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Water Efficiency leads to energy efficiency
n regions where pumping and distributing water requires significant electricity use, policies that lead to reduced water consumption could address climate change more efficiently than requiring businesses and households to use less energy, according to water expert Peter Gleick.
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Topics : Water
Dryer sucks a lot of energy
After the fridge, the dryer sucks the most energy in our homes. There are simple ways to decrease dryer energy consumption
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Topics : Lifestyle
Unplug everything when not in use
Unplug your chargers. Most cell-phone chargers continue to draw electricity even when the phone isn?t plugged into it. If your cell-phone charger averages five watts per hour and is plugged in all the time, that means a total of more than 40 kilowatt-hours every year, or about 93 pounds of CO2. The same problem applies to your other electronic equipment?your laptop, iPod, digital camera, television, and BlackBerry. Unplug everything when not in use. - Read More
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Many home appliances continue to draw power even when the switch is off
Lots of home appliances, for example, continue to draw power when the switch is ?off? so that they are always warmed up and can come back to life instantly. Experts sometimes call this constant draw a ?vampire load.? Around the house, all those vampires add up, but hardly anybody knows or cares.
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Topics : Energy Efficiency
Community Energy Cooperative
Chicago-based non profit for building sustainable communities - working to reduce energy use during peak load
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Topics : Society
5 things to conserve energy @ home
1. lower air-conditioning costs (clear your filters regularly) 2. Install proper insulation 3. Modernizing windows (good, triple glazed windows can save significant amounts of heating and cooling)
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Topics : Lifestyle Energy Efficiency
Things to conserve energy
Five things you can do to conserve energy - 1. Get a home energy audit, 2. Use dimmers, 3. Use automatic timers, 4. and /or motion detection sensors...where's the fifth?
Topics : Energy Efficiency
Tapping America's Secret Power Source
It's been tough to capture lots of waste heat economically, but better machines, solid state electronics could accomplish it. How much energy do we waste in America? A little over half. U.S. consumes about 100 quads of energy a year. A quad is a quadrillion BTUs. 50-60 % is wasted as heat. The culprit is waste heat. A new crop of startups, however, are tinkering with ways to make this useful. - Read More
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Topics : Electronic Bioenergy