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Save money cutting business energy costs
Posted by Admin in Reduce Energy Usage on November 22nd, 2010
Learn about the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme and how company’s face fines of £5,000+ for not registering on time.
The new scheme is aimed at saving organisations around one billion pound per year by 2020, by ensuring they become more energy efficient. This will see large organisations like supermarkets, hotels, pharmaceutical companies, betting, travel, department stores, hospitals, local authorities and central government improving their energy efficiency and in a period of huge cuts saving money year in-year out.
BT’s Carbon Impact Assessment can help your organisation meet the challenge to save energy and cut your energy costs. In just days it will help you understand and assess your carbon impact providing analysis of your energy usage, workforce, and travel practices to help you identify the areas that impact on your organisation’s CO2 emissions. BT can also help you explore how sustainable practices and intelligent IT can lower your carbon emissions, reduce costs, and increase efficiency.
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Tellings use Microsoft Hohm to save money and energy
Posted by Admin in Reduce Energy Usage on August 23rd, 2010
The Tellings are on a quest to make thier house more enrgy efficient. They’re using http://www.microsoft-hohm.com to recieve tip for energy efficent upgrades and to monitor their energy usage
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Is it Possible to Build Homemade Windmills?
Posted by Admin in Homemade Windmills on September 15th, 2009
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Is it Possible to Build Homemade Windmills?
Some people have made a lot of homemade windmills in their backyard that do not even look like the traditional ones that you have probably seen, though the concept is the same and it does a more efficient job. Building one and installing it in your home can really save you a lot in power costs. You may also opt to use solar panels. They have no movable parts, but they take longer to store power and may not work that efficiently during cloudy days.
First, let us discuss the concept of a windmill. Windmills are mechanical machines which catch the wind force through blades to generate power directly or store it in a battery. A smaller system can be used to pump water, having a direct drive shaft which is connected together by sets of gears. From the blades, the gears increase the number of times the pump moves so that it will take little turns for more pumping of water. This can be stored in a water tank. If you have no need of water, all you must do is free wheel the blades from the gears through a lever. This will detach the connection between the blades and the pump. Or there are some systems where they collapse the blades so they do not catch the wind. This is useful when there are storms with strong winds.
The speed of such a mechanical device is determinant on its height, length, and pitch of the blades. The height will allow you to catch a range of winds. You may not need that big a machine. You just need to elevate it through the use of a tower. The length, the number, and the angle of the blades are computed based on the speed of the winds that you expect.
Larger ones can be used to power some electrical appliances in your home. These work by generating current then storing it into a series of car or truck batteries. You can either use a battery inverter for you to be able to convert these to 110V or your appliances have to be in 12V or 24V so you can plug it directly to the battery.
Try searching the Internet for designs of your windmill. There is even a design that looks like a coiled egg, and it works more efficiently than most modern blade type designs. There are also some vendors for these and some may not be that expensive. If you do not have any idea about the installation, do not try it on your own. There are computations and factors for making cheap and efficient homemade windmills.
Tired of high electric bills? Discover how thousands of families are using homemade windmill power systems to power their homes!
Is it Possible to Build Homemade Windmills?
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Home Solar And Wind Power Systems
Posted by Admin in Home Wind Power on September 14th, 2009
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Home Solar And Wind Power Systems
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Reduce energy usage
Posted by Admin in Reduce Energy Usage on August 11th, 2009
The most dificult day of every month is when time comes to pay bills and mostly the enormous electricity bills that we get. It’s high time and we need to take serious measures to reduce the power bill. Do not worry. We will share some key tips and will make you reach your goal.
Make sure to discuss with family member about the importance of saving electricity. You can reward them a treat if their participation has led to savings. Suggest them some tips like switching of the lights when they are not present there and attending a call in another room or having dinner at the dining table. Make sure to switch off all the appliances even if you are sure to be back in five minutes. Yes, that will help a lot. Every drop of water makes an ocean.
We may prefer to switch off the television set or turn off the fan, but not the tubelight.We need light at the time of night but see that the usage is required in all the rooms or not.Taking care of such these small precautions will surely leads us to savings in the long run by reducing the bills of the power demon.
One should plan to invest smartly on power. Replace all the incandescent bulbs present in the house with compact fluorescent light or those CFL bulbs. These bulbs consume less electricity as they consume less power.
Buy the energy saver gadgets that are available in the market. Such gadgets will monitor the intake of the entire power supply in your house and makes you take decision on how to control the usage.
Most of us assume on the fact that the rise in electricity bill is due to the vast number of electrical items present at home. But the truth is that the electricity bill is not directly connected or affected due to the number of gadgets, but by the way one uses them.
Take a step forward to avoid using those typical items regularly that consumes lot of power -
• The washing machine should be used only when there is a bucket full of clothes.
• The geyser should not be kept on for maximum amount of time.
• The air-conditioner should be kept at minimum high or low temperature.
• Take note to switch off the computer monitor when not in use. It consumes maximum power and it just takes a second to switch it again.
Lastly we suggest that for reducing the electricity bill by taking benefit of reading the energy saving guide like Earth4Energy that has some of the best solutions to generate energy at home and providing free electricity to some of your home appliances. In this way we can save power that is facing a huge shortage because of the large demand in the global countries. Try to reduce the requirement of those electrical wires and sockets for home and use the renewable energy extracted from natural resources like wind, sun, tides at a lesser price but having a long term returns.
Make power at home with solar and wind energy to eliminate your power bill. Get our complete guide at www.earth4energy.com