Do yourself and your family a big favour and get down to your local library and borrow the book “Home Energy Secrets-The Inside Story” ASAP. Tell your friends and extended family about the book as well and suggest that they also go to their council library and borrow it ASAP. Time is of the essence as the clock is ticking because, although the book became a best seller in Australia and the United Kingdom in 2020, not every council library may have a copy and rarely books over two years old are secured for the public. If your library doesn’t have one soon, they may not have one ever. Even if you have to borrow it again because you don’t get time to read it all the first time, if you know that your library has a copy on the shelves, it will be there for you when you are ready next time and for your kids and your mum and your mum’s next-door neighbour.
From my early years I have valued the quote “The Most Noble Thing A Man Can Do Is To Plant A Tree That Will One Day Give Shade To Someone He Will Never Know”. The young man I was remembers this small variation on the original quote attributed to D. Elton Trueblood.
Having a resource with this practical information available to every member of the public is like having a natural resource like a city park available for every citizen to share and obtain recreational benefit. Whilst the information contained in the book is practical everywhere in the world that the natural laws of thermodynamics prevail, the information was accrued in Australia under practical real-life conditions and has benefit for anyone who lives in a house of any type, either rented or owned.
In February 2020 I was invited to speak at the Brisbane group RENEW and a gentleman spoke with me after my presentation to the group saying it was great to hear from someone who was actually living what they were speaking about.
(You can access the original recording here https://youtu.be/tgOXpXRm9uI)
My family has benefited from applying the information that is shared in the book for over 25 years putting us on course to be slightly more than one hundred thousand dollars better off, in electrical savings and expenses, than what I refer to as “the house next door” who doesn’t do what we do, by December 2032.
Yes that’s 100 grand. And after that, who knows because the game is never over. What and how we do what we do is in the book. But to get the benefits that we do you have to know what we know and do what we do. It’s worth knowing the basics at least and I can attest, with documented evidence, that the practical information has served us well.
Further to that, my family has used the four simple tricks to determine the energy performance of any dwelling, before even looking at a house for purchase or building. Just knowing and applying this practical information can result in purchasing or building a dwelling valued statistically at as much as 15% over market value for no less outlay that rents for 7% more than, what appears to be a similar dwelling in the same market, or what I refer to as “the house next door”. They really aren’t similar at all but look similar to the untrained eye. I ask the question “how many miles to the gallon does this house get?” Why live a home that guzzles electricity? Why not save statistically as much as 40% on energy by living in home that needs little heating or cooling, if any, throughout the seasons. We have mother nature working for us 24/7 at no cost to us working to keep our home at 23 degrees every day of every year. An energy efficient dwelling is energy efficient by design. The stable internal temperatures make it more comfortable to live in for owners and renters tend to be more long term as a thermally comfy home is nice place to live.
What are you waiting for?
Share this information with those who you would like to benefit from the information and then get down to your local library ASAP, …. The clock is ticking.
The sooner you start you sooner you can start sharing in the benefits.
John Lynn
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