Vytautas Didysis Gymnasium Klaipeda

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Vytautas Didysis Gymnasium Klaipeda
Usage of electricity
Created by ygimantas Mockus and Tautvydas Kedis
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Introduction

• Electricity is needed for improving
  human life quality and developing economy,
  however, it also brings us environmental problems
  such as air, water or soil pollution. It even
  makes life quality worse in less developed
  countries. All issues come from using efficient
  but not renewing resources as gas, coal and
  rock-oil. They vanish quickly too. So the problem
  must be controlled somehow. It is being done by
  EU too by accepting overall agreements and
  ratifying protocols of collective power saving
  and pollution breaking. But from the very
  beginning there are many significant things for
  all us to do. Everyone can do a simple action to
  make Earth a good place to live, so why dont we
  try?

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Experiment

• As weve mentioned in our introduction,
  everyone can do an actions to save the earth from
  the devastation. How to save earth and without
  interrupting your activities? Is that even
  possible? We think that it is. So, we made a
  list of actions that everyone shall make at home.
  If you follow them carefully, in a long run you
  will use less energy. As a result, you will be
  spending less money. We made it ourselves, now
  youll see how it all went.
• In our form, we indicated how often the
  certain action was done0 Never 1 Seldom
  2 Often

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Results
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Results (continued)
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Tips on how to save even more electricity

• Turn off your television, video, computers, and
  other entertainment devices when they are not
  being used.
• Do not leave your television etc in standby mode.
  Devices can use up to 90 as much power in
  standby mode as when they are on, so it is a
  serious waste of energy when a device is left
  constantly on standby.
• Replace all of your inefficient incandescent
  light bulbs with energy efficient CFL bulbs.
  Replace halogen spotlights with much more
  efficient and longer lasting LED Spotlights
• Hang your clothes out to dry rather than using an
  electric drier.

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Tips (continued)

• Cook many items at the same time when your
  electric oven is hot.
• Use a microwave to reheat food or to cook small
  portions. Although a microwave uses a lot of
  power, it does so over a very short time and so
  saves energy overall.
• Turn down your heating system. For every degree
  you lower your heat between 60 and 70 F you can
  save up to 5 on your heating bill. Wear an extra
  layer of clothing in the house so that you stay
  warm. Turn down individual radiators - for
  example, 16-18 is warm enough for bedrooms
  whereas 20-22C is more comfortable in
  bathrooms. Rooms that are rarely used can have
  their heating turned all the way down or off.

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