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How to Save Energy and Money!

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Surprisingly simple steps on how to help your bank account and our planet...
12 comments
Apr 8, 2008. 7:05 PMWhoTookMudshark says:
Ceiling fans produce heat as they spin, and cost money to power. I don't think that using them is a very economical solution.
May 8, 2009. 4:25 PMemplehnial says:
An AC unit cost about 26-30 cents a min. to run while a fan only cost 1 cent to run, then there is the added benefit that others are mentioning...Cool air is lower to the thermostat. so it does not have to kick on the AC unit that much.
Jul 20, 2008. 3:40 PMjuasnita says:
fans should be turned off when you leave a room, generally. Here's a tip, in the summer have a thermometer inside and out, and if it is cooler outside than in, you should open the windows. If it is hot outside, you should close them.
Jun 18, 2008. 12:16 AMnightninja87 says:
wow ty i never knew of the switch on the fan now my rooms alot cooler ty i love u!
Apr 17, 2008. 2:55 PMbec says:
why would you turn it up in the summer?
May 4, 2008. 11:20 AMharlyquin says:
because then your air conditioner won't kick in unless it's 2 degrees hotter. Air conditioning is as you may recall the cause of just about every brown/black out in the USA. This gives me an excuse to get naked from june til september - - for the environment...
Apr 7, 2008. 9:30 PMshooby says:
26 power plants- sorry, that's not a unit of energy.

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