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Ways to Reduce Cost of Lighting

August 11, 2012 1 Comment

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Ninety percent of the energy used by an incandescent bulb is wasted, while only 10 percent is converted into light according to EnergySavers.gov.

Light bulb

The new age light bulbs save energy by turning much more electricity into light. The engineering behind the manufacturing make it possible. The Natural Resource Defense Council says by 2020 the law will reduce energy costs by $100 to $200 per household each year. That is equivalent to shutting down 20+ power plants across the world.

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15 Ways to Reduce summer Energy Consumption

July 16, 2012 19 Comments

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With the heat of the summer months, you want to reduce as much heat as possible and save energy at the same time. It is natural that you will spend less energy over the summer months than the winter months; since you need less energy to keep heat in. however, you should be careful that you are not using too much energy to reduce the heat in your home over the summer.
Specially in hotter states, our energy bill in summer cost us more than that in the winter.  Energy conservation help us in maintaining cleaner environment.
Some of the practices that will reduce summer energy spending are as follows:
  1. Use fans with your air conditioner, at is helps to circulate the cool air from your air conditioner.
  2. Use ceiling fans to improve the air circulation in your home, so that you can feel some breeze in the heat of the summer months. You can opt for the use of a house fan so that your whole home is ventilated in the heat of the summer. This fan can be mounted in the attic and will be perfect when the windows to the home are open.
  3. If you can, get an oscillating fan as they will turn from side to side as opposed to blowing in one direction.  For the maintenance  of  the fan, make sure you follow the manufacturer’s instructions for  the care and maintenance of the fan to ensure that the operating costs are controlled
  4. Use a washer which allows you to control the level of the water needed to wash the clothes. For this, you can save a lot of water and energy when you need to wash some few clothes. Also, it will be a good idea if you just wash clothes when you are sure you will be having a full load. For example, wash the clothes once a week rather than once every three days. Then you will be washing when you have a full load.
  5. Do not use hot water unless you really need it, most clothes can be washed by the dryer with warm water rather than hot water.
  6. Rinse in cold water; unlike what you may think this has no effect on the quality of your clothes. If you are using hot water, your water heater should be close to the washer to reduce the distance it will travel to reach the washer. This will prevent it from losing heat.
  7. You can save a lot of energy in the summer by drying your clothes in the sun rather htan using the dryer. Most clothes can be hanged on the line without any negative effect on them. You can also dry others like acrylic sweaters on the ground.
  8. Ensure that they are not over-dried-whether you are drying them outside or you are dying them using the dryer-this will cause you to use more water on them every time you wash them and this will mean more energy.
  9. Use energy efficient water heaters that will save you energy over the summer. With the heat of the summer, you can reduce your hot water needs; for example you can have hot water showers only in the evening or in the night.
  10. When you want to purchase one, consider how many times you will be heating the water and how large your family is. If you use hot water most of the time and you are many, you may want to buy a large one. If the reverse is true then you can opt for the smaller one. When the heater is too large, you will use too much energy heating it and when it is too small you will find yourself without water most of the time.
  11. Use air conditioners that are energy-efficient; those that will spend less energy in the long run. Get one that has a timer, or get it installed in the one that you already have. This timer will control its operations especially if you are not always at home and you tend to forget to shut it down when you leave.
  12. Opening your windows will help to reduce the heat of the summer, which will go a long way in helping you spend less energy in the long run as you will not use much energy with your air conditioner. Still, if you have a lot of humidity in the area, you may want to close your windows when using your air conditioner. This will prevent the humid air from getting into your home when you are cooling it. it will save you a lot of energy at the same time.
  13. Your air conditioner should have varying fan speeds to allow lower or faster cooling whenever you need.
  14. Install the air conditioner in a place that is central so that it does not use a lot of energy cooling the whole house.
  15. Set the thermostat of the air conditioner at normal or slightly higher but not high as this will save energy. Setting it at high in the beginning will not help to cool the room any faster.

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Readers, can you share some other methods you are following or have followed all along? Let’s make this article an useful resource for all future readers.

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Economic and Ecological Efficiency – The Best Business Energy Solutions

June 14, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Ecological awareness has indubitably become the main strategic aspect to any current business innovations. Ensuring that your company considers conversational practice within day to day systems is an increasingly altruistic business requirement for UK enterprises.

 

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How to Keep Heating Bills Low This Winter

January 6, 2012 23 Comments

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This holiday we had a visitor, an old friend from my childhood.  He and his family currently live in Michigan. While Florida presented them a welcome change of weather, they in turn gave me this frugal story of theirs to keep home heating bills under control.  I was pondering this idea for last few days and ultimately asked for his suggestion.

Having a reputation in our dorm for his legendary frugality, this friend of mine is the ultimate authority in cost cutting. Here are some of the techniques he suggests employing at your residence.

Reduce heating bill by lowering thermostat a few degrees

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How Use of Alternate Energy Can Save Money

December 16, 2011 22 Comments

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Once in a while, I think about adopting the different forms of alternative energy right here in our home. Though I understand that the cost is quite expensive; solar panels are not cheap at all but, the long-term benefits are far greater. So far, I have only ensured home insulation and bought a few energy star appliances towards my contribution to the green cause.

This saga of going green is of one of my colleagues, Cindy, who lives in a single family home. They are slowly transforming their suburban home into a sustainable one:

Cindy’s husband is a businessman and owner of a couple of restaurants. They have money to live life they wish for. One of her wishes was to help the environment. They studied, researched and installed solar power modules at their home. Now they are planning even planning for mini wind mill installation.

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Three Largest Energy Guzzling Appliances And How to Cut Cost On Them

July 4, 2011 6 Comments

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My Mrs. is a Masters in ecology, she has many subscription to green energy, clean energy magazines. She always reminds me to innovate ways to cut costs on our daily energy usage. Recently I came across a few tips on saving energy on household appliances supplied in mailer from our utility company FPL.

I had already written three articles related to energy usage How To Save Money by saving water, How I save some money on Earth day and How to save on Gas prices. This is my another green attempt to remind all our readers on the relative ease with which you can control energy usage to generate maximum save.

I will only talk about 3 most energy-consuming appliances in your home if you concentrate on controlling energy usage on these three things, you can save up to 40% of your energy bill. This is what I called efficient and most productive way to derive maximum result.

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