As the price of electric goes up more people are looking for ways to reduce their power bill. One of the largest consumers of electricity in our households is the heating and cooling system.
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Will Reducing Standby Power Save the World?
It won’t save the world, but reducing your consumption of “standby power” in your electronic devices will save both money and resources.
Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient – Leaking
Whether you want to do your bit for the planet or you just want to cut down your electricity bill, ensuring your house isn’t leaking all that warmth outside is going to be good for your pocket, and good for the environment.
Delving Further into the Rebound Effect
Following up on my post about the rebound effect & Jevons paradox, someone commenting on that post added a lot of useful information/ideas.
Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient – Bulbs
Whether you want to do your bit for the planet or you just want to cut down your electricity bill, changing to compact fluorescent bulbs is not only sensible, but damned easy as well.
Is Energy Efficiency Really Good? (A Look at the "Rebound Effect")
While people may increase usage some after switching to a more energy-efficient technology, research has shown pretty conclusively that they don’t do so nearly enough to considerably offset the energy savings. Thus, they do end up decreasing energy usage, not increasing it, in the end.