08 Feb 2012 @ 12:05 PM 
 

Easy Stuff Anyone Can Do To Save Energy

 

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My study about alternative energy along with green standard of living has always been a great deal of help particularly on saving my ultrasound technician salary. Compared to other countries around the world, the United States wastes electricity the most. Planet Earth is dealing with really critical issues like pollution and the depletion of the ozone layer so it is imperative that we do our best to not waste energy and, in turn, save our planet.

 

In this article, we are going to cover just a few things you can do to help save energy and also save some money daily. These are very simple things that any person can do, we merely have to make the decision to do them in order to help our planet and ourselves.

 

One thing you can do is to simply turn off the lights when you go out a room. A lot of people are likely to leave lights on in a room when they know they are coming back, possibly in ten or fifteen minutes. Leaving the room unattended with the lights turned on can lead to as much as thirty minutes or more of wasted electricity if done several times a day. While you squandering what could be thirty minutes of electrical energy each day may not appear like much, consider that millions of other people are doing it also. If you combine the minutes for the year, that would be about 182 hours of electrical energy just for one light in one room for each individual that does this. Then multiply that by just 1 million individuals. That totals to 182,000,000 hours of energy being wasted every year on just one light. My current excursions so far at different ultrasound technician schools have trained me a lot about some basic steps on how to reduce electricity bills. These tips were particularly supplied by some of my mentors during college years.

 

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One other thing that is causing waste is the habit we have of walking into a room and turning the lights on. This has become something that’s done by many people. I tend to catch myself doing the very same thing also. Still, there could be sufficient light, perhaps sunlight, coming into a room. And yet, we walk into a fairly lit room and flip the light switch to on. And aside from that, because of the natural light getting in, we forget we turned the room light on in the first place and leave it on for the rest of the day. You need to make a deliberate effort to leave the lights flipped off if there is adequate natural light in a room.

 

One more problem is people leaving electronic devices like televisions and radios turned on the entire day, even when they are not using them. A great example is my mom; she’s always leaving the TV switched on in the living room, even though she’s is in the kitchen making a meal or cleaning the rest of the house. That’s a ton of electrical energy being consumed. If you are not going to be in the room anymore and the television is turned on, turn it off.

 

These are simply a couple of things that anyone can do really easily but can have a huge impact on our attempts to conserve electrical energy and to save the environment. It doesn’t take much to do what we explained but if every person does it, regardless how little it may appear, it will have a huge positive consequence.

 

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Posted By: TheBrain
Last Edit: 08 Feb 2012 @ 12 05 PM

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