23 posts tagged “energy saving tips”
- Save money (more than $100 a year on electric bills for most households)
- Conserve energy and the environment
- Clothes last longer. Where do you think lint comes from?
- It is physical activity, which you can do inside or outside.
- Sunlight bleaches and disinfects.
- Indoor racks can humidify in dry winter weather.
- Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths and 400 injuries annually. The yearly national fire loss for clothes dryer fires in structures is estimated at $99 million.
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- Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the
temperature is still cool. All service stations have their storag
e tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon.
- Fill up when your gas tank is half-full, because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm.
- If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money
The kit consists of two hybrid electric motors with rare earth permanent magnets that are mounted on the outside of the vehicle, which are tied to a 72V 120Ah Deep Cycle Lead Acid battery pack on the inside. According to Poulsen, once installed, the system effectively turns a front-wheel drive car into an all-wheel drive car, and results in a driving "effect" that is " equivalent to freewheeling down a 3% grade," with the accelerator needing to be depressed less or not at all to keep the car moving
Poulsen intends to make its kit available to the general public in the not to distant future, and for the relatively bargain price of $3,300, no less (add an extra $600 to that if you don't think you're up to installing it yourself).
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Here is how I prevent the furnace from cycling so often. By day, I open the curtains to let the sun shine on our passive solar system (painted black bricks in our bay window). I turn down the thermostat to a level I can live with (68) and move a ceramic heater into the living room right below our thermostat.
See my other post about
heating costs
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- Give yourself an energy audit
- See if solar power makes sense using this calculator
- Always buy energy star appliances
- Set your water heater to 125 degrees
- Buy low flow shower heads
- Try to shower in less time or shower with someone else :-))
- Fill a gallon milk jug with sand, put the top back on, and put it in your toilet tank (be sure it fits without covering the flap)
- Unplug all appliances that are not being used, including cell phone chargers
- See my other energy saving posts
