From Energy Audits to Home Performance: 30 Years of Articles in Home Energy Magazine

Couldn’t the research findings be “translated” into something more accessible to the practitioner? This would speed the transfer of knowledge from the laboratory to the marketplace, leading to greater energy (and dollar) savings. [...] Ultimately, the obscurity of the title became such an obstacle that we changed the name to the self-explanatory Home Energy Magazine. [...] The Energy Information Administration (EIA) adopted the estimates and made them the basis of a table of energy use of appliances in the 1987 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (Energy Information Administration 1999) and in every survey since then. [...] The origins of the soot and the mechanisms of deposition are mostly understood although the causes in a specific home are often difficult to untangle. [...] This remains one of the most frequently visited articles on the Home Energy website; in addition, many technical reports and consumer guides reference the original Home Energy articles.