Ken 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?
adminsta answers:
Oh Darren m’boy, just switch of your’ computer and everybody will be happy !
Daniel 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
adminsta 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.
John asks…
Tips on how to minimize brain power use (I need to save energy and save it up for things useful)?
I have read articles on the web but would like real-people experience and thoughts:
- How do you achieve mental relaxation.
- What are some of the ways to “not sweat the small things”
- Any ideas of saving brain energy.
adminsta answers:
Try observing and not getting involved in situations you normally would. It’s quite difficult, but makes you realise how often we get involved in stuff that is actually nothing to do with us and get owrried, concerned about things and people that is not helping them or us.
Thomas 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
adminsta 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.
Susan 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!
adminsta 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.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers