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How Would You Spend Your Daily 100 watts?
Using this handy-dandy calculator I learned that mindless Watt-for-Watt replacement will cost me approximately 13 years worth of electric bills. That suggests that the cost of one year’s electric bills would supply approximately 1/20th of my current usage! If my math is correct, that works out to 200 Watts during the daylight hours or 100 Watts over 24 hours.
Cell phones, lap-top, LED lights, sump-pump (emergency), water pump (intermittent), and a ceiling fan (summer) are about all I could probably manage. The furnace is gone because it has a huge blower motor and winter, in Michigan, has terrible solar availability. Wood-stove is the way to go.
Good-bye electric hotwater heater. Good-bye electric clothes drier.
One Comment on "How Would You Spend Your Daily 100 watts?"
hoangkybactien on Fri, 21st May 2010 10:51 pm
Very good article!
A great step in the right direction.
HVAC system, electric hot-water heater, electric cloth dryer are indeed more like luxury than needy stuff.
With the way mass media are doing business, TV sets have become a lot less usefulness compared to internet. So, TV is very little of use in my family. We use internet as a library, a learning center, an entertainment center, references, etc…, and it still consumes less power than a TV set.
Use 13watts compact flourescent bulbs insteads of the 75W/100W incandescent bulbs will save a lot of power, too.
Refrigerator is a need, but unless you always have a large bunch of foods need kept cold, use two small refrigerators instead of a big one will save you a lot of power and increase redundancy too. When one is not in use, you can just unplug it off.
There are many ways to live a humble life, and save money + headaches + hassels + environments.
Look at the Tibetan people in Tibet, barely own any thing valuable, and yet there is always a fresh and friendly smille on the face.
May Tibet and Tibetan people survive brutalities brought on them by the barbaric RED monsters.