Wise Energy Thinking - The Starting Point

Not being a naturally loquacious person, blogging has always been a task that I've been inclined to avoid. It's not that I don't think blogs have their place as I've certainly enjoyed and profited from reading other's contribution to the blogsphere -- rather it's more a matter of natural talents, or more correctly, lack thereof. Let's face it, if you know you're tone deaf, you don't usually contemplate starting a new career as music teacher.

And there's little doubt that my lack of interest in actually having a blog myself is intricately linked to the lack of a subject matter that intrigues me sufficiently to invest the time and effort. Being a self professed geek and heavily involved in computers, programming and the Internet, I have plenty of opinions on how and why things work as well as lots of experience in a wide variety of computer topics that might actually help a person or two who right now could be out there vainly googling for an arcane fact concerning the setup of OpenBSD's pf firewall or the best way to troubleshoot Internet access problems on a Windoze PC. But, unfortunately for those 2 people, while I have contributed from time to time on a few mailing lists, I never really took up the blogging challenge and therefore, in my mind, never contributed in a meaningful way to the world's knowledge base.

But now I do have a topic. Now the fires are sufficiently stoked that I need to find a way to make sure the world will start to take notice and "Do the right thing". Now I've got a subject that I'm willing to invest the time and effort into. So, in short, I need a blog! Here I am, now finally willing to take the jump and hoping the water will be just fine -- Anyone out there got a life preserver?

So what's the subject I'm so worked up about? Quite simply, it's America's insatiable need for energy. More to the point, it's the consequences of that need: the waste, the cost, and of course the effect on our planet. These are the items that I want to discuss. These are the types solutions that I want to be able to explore. This will be the "official" topic of this blog.

I've started a company called "Wise Energy Online" that creates a rather unique energy monitoring solution for homes and small businesses. So yes, there will be a commercial aspect to some of the postings. But, I'll endeavor to also provide general tips and tricks that I've learned from actually using an energy monitoring system on my own house, solutions that seem to work across the board to reduce your home's energy use and therefore the amount of money you'd spend on your next power bill. But also I'd like to touch on a wide variety of subtopics, from the improbable ROI of installing your own energy generation solution, to the lowly task of discovering "vampire" power use and what the possible payback really is.

So this is the "starting point", from here who knows what will happen or how it will effect the world, if at all. All I can do is try.

Chuck