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The world's most abundant and richest energy supply is conservation.
Developing energy efficient lifestyles are the first step in reducing the environmental impact that humans have on this earth. I made this Instructable to detail many different ways to reduce your impact. The reader's implementation of the tips I provide is extremely important in reducing our impact on the environment as humans.
If a large amount of people practice small "ways" to decrease the environmental impact, then we have accomplished a great deed. One person utilizing the energy efficient practices is great, but one thousand is even better.
Please share the following tips with your friends, family, and peers. Utilizing energy efficient practices on a large scale is the most important reason I made this Instructable.
I attached a PDF file, it has the gist of the tip, just not all the information. Enjoy!
Developing energy efficient lifestyles are the first step in reducing the environmental impact that humans have on this earth. I made this Instructable to detail many different ways to reduce your impact. The reader's implementation of the tips I provide is extremely important in reducing our impact on the environment as humans.
If a large amount of people practice small "ways" to decrease the environmental impact, then we have accomplished a great deed. One person utilizing the energy efficient practices is great, but one thousand is even better.
Please share the following tips with your friends, family, and peers. Utilizing energy efficient practices on a large scale is the most important reason I made this Instructable.
I attached a PDF file, it has the gist of the tip, just not all the information. Enjoy!
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Compact fluorescents are a type of fluorescent lamp that uses less energy than a normal incandescent. They have a longer life than incandescent light bulbs, and in the United States, a CFL can save over US$30 in electricity costs over the lamp's lifetime. This is compared to an incandescent lamp and save 2000 times their own weight in Greenhouse Gases.
Here is a good site to help you save electricity.
However, some may argue that CFLs do not last longer, and the recycling of them is a pain. Based on my usage of CFLs, we have only replace one. It seems as if sometimes they are a hit or miss. Sometimes they work great, and other times they are absolutely terrible.
My CFL Instructable will help you out if you have any other questions.
Steps for Purchasing:
1.Well first you have to decide where you will use them. A recommended fixture, is one that is left on 3 or more hours per day. You want to replace the bulbs that you use the most frequently first.
2.Make sure it will fit in your fixture. You wouldn't want to spend money on a CFL, and not have it fit into your fixture!
3.Check to make sure that the CFL is energy star compliant. What is Energy Star Compliant? It is a government that regulates programs and products that help save the environment and save consumers money by using less energy through advanced design or construction.
4.Circline or 2D styles are usually best for most table lamps. These also tend to be the brightest options.
5.Choose the Color Temperature, if listed, that's right for you; for example:
Approx. 2700K = Warm White (looks just like incandescent!)
Approx. 5000K = Cool White (White/Blue, often higher CRI)
6.Does your chosen fixture have a dimmer switch? If so, be sure your CFL choice is labeled to be Dimmable.
7.Avoid using CFL's with photocells unless the control is specifically labeled that is it compatible with CFLs. Timers are an easier option.
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Here is a good site to help you save electricity.
However, some may argue that CFLs do not last longer, and the recycling of them is a pain. Based on my usage of CFLs, we have only replace one. It seems as if sometimes they are a hit or miss. Sometimes they work great, and other times they are absolutely terrible.
My CFL Instructable will help you out if you have any other questions.
Steps for Purchasing:
1.Well first you have to decide where you will use them. A recommended fixture, is one that is left on 3 or more hours per day. You want to replace the bulbs that you use the most frequently first.
2.Make sure it will fit in your fixture. You wouldn't want to spend money on a CFL, and not have it fit into your fixture!
3.Check to make sure that the CFL is energy star compliant. What is Energy Star Compliant? It is a government that regulates programs and products that help save the environment and save consumers money by using less energy through advanced design or construction.
4.Circline or 2D styles are usually best for most table lamps. These also tend to be the brightest options.
5.Choose the Color Temperature, if listed, that's right for you; for example:
Approx. 2700K = Warm White (looks just like incandescent!)
Approx. 5000K = Cool White (White/Blue, often higher CRI)
6.Does your chosen fixture have a dimmer switch? If so, be sure your CFL choice is labeled to be Dimmable.
7.Avoid using CFL's with photocells unless the control is specifically labeled that is it compatible with CFLs. Timers are an easier option.
- Many furnishing stores/hardware stores have boxes to place your broken CFLs to recycle.
- My energy provider gives half off deals for CFLs. Check if yours does! (I have PECO)
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Lowes
Google Shopping
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However, you should only pursue this strategy if you can prevent the humidity in your house from rising again. If you can do this your house will stay "cool", if no you will have about as high of an energy bill as if you were using an air conditioner.
Generally it is easier to seal a house from moisture than to keep heat out, so overall I would recommend dehumidifiers.
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2.5Kg x 3.7 = 9.3Kg of CO2.
Think people! Who cares about the soot! Soot is a speck of carbon! But the plastic lighters do matter.
A Zippo is made from almost entirely metal, hence being completely recyclable. Bic and other crack lighters, however, tend to be made out of plastic.
A smoker might go through over 500 Bic lighters in 10 ( YES TEN ) years. That's $50 a year.
Disposable Bic lighters are $1.
A Zippo has a guaranteed lifetime warranty and I'm sure that any emissions from the Zippo (shipping and mail courier gasoline that it takes when it is time to get it fixed) emits a tenth of the emissions that 500 disposable lighters will take to make, process, ship, and be lost, only to sit in a landfill once found and thrown away.
A Zippo's fuel will last for 10-14 days, with moderate to severe use. A bottle of Ronsonol (Zippo fluid) is $5 for a 12 ounces. A fill up ranges from 0.1 to 0.3 ounces, lasting about 40 refills for the 12 ounce bottle.
Do the math (12/.3=40*10days) equals 400 DAYS FOR $5 for severe use.
That is over a year's worth of fluid for $5! ( I used to lose a disposable lighter once a week. )
TOTAL SAVINGS PER YEAR = more than $33 for the first year ( Cheapest Zippo is $10 ) and every year after that you will save more than $43 with a Zippo over disposable lighters.
BTW, I said $33 and $43 because a flint will last for a good month or so, and I used to go through 6-10 flints a year. ($1 per 6 pack of Zippo flints.)
Also, a wick will last a moderately filled and properly maintained Zippo for a good five to ten years, adding cents per year, but the savings and lessened carbon emissions are MUCH greater than a disposable lighter will cause in it's lifetime.
Thank you,
Aaron
Simple fact is that fuel for Zippo lighters comes in a plastic container. It lasts the typical smoker about a month, then they throw the container away. The user of zippo lighters also has to have a can of fuel for the light around at all times.
If you drop a Zippo lighter while it's lit, it will not go out. Drop a Bic lighter, and it self extinguishes before it is out of your hand. Work for a major construction company sometime. Most of them have banned the use of Zippo lighters on the job because it wont go out.
Cost wise...I pay $1 or $2 per bic lighter. use maybe 4 a year. That's $8 a year. How the heck do you get that and I quote "TOTAL SAVINGS PER YEAR = more than $33 for the first year" When I only spend $8 a year anyway? Are you going to pay me the other $25 a year to use a zippo in which you provide wicks, flints, and fluid for?
What's this about a maintained Zippo? More work for me to do besides filling it, changing flints and changing wicks? There is no maintenance on a Bic lighter.
The self extinguishing has nothing to do with environmental protection, that is just a safety precaution, so that nothing catches fire by accident.
Properly maintained means not lighting it empty, not overfilling it. Flints are cheap and easy to replace. Saying that BICs are more environmentally friendly because they are easier to use doesn't make any sense at all...
For an equivalent amount of use, zippos are cheaper than BICs. Not easier, but cheaper, and more environmentally friendly.
imagine: here in the NL 1 Liter (yes, is really states Liter NOT Gallon) is around 1.70 Euro (!!!). saving some fuel is definately worth it!
Why recycle them when we can stop them from being made?
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There are other gov sites that actually Fine the senders if they deliver again.
There are sites for junk mail too . http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/reducewaste/home/junkmail.htm
Buy it , use it , return it .
Get a tap filter . Get a Jug Filter. (brita, pur,wutever)
Slow drip the tap filter water into the filtered jug.
Slow drip releases the chlorine as gas .
Slow drip gives water longer contact with the dual filters.
Put it in your Reusable bottle.
Best Water Ever
2 other things are aim and flushing . Flushing with the lid Up aerosolize the pee , leaving pee mist all over the bathroom .=) .
Lowering the temperature for a single day will actually cost you more. Always maintaining a temperature at which you are comfortable is the best solution. Maintaining a temperature cost less than having to gain 5-20 degrees.
The reason it's cheaper to maintain a stable temperature is because the heater will only have to work a few seconds from times to times to keep the temperature, if you lower it it will actually have to heat a lot longer to regain that temperature.
If someone doesn't plan on using the spa for more than a week or two, than maybe it will be more efficient to lower the temperature. But it always depends on your climate.
I'm a spa repairman, I have this discussion with customers every other day....
http://www.microsoft-hohm.com/Recommendation/Pool_Reduce_Temperature.aspx
http://www.microsoft-hohm.com/Recommendation/Spa_Reduce_Temperature.aspx
The greater the temperature differential between two bodies [for instance, a spa and its surroundings], the greater the rate of heat transference.
This is simple physics, there is no question that it is correct.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat_capacity#Table_of_specific_heat_capacities