So recent research into our energy use has yielded fantastic results. As most readers know, we are serious about reducing our energy use. We moved to a small place, we replaced all of our bulbs with CFLs and we have been minimizing electricity use in every way practical.
The other day we went to Energy Star to test our usage. Our total source energy consumption is 51,111 KBTUs which is well below that of 99% of US homes. That is still a lot of energy, we cook and heat with electric. We watch TV in the evenings and use our computers quite a bit, but still we're doing pretty well.
CFL's and unplugging everything when not in use are probably the main reasons for our reduction.
2 comments:
julie are those the bulbs you have to be careful with, if they break they have dangerous gas? i mean it they say to open windows and getout .
They contain recyclable mercury, which yes, is toxic. I've never had one break on me though.
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