About Us
Mission Statement
First, to advance development of a protocol to test and grade the new insulation technology, enabling its building code inclusion to vastly reduce energy consumption and pollution; then to promote its use.
Energy Conservancy
Mary Joe Canon's late husband Michael Leonard perfected this insulation. To complete his life work, and in his honor and memory, she recently formed Energy Conservancy, a nonprofit corporation (501C3 30-1259888), dedicated to the reduction of Global warming in a very hostile business environment. Her donation, thus far unsuccessful, is her standing offer to sell her U.S. Patent for $1.00 to a buyer who agrees to secure the needed protocol and then to guarantee mass manufacturing and marketing.
Energy Conservancy, headquartered at 1610 Sycamore Ln, Davis, CA, has no assets, debt, employees, overhead nor future plans to solicit donations. Dr. Cannon plans to work with the executive director, Stephen Jacobs, enlisting organizations and environmentalists to implement its energy saving and pollution reducing mission.
Building Code Inclusion
Five engineers with the CA Energy Commission (CEC) and the CA Building Standards Commission (CBSC), at Leonard’s demonstration of new opaque insolation technology, recognized the potential energy savings and moisture elimination that could be achieved. None had ever seen an insulation result in an exterior surface temperature lower than the control, or realized the possibility. All five engineers stated that, when this insulation could be tested and graded, they would recommend inclusion with good practice credit in Title 24 of The Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Nonresidential Buildings section in the California Building Standards Code.
The CEC and CBSC have no protocol to test or grade reflecting, ventilating, or moisture-resisting insulation. A request for CEC funding to develop an ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) test protocol was turned down. The CEC and CBDC both work closely and influentially with the International Code Council, updating their respective codes.
Today’s building codes cannot enforce high insulation standards to meet global warming goals until ASTM protocols are developed to test and grade the heat resistance of insulation that reflects and vents radiant heat, blocks moisture, and lowers exterior surface temperatures.
Energy Conservancy is currently negotiating with ASTM for the development of this essential new protocol, as first proposed by Dr. David Yarbrough, an ASTM member who founded R&D Services.