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<\/a><\/div>\nDo you have electric windows in your house?<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nWhy not?\u00a0 Perhaps because they are not yet readily available.<\/p>\n
This sounds like a business opportunity.\u00a0 Electric windows in a house would be environmentally sound, save fossil fuel and make life a little bit easier especially for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n
Electric windows in a house could be set to open and close based on temperature differences between the indoors and the outdoors saving electricity.\u00a0 They could be hooked into the air conditioning unit so that the a\/c couldn\u2019t turn on until the windows were closed saving even more electricity.\u00a0 The system could even have a storm override so that the windows would close automatically in bad weather whether anyone is at home or not.\u00a0 It could all be operated from one switch per room, a whole house master switch or a remote master.\u00a0 A remote master would allow people with disabilities to open and close windows with relative ease.<\/p>\n
After the electric window systems are in mass production the increased cost of installation will be easily paid back by the energy saving on heating and cooling.\u00a0 The convenience will be a bonus.<\/p>\n
Still not a believer: consider that even many inexpensive cars now come with electric windows.\u00a0 Why, because the cost differential between hand crank windows and electric windows is so low that it barely affects the cost of the car.\u00a0 The cost in homes will be relatively more because of the cost of wiring but this is a knowable cost in new construction and manageable cost in the replacement window market.\u00a0 The benefits will be tremendous including helping to fight “global warming”<\/p>\n
What about safety?\u00a0 My newish Acura has windows that go up and down automatically but that stop when they meet resistance.<\/p>\n
Who will make this product?\u00a0 Ideally it would be Pella Windows<\/a> or one of the other high window manufacturers in cooperation with one of the big utilities like SCE<\/a>.\u00a0 In reality it will be a small company that makes high-end windows for rich peoples custom homes.\u00a0 The design and testing costs will be high but within ten years this will be a multi billion-dollar market in new construction and even more in the replacement market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you have electric windows in your car? Probably Do you have electric windows in your house? Probably not. Why not?\u00a0 Perhaps because they are not yet readily available. This sounds like a business opportunity.\u00a0 Electric windows in a house would be environmentally sound, save fossil fuel and make life a little bit easier especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}