52% of residential greenhouse emissions come from the use of electrical
appliances.
Sustainable living is an attitude about your lifestyle. The Vale autonomous
house in UK showed that simply by applying new attitudes towards appliance
usage the household reduced power consumption by 25% without any technical
innovations saving 570 kg of CO2 emissions in the kitchen and laundry
practices alone.
1. Only energy efficient appliances have been purchased as indicated
by the star-rating label. The more stars indicate less energy is used
to achieve the same performance.
2. Appliances will be positioned in well-ventilated areas to maximize
their efficiency.
3. Appliances are not used when an alternative is available. Use
a cool ventilated pantry for storage of produce, passive design strategies
instead of using heaters and cooling equipment, clothes line instead
of dryer etc.
4. Appliances that draw power on a standby mode will all be turned
off using a switch located at the front door. This switch will be
separate from appliances such as the refrigerator.
Did you know that many appliances in your house will use more power
per day in standby mode then they do being used. Consider your printer
that draws 120 watts when in use, and 5 watts when in stand by. You
use it for 5 minutes per day. 120w @ 5minutes = 10w. on standby it
draws 2w/hour. 2w x 24hour = 48w. This is nearly 5 times the power
used for the appliance when it is in use.
Consider how this will add up when you consider the computer, microwave,
phone charger, DVD player, sterio. It is estimated that up to 8% of
your household power consumption is used by standby power.
5. A master switch will turn off all non essential power when we
leave our home. Similar to the system seen in motels.
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