Saving Energy

Yes, today I’m writing about how you can conserve electricity and why you should.

So Why Should I?

Well, there are several reasons to try to conserve energy. First, and probably most important to many people, you can save money by using less energy, and who couldn’t use more money. Second, you hate brownouts and blackouts, right? By conserving energy, you can help prevent these nuisances. Now number three: oil. As I’ve said before the energy produced in an oil power plant helps make OPEC rich at your country’s expense. All fossil fuel power plants also help produce smog. Even if you get your energy from a nuclear power plant instead of fossil fuels, you still want to keep their number to a minimum. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, need I say more? Next, for the environmentalists, you need resources to build power plants, most of which are taken out of, you guessed it, nature. Finally, power plants take up space. Build less of them and you have more free space for farms, apartments, offices and whatnot.

Turning Things Off

The easiest thing you can do is turn stuff off when you’re not using it.

Light Bulbs

Many people still use the old tungsten filament light bulbs (the round ones with that little thing inside, also called incandescent). They let off a lot of heat, which means you lose all that energy. The more tube-shaped flourescent light bulbs let off very little heat compared to the incandescent ones, meaning they use a lot less energy to do the same thing.

“Energy Star”

You might’ve seen electronics or appliances that have a little logo that says “Energy Star” or something like that. This logo means that that particular item uses less energy to do the same job as others of that kind of appliance. (Don’t worry: it’s efficient, not lazy)

But That’s not All:

That’s right, there’re a lot more ways to save energy out there. There’re probably a lot more places devoted to helping people save energy, like California’s “Flex Your Power” organization. All you have to do is look.