During the last few decades we have added greater numbers of appliances, electronics
and entertainment systems to our homes. While these make our lives additionally
comfortable and our spare time increasingly enjoyable, they also pose a serious problem -
they consume lot’s of power.

In the early industrialized society it was naturally the factories that consumed the
most of the energy, and they still are heavy users. But modern man has amped up his
personal usage of energy to higher levels than ever before.

For the corporations it is a simple matter of economy - energy conservation can push up
the yearly revenue by a great deal. A typical consumer on the other hand use up a lot of
power, mostly electricity, for no good reason whatsoever.

No? Shaking your head in disbelief at the above statement?

Well, how recently was it you didn’t turn off your computer “seeing that it takes so
long to start back up”, how much is your television turned on without you in fact
watching, do you keep indoor temperatures at a level where you could walk around in your
undies all day even in the winter, etc. ?

Or maybe you are one among those “sporty car owners” who can’t even make it across a
parking lot without flooring it?

A majority of people would probably answer yes to many of the questions above, and that
means they are using way more energy than they really require to. In fact, a majority of
folks are spending hundreds on electricity they don’t even realize they are employing. As
an illustration, leaving you television set in stand-by mode (when the little red light is
on and you can turn it on with the remote) will at all times draw energy and can cost you
more than 100 dollars over the course of an entire year.

And by adopting a more relaxed driving style with your motorcar - not the same as
driving as a snail, mind you - you can save not simply on fuel, but on tires and the rest
of the automobile as well.

If the entire population of a large country like the US could manage to actually turn
off their television every night, instead of leaving it in standby mode, that would
quickly be equivalent of the power from an entire nuclear power plant. Why do we make
things more difficult than they are?

Charles Hawkins is an editor at Knowmoreabout.net, and he tries to be friendly to the environment as much as possible. You can get many practical tips on home energy consumption from the Knowmoreabout.net home energy portal.

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