How to save electricity

[Arumugham]

Microwave ovens consume less energy.
Use cold washes in your washing machine and dry clothes outside of
washing machine as far as possible and if practicable.
Keep light fixtures clean to get optimum light. By this, switching on
extra lights is avoided.
When using computers, make use of power saving modes, turn off
peripherals when they are not in use.

Power saved is power produced.

Visit
http://severaltips.blogspot.com/2008/07/save-electricity-save-energy-power.html

 

[krw]

In article <0b2148de-4355-4cec-9b97-4152b5ac0425
@z27g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, easyshoppingtips@gmail.com says...>

Microwave ovens consume less energy.

Meaningless statement.

Use cold washes in your washing machine and dry clothes outside of
washing machine as far as possible and if practicable.

.....and legal, and you have absolutely nothing better to do with
your life, and...

Keep light fixtures clean to get optimum light. By this, switching on
extra lights is avoided.

Turn 'em all off. With the 500W 42" plasma TV going I don't need
other light. If I did, I'd get a bigger TV.

When using computers, make use of power saving modes, turn off
peripherals when they are not in use.

Let them manage their own power. If you use them, leave 'em on.

Power saved is power produced.

....and this has to do with electronics how?

Visit
http://severaltips.blogspot.com/2008/07/save-electricity-save-energy-power.html

No thanks. I don't need a moron's blog to tell me what is
absolutely obvious.

 

[terryS]

On Jan 13, 9:37 am, krw <k...@att.zzzzzzzzz> wrote:

In article <0b2148de-4355-4cec-9b97-4152b5ac0425
@z27g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, easyshoppingt...@gmail.com says...

Microwave ovens consume less energy.

Meaningless statement.

Use cold washes in your washing machine and dry clothes outside of
washing machine as far as possible and if practicable.

....and legal, and you have absolutely nothing better to do with
your life, and...

Keep light fixtures clean to get optimum light. By this, switching on
extra lights is avoided.

Turn 'em all off.  With the 500W 42" plasma TV going I don't need
other light.  If I did, I'd get a bigger TV.

When using computers, make use of power saving modes, turn off
peripherals when they are not in use.

Let them manage their own power.  If you use them, leave 'em on.

Power saved is power produced.

...and this has to do with electronics how?

Visit
http://severaltips.blogspot.com/2008/07/save-electricity-save-energy-...

No thanks.  I don't need a moron's blog to tell me what is
absolutely obvious.

These simplistic energy saving recommendations ignore one fact.

Many homes (and businesses), especially here in the north eastern part
of North America use electricity for heating.

Almost every month of the year, in this climate, some amount of
heating is required at night; when lights are on.

Also with any electrical device any so called 'wasted' electricity
rapidly becomes heat within the house or building structure.

So any changes we make by economising lighting or reducing other
energy use within a home has to be supplied by some other form of
heating.

Since almost all our heating is provided by hydro generated power that
merely means that by turning off lights or using lower enery consuming
bulbs, electric heaters have to work more to supply the same amount of
energy.

A particular case is our bathroom which has a row of light bulbs above
the vanity mirror. When those lights are on the bathroom thermostat
hardly ever needs to switch on the heater!

Our neighbour has gone heavily, at considerable cost, into using
mostly 'Energy Saving' light bulbs.
Yet their electrcity usage and electrcity bill has remained the same
and is higher than ours!

With outside temperatures tonight well below freezing this room is
entirely heated by 'wasted heat' from the computer and the single desk
lamp bulb. The baseboard electric heater is just about off and hardly
ever cuts in!

So remember the important thing about saving energy is just that!
'Saving' by keeping warmth within the building structure; by better
insulation, weather sealing, use of storm doors, double or triple
window glass, smaller windows, fewer doors to outside etc.

Ventilation should ensure no mould or moisture build up and if
possible air exchangers hould be of the 'heat recovery' type.

Also snow can be banked up against exposed basement walls to cut heat
loss caused by wind. Bushes (especially of the evergreen species that
do not drop their leaves in winter) can reduce heat loss due to
windage around a home.

Most electrcity (and other heat sources) safely used within an other
wise properly ventilated home contribute to home heating.

 

[Don Klipstein]

In <44aae178-7bfa-43e7-85f2-b717de2f296f@v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
terryS wrote:

On Jan 13, 9:37 am, krw <k...@att.zzzzzzzzz> wrote:
In article <0b2148de-4355-4cec-9b97-4152b5ac0425
@z27g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, easyshoppingt...@gmail.com says...

Microwave ovens consume less energy.

Meaningless statement.

Use cold washes in your washing machine and dry clothes outside of
washing machine as far as possible and if practicable.

....and legal, and you have absolutely nothing better to do with
your life, and...

Keep light fixtures clean to get optimum light. By this, switching on
extra lights is avoided.

Turn 'em all off.  With the 500W 42" plasma TV going I don't need
other light.  If I did, I'd get a bigger TV.

When using computers, make use of power saving modes, turn off
peripherals when they are not in use.

Let them manage their own power.  If you use them, leave 'em on.

Power saved is power produced.

...and this has to do with electronics how?

Visit
http://severaltips.blogspot.com/2008/07/save-electricity-save-energy-...

No thanks.  I don't need a moron's blog to tell me what is
absolutely obvious.

These simplistic energy saving recommendations ignore one fact.

Many homes (and businesses), especially here in the north eastern part
of North America use electricity for heating.

My experience with 6 houses, 4 apartments and 3 workplaces in
Philadelphia or suburbs thereof well enough to know heating source is:

All of these heated by oil or gas.

Almost every month of the year, in this climate, some amount of
heating is required at night; when lights are on.

Also with any electrical device any so called 'wasted' electricity
rapidly becomes heat within the house or building structure.

So any changes we make by economising lighting or reducing other
energy use within a home has to be supplied by some other form of
heating.

Since almost all our heating is provided by hydro generated power that
merely means that by turning off lights or using lower enery consuming
bulbs, electric heaters have to work more to supply the same amount of
energy.

I snip from here:

My experience in and near Philadelphia is that little of the electricity
my way comes from hydropower, but from coal, oil, and nuclear. Much of it
comes from nuclear plants that had big cost upshoots due to delays caused
by antinukers when interest rates were at historic highs. Same story
in/near Chicago. NYC has similarly high electricity cost.

Three major metro areas have residential electricity cost close to 14
cents per KWH, or about 4 cents per 1,000 BTUs. #2 fuel oil even at 85%
efficiency and $2.50 per gallon costs only about half that much.

- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)

 

[terryS]

On Jan 24, 4:59 am, d...@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein) wrote:

In <44aae178-7bfa-43e7-85f2-b717de2f2...@v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,





terryS wrote:
On Jan 13, 9:37 am, krw <k...@att.zzzzzzzzz> wrote:
In article <0b2148de-4355-4cec-9b97-4152b5ac0425
@z27g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, easyshoppingt...@gmail.com says...

Microwave ovens consume less energy.

Meaningless statement.

Use cold washes in your washing machine and dry clothes outside of
washing machine as far as possible and if practicable.

....and legal, and you have absolutely nothing better to do with
your life, and...

Keep light fixtures clean to get optimum light. By this, switching on
extra lights is avoided.

Turn 'em all off.  With the 500W 42" plasma TV going I don't need
other light.  If I did, I'd get a bigger TV.

When using computers, make use of power saving modes, turn off
peripherals when they are not in use.

Let them manage their own power.  If you use them, leave 'em on.

Power saved is power produced.

...and this has to do with electronics how?

Visit
http://severaltips.blogspot.com/2008/07/save-electricity-save-energy-....

No thanks.  I don't need a moron's blog to tell me what is
absolutely obvious.

These simplistic energy saving recommendations ignore one fact.

Many homes (and businesses), especially here in the north eastern part
of North America use electricity for heating.

  My experience with 6 houses, 4 apartments and 3 workplaces in
Philadelphia or suburbs thereof well enough to know heating source is:

  All of these heated by oil or gas.

Almost every month of the year, in this climate, some amount of
heating is required at night; when lights are on.

Also with any electrical device any so called 'wasted' electricity
rapidly becomes heat within the house or building structure.

So any changes we make by economising lighting or reducing other
energy use within a home has to be supplied by some other form of
heating.

Since almost all our heating is provided by hydro generated power that
merely means that by turning off lights or using lower enery consuming
bulbs, electric heaters have to work more to supply the same amount of
energy.

  I snip from here:

  My experience in and near Philadelphia is that little of the electricity
my way comes from hydropower, but from coal, oil, and nuclear.  Much of it
comes from nuclear plants that had big cost upshoots due to delays caused
by antinukers when interest rates were at historic highs.  Same story
in/near Chicago.  NYC has similarly high electricity cost.

  Three major metro areas have residential electricity cost close to 14
cents per KWH, or about 4 cents per 1,000 BTUs.  #2 fuel oil even at 85%
efficiency and $2.50 per gallon costs only about half that much.

 - Don Klipstein (d...@misty.com)- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Don mine averages about 2.9 cents (Canadian) per BTU, delivered to
the house based on average residential all electric billing. Right now
the that means in US dollar terms a cost of about 2.3 US cents per
BTU. And we don't have a very large population over which to spread
the distribution costs!

BTW there is big new hydro-power development being planned as the
Lower Churchill, in Labrador. The original Churchill Falls power
already flows to New York State and other US consumers via Quebec,
Canada.

Great quantities are expected to be available for export and are to be
transmitted through an alternative route via Atlantic Canada, to New
England etc. So standby for some green power.

 

On Jan 23, 11:28 pm, terryS <tsanf...@nf.sympatico.ca> wrote:

....

These simplistic energy saving recommendations ignore one fact.

Many homes (and businesses), especially here in the north eastern part
of North America use electricity for heating.

All very good observations, but what will you do during the hot
summers? I don't know about your summer climate in the Northeast, but
we hit 100 F regularly in the summers here in Sacramento.

I can relate to your friend who went all-CFL. I put CFLs everywhere
in our house, including our bathroom, and wondered why they went bad
so often in there. Then I realized: they don't like it humid (from
showers) and they don't like being cycled on and off many times. So
out they went, and in went the old incandescent lights. The bathroom
lights aren't typically used more than 15 minutes at a time anyway,
and sometimes are used as briefly as 1-2 minutes when washing hands.

Cheers,

Michael