doug Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Save energy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike567 Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 I turn everything off when I go bed, 1 thing I leave on stand by is the tv in the bed room once your close to the land of nod you don't want to get up and turn off the tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchful Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 We also turn everything off at night B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Oh without doubt I shall turn of the standby light on my telly and the pilot light on the fridge...even though that means turning the entire fridge off. Anything to allow the Palace of Westminster, Picadilly Circus, and all the city centres and advertising hoardings in the country etc. to remain illuminated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 I find myself turning lights off behind other people constantly. Off Topic, but interesting little calculator I found on a leaky faucet. Hard to believe a small leak can lead to so much wasted water.I have 5 faucets, and if each was dripping only 5 times / minute; thats 4380 liters / year. :0http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sc4.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 I find myself turning lights off behind other people constantly.As it is only Mrs. DW and myself now, I only have one person I constantly need to turn lights off for. And it is a constant. We switched many of the lights in our house over to those swirly fluorescent energy savings type. But we do keep 2 lights (low wattage fluorescent) on 24/7 including, mainly for security.Our big utility bills in the winter are for heating (natural gas) and in the summer (air conditioning). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Not so much of a problem over here SM. Those calculations are based on US gallons ~3.9 litres/US gallon, we, over this side of the pond, get 4.55 litre/Imperial gallon! Also this is a small contribution to the cost of fuel in our gas stations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 We switched many of the lights in our house over to those swirly fluorescent energy savings type. But we do keep 2 lights (low wattage fluorescent) on 24/7 including, mainly for security.Our big utility bills in the winter are for heating (natural gas) and in the summer (air conditioning).We as well have switched to the flourescent lighting. Saves energy and they last longer too. B) I use a corn furnace to heat my home, and a good old fashioned window to cool it down so I'm not worried about that :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 We switched many of the lights in our house over to those swirly fluorescent energy savings type. But we do keep 2 lights (low wattage fluorescent) on 24/7 including, mainly for security.Our big utility bills in the winter are for heating (natural gas) and in the summer (air conditioning).We as well have switched to the flourescent lighting. Saves energy and they last longer too. B) I use a corn furnace to heat my home, and a good old fashioned window to cool it down so I'm not worried about that :)It got up to 50+F today. I love those kind of temperatures in February!BTW: What is a corn furnace? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Instead of gas or electricity my home is heated by burning corn. It also warms the water before it reaches the water heater to save energy there as well ;)And we hit ~32-35 at most today. brrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Instead of gas or electricity my home is heated by burning corn. It also warms the water before it reaches the water heater to save energy there as well ;)And we hit ~32-35 at most today. brrrrrDo you own a farm or do you have a cheap source for corn? How do you stoke the boiler? Manually like the old coal fired boilers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 My father works at a farm just up the way, and the owner allows us to take all the corn we need. It just runs off harvested corn, and it is started like an old wood stove. Once the fire is going, the corn burns extremely hot and creates coals almost immediately which keeps it going. The only power we use is a fan which distributes the heat throughout the house.It works out to roughly half the cost of natural gas, but as we get the corn for free it's no comparison :)http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/?p=2237 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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