Michael asks…
Yahoo says save electric energy so how to delete articles on bin laden types?
How to delete media articles fluff pieces which do not mention constituton as computer program?
how to delete media fluff pueces from the web? fluss meaning inconsequential so can save electric energy?
ad on electric conservation says so?
admin answers:
Oh Darren m’boy, just switch of your’ computer and everybody will be happy !
Sharon asks…
How saving energy means conserving water in U.S. West article.?
I have to come up with 3 possible solutions for the issue presented in this article. If you want you can read the full thing here : http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-saving-energy-means-conserving-water
In summary this article says: Energy and water are tightly interconnected. Energy production sucks more water from freshwater sources than any other sector except agriculture. This is a growing problem because in many places, finding water for energy isn’t easy,– and it will only get tougher as energy demands soar and we deal with climate change. Water availability is a growing global problem, especially in arid regions like the West, which is warming almost twice as fast as the global average. Residents will soon need more energy to cool living spaces, however, there will likely be less water to make enough electricity to do that.
*** When I say solutions to help conserve water to save energy, i dont mean “taking shorter showers.” I’m looking for more ‘logical’ solutions. thanks!!!
admin answers:
Enough water to escalate the state’s already intense water disputes into open warfare. “If oil shale energy does become commercially viable, it will be a huge new water drain,” says Dan Luecke, a Colorado-based hydrologist and Western water consultant.Arid mid-latitude regions like the West are warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, according to the Rocky Mountain Climate
Organization. As the West warms, residents will need more energy to cool living spaces and make desert cities like Tucson and Scottsdale inhabitable – and will likely have less water to make enough
electricity to do that.
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Nancy asks…
idea’s please. How could I title an article about energy savings and computers which sounds catchy and fun?
The article is specifically about how different options (such as turning the PC off/standby etc and turning the screen off/screen saver etc, can save or not save energy. Not the most exciting topic so I need a fun catchy title to make it stand out a bit. Thanks for any ideas
admin answers:
“kill your computer” (a takeoff on the “kill your TV” bumper stickers).
“compute your savings”, a notion that you’re going to actually ‘do some numbers’ here.
I hope your paper encourages its readers to really measure the power used by the various loads in their world. We humans are naturally lazy and, when told “your 24/7 sleeping computer is actually wasting (lots of) energy”, we tend to believe that as stated. In the grand scheme of things, it’s barely true. I bought a Killawatt meter on Ebay for $14 and ran around measuring Everything. My sleeping computer takes 3 watts, the backyard fountain takes 35, a backyard light takes 29, Tivo takes 27. Refrigerators and heaters are where the real power is expended and seemingly small adjustments to their setpoints have more effect than turning off 30 sleeping computers.
When my A/C comes on, the house’s meter jumps over 3000 watts. The dryer adds over 4000 watts. These are obviously not On all the time but they sure makes their presence known on the electric bill. The sleeping computer, left on 24/7 at 3 watts, will add up to 2.1 kWh at the end of a 30 day billing period. A/C, electric dryer, refrigerators, etc etc bring the whole bill up above 600 kWh.
I hope your paper encourages them to read and try to understand their electric bill and to try reading their electric meter (mine, a TOU meter, was not straightforward…).
I’m installing relays in my house to let a computer make sure Tivo, unnecessary devices etc are really off. Radio Shack “X10″ products could do a lot of what I’m doing.
My focus is obviously the home environment. Turning off computers and copiers can be a much bigger deal in an office environment but, there too, the temperature setpoints are going to make more of a difference than the sleeping computers.
George asks…
ENERGY SAVING LIGHT BULBS HAVE POISON IN THEM?!?
I was just doing random research when I came upon an article that says that these energy saving lights bulbs, that seemed like saviors to the planet to me a few months ago, have mercury in them.
I don’t believe everything I read straight away so I did some research and on dailymail.co.uk there was an article that says that if one of these bulbs break, to leave the room for at least 15 minutes.
This is all so convenient as we literally just switched to these energy saving lights the other day. (Yes I know, we took our time to switch.)
Also, we (stupidly) put a light bulb in the kitchen, near the door. So when my mum opened the door, it broke directly above her!!! I was with her, but we didn’t know it was toxic. We just removed the broken bulb and hoovered up the glass fragments.
To make matters only worse, on the dailymail website, it said not to hoover the glass as the vacuum machine could spread mercury droplets around the house!
What do I do?!
Thanks everyone for your responses. I feel like such a douche now lol. I was actually running around the house, unscrewing all the bulbs lool. I was just worried for my mum. I’ll let you decide who has the best answer since I can’t choose. They all helped. Thanks again xxxx
admin answers:
Dont worry – a tiny bit of mercury, soon gone, it will not ‘spread round the house’ but stay in the dust bag, dont trust one single thing you read in the ‘daily wail’. I would be more worried your mum got glass in her hair. We used to play with mercury in school, and people even used to swallow it as a cure for some diseases. I imagine thta wasnt very good for them, but it shows you a few grams will be more or less harmless. My first one broke at ten years old recently – my fault, i was twisting it violently holding it by the bulb- i did go out of the room for a few minutes, just as a precaution, but felt a bit silly doing it.
The mercury emitted by the extra coal (when it is burned) you would be using if you had the old bulbs is a lot more than is used in the light bulbs.
Donna asks…
Energy Saving questions!?
Hi, I’m doing research for an article on how to protect the environment and save energy, and need to find out the money and amounts of energy conserved in the following areas:
1. How much energy can you save if you switch the lights off for 1 hour, and how much money would you save? (on average)
2. How much water does a daily 20 minute shower use on average?
3. How much energy/electricity does a 10-minute hair straightening session use?
as I said, if you could give an average answer, that would be great
- thanks to anyone who can help!
admin answers:
1.The cost effectiveness of when to turn off lights depends on the type of lights and the price of electricity. The type of light is important for several reasons. All types of lights have a nominal or rated operating life, which is the total number of hours that they will provide a specified level or amount of light. However, the operating life of all types of light bulbs is affected by how many times they are turned on and off. The more often they are switched on and off, the lower their operating life. The exact number of hours that switching lights on and off reduces the total operating life depends on the type of light and how many times it is switched on and off.
2.The average shower disperses about 2 gallons of water per minute. This means if you take a 10 minute shower, you’re using about 20 gallons of water.
Carol asks…
Energy Saving questions- please help if possible?
Hi, I’m doing research for an article on how to protect the environment and save energy, and need to find out the money and amounts of energy conserved in the following areas:
1. How much energy can you save if you switch the lights off for 1 hour, and how much money would you save? (on average)
2. How much water does a daily 20 minute shower use on average?
3. How much energy/electricity does a 10-minute hair straightening session use?
as I said, if you could give an average answer, that would be great
- thanks to anyone who can help!
admin answers:
You’ve got to make some assumptions in order to answer this question, and your respondent (answerer) needs to tell you what his/her assumptions are.
1. I’m going to assume that your home uses standard incandescent bulbs. Further, I’m going to assume that, at any one time–in the evening, when you have the lights on– that you use, or have on, two 100W bulbs, eight 60W bulbs and ten 40 W bulbs. I’m also going to assume that your power company charges you $0.20 per kilowatt-hour for energy. Here’s how to figure this out (and now you can put your own figures in, to handle your particular situation):
(2×100)+(8×60)+(10×40)=200+480+400=1080 watts, or 1.08 kW. The power company figures energy consumption by multiplying the amount of power used by the number of hours it’s used. In this example, your energy consumption is 1.08 kW x 1 hour, = 1.08 kWh. Your cost for this energy would be $0.20 x 1.08 = $0.216, or 21.6 cents. As an aside: this doesn’t sound like much, but all those hours (720 per month, avg.) and all those watts add up, AND, this isn’t a typical AVERAGE lighting load. As a further example, I used to run a 200W incandescent bulb continuously for outdoor security. The cost of doing this was 200W x 720 h = 144000Wh, =144kWh, and the cost was
144 x $0.20 = $28.80 per month. I switched to a 300W (equivalent) high efficiency bulb, which uses 70W. My bill to run that one bulb, and get more light and security is
70W x 720h = 50400Wh = 50.4 kWh, which costs 50.4×0.20= $10.08 per month, for more light.
Figure on paying only about 25% what you regularly pay for lighting, if you use the high-efficiency bulbs, because they only use about 25% as much power.
2. This answer is strictly from memory, but I think I remember that the average modern shower head uses between 1 and 3 gallons per minute. If we use 2 as the norm, then a 20-minute shower would consume 2gal/min X 20 min, = 40 gallons.
If you want to get fairly good check on your shower, here’s the way I measured mine: use one of the commonly-available 5-gallon buckets from the home-improvement stores (they’re great for a lot of things, and cheap!), put it under the shower head, and turn the shower on full-blast. Let the shower run for 30 seconds, and then multiply the quantity of water you’ve collected by 2. This results in a more manageable technique (one gallon of water weighs more than 8 pounds!) The only other thing you need to know to help in your measuring effort is that 1 gallon = 128 fluid ounces (64 oz = 1/2 gal, 32 oz= 1 qt, 16 oz = 1pt), so that if you collect 81 fluid ounces of water in 1/2 minute, then your shower head puts out 162 fl. Oz./min, = 162/128 = 1.26 gal/min, (or approx. 1 1/4 gpm), and a 20-minute shower would use 1.26 gal/min x 20 min = 25.2 gallons.
3. Again, I’m going to explain the technique I use so that you can calculate the exact answer for yourself. I don’t have access to a hair-straightener, but I’m going to ASSUME that they use the same amount of power as a 500 watt (500W) hair dryer. Again, this is only for the purposes of getting a figure I can use.
Once again (from #1, above), electrical energy is measured in kilowatt-hours ( = 1000 watt-hours ), which is determined by multiplying how many watts are used over a period of one hour, and then dividing by 1000.
In this case, the time specified is 10 minutes which = 10/60, or 1/6 th of an hour.
The energy used in this time is
500 watts x 1/6 hour = 500/6 watt-hours, = 83.33/1000 = 0.083.. KWh, or less than 1/10th of a kWh.
Most importantly, you know how to figure this out for yourself.
Warmest regards…
P.s.: In my draft of the answer to you, in question #1 I typed
“200+480+400=1080″.
This is the correct summation; the system won’t let me change what’s shown.
Mandy asks…
Energy Saving Fluorescent Lights Bad for your Health-What do you think?
I read in todays Parade Magazine an article written by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld. He states that the energy saving fluorescent lightbulbs have been reported to cause migraines and seizures. He also states that these bulbs contain Mercury and if they break they can release toxin dust into the air. My question is if we know this is potentially dangerous and we know that once these bulbs are put in landfills that they will be broken, why are they being sold as being environmental “Green”. I would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on this.
I realize that regular fuorecent bulbs have had Mercury. Can’t we find a better solution before we tote this as being the answer? I think that to be labeled “green” it really needs to be a safe product for the environment
admin answers:
I disagree wholeheartedly.
CFL’s (compact flourescent lights) are much better for the health of the planet in the long term. They last much longer and use significantly less energy than regular incandescent bulbs. All waste material containing dangerous substances should be disposed of properly. This includes batteries and electronics. If disposed of properly CFL’s are not an environmental health hazard. They are beneficial.
I would be much more concerned with ingesting pesticides from produce than the supposed health hazards of CFL’s. Controlling the quality of the food you eat has a much greater effect on your overall health than your lightbulbs – so make all the eco friendly choices you can. It will benefit everyone, including yourself!
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