Everyone here on Earth want to save except few. Whether its money or life or other resources.
One of them is Power / Electricity / Energy and saving it is saving for our future generation.
One of them is Power / Electricity / Energy and saving it is saving for our future generation.
1. Cooling
- Close exterior doors and windows properly when the AC is in use.
- Change or clean AC's air filters at least once in a month to keep your it running at optimum performance.
- Always try to buy AC with High or Good Energy Ratings.
- Block the sun from heating your home! Inside, use shades, blinds and drapes. Outside, use awnings, trees and shrubs.
- If possible insulate the walls with foam insulation to so that heat is trapped
- Keep the door inside home open, it will allow the free flow of air through the home.
- Plant trees to provide shade on the sunny side of your home.
- Try using ceiling fans more rather than ACs to cool, they dont need much electric power to run.But, make sure that you turn off the fans when you are not using it.
2. Appliances
- Use microwaves to cook or warm leftovers. They use less energy compared to conventional ones.
- If you are staying where temperature is already low, try to keep the refrigerator's cooling knob to low level. It will save good amount of energy.
- Replace a refrigerator that was bought in 90s with an energy-efficient models.
- Try to Keep the freezer full. It uses less energy than an empty one. For maximum savings, consider filling your freezer with gallon containers of water.
- Choose energy-efficient appliances. They don’t just save you money, but they’re good for the environment because they use less energy.
- Wash and dry several loads at once. It saves power. You can skip drying in machine when Sun is a free dryer available at your service.
- Always match your pot size to the burner size on your cooking stove. Good amount of heat is lost in air when small pots are used on large burners.So, always try to use smaller burner.
- Use tight-fitting covers on pots and pans when cooking on the stove to shorten your cooking time and save energy.
- Turn off your burners when food is almost ready and let existing heat finish the cooking for you.
- Whenever possible wash with full loads of clothes.
- Set your dishwashers and washing machine on economy mode, to use less water and electricity.
- Use copper bottomed pans and pots when cooking on the stove. Copper is good conductor of heat and gets heated up easily compared to another metals.
3. Electronics
- Plug electronics into a power strips. So when you are done with one switch you can turn off all of them at once instead of forgetting to switch of particular one.
- Unplug battery chargers when the batteries are fully charged or the chargers are not in use. Many chargers draw power continuously, even when the device is not plugged into the charger.
- Consider buying a laptop instead of buying a computer. Laptop uses less power. In the Same way, buying LED TVs are good option but yeah they are costly.
- Set your computer to sleep or hibernate mode instead of using a screen saver it saves electric when not in use.
- Replace Old CRT monitors with LCD/LED ones.
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