough. I have been tested three times for allergies across that time and the results have always showed that I have no allergies.

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