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Created Tuesday, August 18, 2009 by kazaddress
Last updated 902 days ago, by kazaddress
Energy saving light bulbs
If you have 10 lights on in your house (which is easily done if you have lights in the bathroom, kitchen, living room on at the same time). If each of those lights are 100watts, that’s a 1000watts an hour. If you change to energy saving light bulbs at 6watts each, that would be reduced to 60watts in total. Imagine how much money you will save for your energy bills!
Energy saving devices
Each of your devices on standby use around 10% of the energy they would use when they are in use. You can get energy saving plugs which plug into the wall that run off batteries, or use a minimal amount of electricity. You plug your appliances (mobile charger / tv / video / microwave / washing machine / oven etc) into these plugs, and at the end of the night, or when you leave the house, you press a switch on a remote control, and all those devises are turned off (much easier then running around turning plugs off at the all).
You can save energy by cooking in bulk. Not only do you save energy by only needing the oven/hob once. you also need to wash up all the pots / pans less, and as your freezer is more efficient when its full, your saving energy there too!