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SAVE moneyand SAVE the Planet
Dr. Sandra Cruz-Pol, Professor Electrical
Computer Engineering UPRM
ALIANZA CIUDADANA PARA LA EDUCACIÓN EN ENERGÍA
RENOVABLE

• How To Save 2,000 or more per Year per Residence
  (or Business)
• Turn off (or even better, unplug) electric
  appliances
• (consider a power strip, connect several
  appliances and then turn off the strip when not
  in use).
• Use a regular phone instead of cordless phones
  if possible
• Turn off water faucet,
• Take shower not baths,
• Change shower head to 2.5G per minute
• Clean air-conditioning filters
• (it saves electricity, and its good for your
  health)
• 4. Tune-up car, keep balanced, Accelerate
  minimum only.
• This can increase the MPG by an extra
  10Miles/gallon
• Turn down Water heater, and Air Conditioner
  settings
• Use sheets instead of blankets
• Turn off PC, printers, when not using (unplug
  them)

• Global Warmingcan destroy our planet!
• If we just sit and do nothing about it.
• Follow these tips to save over 2000 a year per
  residence while reducing your emissions to the
  atmosphere and help reduce global warming.

• Scientific consensus is that human activity,
  mainly carbon dioxide emissions, is causing
  global warming.
• Every time we use electricity or gasoline, even
  water, we are sending CO2 emissions to the
  atmosphere.
• GLOBAL WARMING
• Is NOT a theory
• Its happening now
• Some of its consequences are irreversible!

• Phantom Loads- electrical leakage from appliances
  that are OFF.
• Yes, even when OFF, electrical appliances are
  using up electricity!

Small changes, Big impacts!
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