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The Power of a Shower

By Deb Niemeier On April 15, 2013 · 1 Comment

Solar Purchase Motivations

By Deb Niemeier On February 26, 2013 · 7 Comments

Welcome to the first dispatch of eTakes, a blog on energy and the environment. I’m a professor of civil and environmental engineering. Over the next year, I’d like to use this blog to explore a wide range of topics with you, including ways to think about financing solar panels, the kinds of climate action plans cities in California are working on, how state agencies are reducing energy, and even investigating the amount of energy that is used to build my carbon fiber cello. I hope we can make this journey informative, insightful, and possibly even entertaining.

I recently installed home solar panels for electricity generation. I went into the process thinking it was pretty simple, but discovered that there were many decision points along the way. Today I thought I’d explore what motivates people to purchase solar panels.

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