What can you do to use less electricity?

Answer 1

• walk or ride a bike instead of riding the car.
• turn off the lights when you leave the room
• don't leave the tap running
• take shorter showers
• watch TV for shorter amount of time
• unplug the things you're not using
• use a power bar

sorry... that's all I can think of... hope i helped...

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Answer 2

One way is use Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) instead of incandescent filament lamps. CFLs use only 1/5 (20%) of the electrical energy to produce the same light output. They also last about 5 times longer than incandescents.

So you would most likely save money even if you include the slight extra cost to buy the CFLs.

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To conserve electricity, you can.... *Shut lights off *Use energy-efficient lightbulbs *Shut off the TV, radio, computer, ect. *Recycle (bottles, can, papers, glass, ect.) (When they get recycled, they produce energy) *Lower the heat in the winter by a few degrees *Open a window in the summer instead of turning on the air conditioning

Answer 3

we can turn off the lights when they are not in use, turn off the tv when your not watching it, and turn off the radio when its not being listened to.

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You can buy high efficiency appliances when it comes time to replace them. You can individually look at all your energy usages. You may be able to alter your routine or actions to cut back or avoid the usage all together. Be creative. Don't turn your air conditioner quite so low or your furnace quite so high. Never power anything your are not using. The hardest thing anyone ever has to do is change their routines. Once you are comfortable with a more energy efficient path it will become second nature to you. Baby steps are the best with any change in life.

Answer 4

Turn off lights you're not using.

Use lower wattage lamps.

Use more efficient lights - compact florescent lamps use a fraction of the amount of electricity that incadescent bulbs use -- a 18 watt CF provides about the same light as a 100 watt incandescent bulb does.

Only run the AC during the day and open windows on cool nights. In the morning, close the windows just before it warms up and then don't run the AC till it's about 78°F inside.

Answer 5

That depends on what electrical devices you are using, and how often you use them.

For example, a 100 watt incandescent light bulb uses... 100 watts.

If you use 10 of them for 1 hour, that's 1 kilowatt hour. A kilowatt hour is the standard measure of how much energy your home uses.

However, you could use CF bulbs (that's the little curly ones) that put out approximately the same light for about 18 watts each.

If you use 10 of them for 1 hour, that's .18 kilowatt hours. Quite a savings.

However, you could also use LED bulbs for even more savings. An LED bulb that puts out about the same light as the 100 watt incandescent but only pulls about 8 watts. If you use 10 LED bulbs for 1 hour, you're only using .08 kilowatt hours.

So one way to save electrical energy is to use more efficient devices.

You can also turn off devices that are not in use to save electricity.

As an additional benefit, LED bulbs are estimated to last about 30 years, making them actually less expensive to run than incandescent bulbs which burn out, requiring that you constantly replace them.

Answer 6

Switch off any electrical appliance that is not immediately needed. Don't leave appliances and devices on stand by. Turn down the central heating and don't have it on if the house is empty during the day. Read a book by a forty watt lamp, rather than watch the television with the main lights blazing.

Answer 7

turn off lights when they are not in use

use energy saving bulbs

Answer 8

Limit the use of electrical devices.