I measured the exact numbers with the computer plugged into a usage meter. SSDs are even cheaper now than they were at that time, and even though they are still noticeably more than a regular hard drive, the energy savings will cover that cost very quickly.
When I need to replace my remaining hard drive, it will also be and SSD. Sorry, my note should have been to kgkicker, not Daniel Branton. Some good ideas - but just one point: Why choose fluorescent lights when you can use LED? Fluorescent lights are not suitable for everyone and still use more electricity than LED. Note to Daniel Branton - they did address your question by saying that only insulating the beds just didn't do it for them, and I can attest to that.
In winter, it can take me hours to warm the bed up enough with just body heat and during that time I'm not sleeping. The use of a small heating pad for minutes before bed time, placed just right, means I can go to sleep almost immediately. I turn off the pad before falling asleep and, unless it's very cold, don't use it for the rest of the night. Why not just get better blankets and eliminate bed heating altogether? The Dryer vent was a really neat idea!
I discovered this out of desperation last winter. Our furnace went out and the repairman was not going to be able to make it out for several days. I have a large family, 6 children , so we do a lot of laundry. On average we do 2 loads per day. I had two small space heaters. I place those in what ever part of the house we were in at the moment. Then I unhooked the dryer vent and ran it into the main part of the house. I plugged the vent going outside and place a pillowcase over the dryer vent.
This kept our house pretty warm while in use. The added moisture was a bonus since I am in a dry climate. Hi Vincent -- There are lots of them out there. If you go to Amazon and search for "heated mattress pad" several are listed.
We use a Westpoint Stevens and its still going strong after several years. We have added them to all the bedrooms. The saving on the two computers AND all peripherals was done very carefully took half a day with a KillAWatt -- your results may vary and computers are getting better, but the savings is well worth while. Certainly agree that using a clothes line instead of a dryer is a big saving -- about KWH a year for a family according to a CA study.
The main idea of the article was to point out how a few well chosen for your situation ideas can save a lot of energy and offer a very high return. The information I would have liked to see in this article is where to get heated mattress pads for AC systems.
I've seen many for DC systems, but I live in a standard apartment and I'm pretty sure my landlord doesn't want me to rewire the place. I could set up a transformer, but that's pretty lossy. Probably still better than turning up the heat, but I'd rather just be able to plug it in and turn all that electricity into heat for my bed, rather than using some of it to heat the unused space under my bed.
Hmmm - the math doesn't seem to work re: yearly savings and 10 year savings? Some of these savings seem very large as well - 2 computers for example. Now that it's been a couple of years, can you please confirm the savings. One thing that the author missed that is easy and also has huge energy savings is outdoor lighting. This is incredibly wasteful. Fully shielded lights that direct light downward to where it needs to light are FAR better at lighting, while using less light to do it.
The additional benefits of this are increased security due to the light being placed where it needs to be and better seeing at night due to less glare. I recently went to a home improvement store and of the hundred or so lights was appalled to find only TWO that fully shielded the light and directed it downwards. But there are sites out there which sell these lights, and they are comparable in cost to other new lights. So when putting these in, you can use a lower wattage bulb saving money over time for a similar up-front cost for the fixture.
One last additional benefit: You'll see more stars at night, because you won't be contributing to light pollution. Easy project; big rewards. I mocified a five gallon kerosene water heater that was no lomger in use. Now it is warming 55 degree F. The recycled heater now gets degree air blown through by a woodstove made in Virgina.
Now uses wood fuel instead of kerosene to send warm water through the cold water supply pipe of my electric water heater. The stove is EPA certified and as long as there is city water pressure you can have a hot shower during a power outage using the wood heater. The gap between the top of the firebox and the water tank can be adjusted to maintain a safe water temperature without boiling so no circulator pumps are needed. I burn wood for at least six months per year. There is still enough room on top of the woodstove for a coffee pot during power outages.
Great except for electric mattress pad heater. I bought one and very soon started to feel fatigued every morning. Turns out it had magnetized the steel bed springs. Moving a hikers compass from head of bed to foot caused the needle to gyrate.
I took the electric pad off and used a plug in bulk demagnetizer from Radio shack to demagnetize the springs by running it from head to foot of bed. Had to do it 10 times to cover the full surface of the bed. Re-checking with compass now showed no gyration and I no longer felt fatigued.
Plan to get a futon no metal springs so I can put the mattress pad back on. Over the years we have Colorado : 1. Our monthly public service bill is slightly less than it was 23 years ago, yet we added a 1, s. We are also looking at installing a new hybrid electric water heater that uses a heat pump system. We will be tearing an old shed down this summer offering the old wood on freecycle.
We are using opaque fiberglass panels for the roof and are going to take a crack at installing a solar panel to operate a small pump in our cistern next to the shed that irrigates our garden.
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