Can anybody suggest ways and mean to save electricity nd fuel?

Question

this is my Ev.Ed. Project and am desperately looking 4 some new ways ..... am fedup of all those old facts like switchin of switches after use etc.

Answer 1

Keep your car's radiator and air conditioning coils clean so the vehicle runs at peak efficiency. Make sure your oil is the proper kind and clean as well. Plan running errands that have to be done with your car ahead of time, like using the shortest route possible, with as few as stop and starts as possible. Walk when you can instead of drive.

   At home use a programmable thermostat to control your air conditioning and heating during sleep and and peak use. Make sure your condenser and evaporator coils in your air conditioner are clean. Change the air filter regularly. I hope this helps give you a few ideas.

Answer 2

Keep the fuel in containers that wouldn't degrade over time and the electricity in high capacity batteries.

Answer 3

There are two major areas that the utility companies can work on to rationalize energy use thus save electricity. One is known as Demand Side Management (DSM). The other is managing 'Line Loss'.

Under DMS, several things can be done. For example,

Actual Peak Reduction - The actual reduction in annual peak load (measured in kilowatts) achieved by consumers that participate in a utility DSM program. It reflects the changes in the demand for electricity resulting from a utility DSM program that is in effect at the same time the utility experiences its annual peak load, as opposed to the installed peak load reduction capability.

Direct Load Control - DSM program activities that can interrupt consumer load at the time of annual peak load by direct control of the utility system operator by interrupting power supply to individual appliances or equipment on consumer premises. This type of control usually involves residential consumers.

Energy Efficiency - DSM programs that are aimed at reducing the energy used by specific end- use devices and systems, typically without affecting the services provided. These programs reduce overall electricity consumption (reported in megawatthours), often without explicit consideration for the timing of program-induced savings. Such savings are generally achieved by substituting technologically more advanced equipment to produce the same level of end-use services (e.g., lighting, heating, motor drive) with less electricity.

Other Load Management - DSM programs other than Direct Load Control and Interruptible Load that limit or shift peak load from on-peak to off-peak time periods. It includes technologies that primarily shift all or part of a load from one time-of-day to another and secondarily may have an impact on energy consumption. Examples include space heating and water heating storage systems, cool storage systems, and load limiting devices in energy management systems. This category also includes programs that aggressively promote time-of-use (TOU) rates and other innovative rates such as real time pricing.

Potential Peak Reduction - The potential annual peak load reduction (measured in kilowatts) that can be deployed from Direct Load Control, Interruptible Load, Other Load Management, and Other DSM Program activities.It represents the load that can be reduced either by the direct control of the utility system operator or by the consumer in response to a utility request to curtail load.

Transmitting electricity at high voltage reduces the fraction of energy lost to  heating. This loss popularly referred to as Line Loss limits the economic feasibility of long-distance electricity transmission.  Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated at 7.2% and in the UK at 7.4% during the 1990s. Using better technology, super conductor materilas and grid monitoring can ensure minimum losses thereby saving electricity.

So apart from switching off switches there's tons of other things to do as well........

Answer 4

just live close to where you work and shop.  if you live 5 miles away you will use half as much fuel as if you live 10 miles away

Answer 5

Some sick ways to save on fuel?  Here's some information.  Nuclear power plants, though they produce toxic waste, are the most fuel efficient form of energy around today.  Getting your government to switch to nuclear energy could mean trillions of tons of greenhouse gases eliminated instantly.  It would also make the electric car feasible, as the energy used to charge them doesn't burn fuel.

In terms of nuclear waste, we can bury that so deep into the earth that it will never effect us.  It will have decayed before it reaches the surface again.  Old diamond mines in Africa go so far down that they are heated simply by proximity to the earth's magma core (115-130 F).

In terms of something that everyone can do, it is baby steps.  But you can take bigger steps by taking initiative in your community.  If you can make enough waves in your community, rather than one person changing, you'll have hundreds changing.

Good luck.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Try to cut down on using your appliances during high peak times such as during the hours of 9a-5p. When you drive, drive the SPEED LIMIT, don't lead foot it. Better yet, walk to work if possible, carpool or share the driving duties with co-workers if conveinent. Use a thermostat on your heater/air condtioner. If several people are at hoem at the same time, try to use as few rooms as possible for all your activities. Like if you are watching t.v. maybe your kids can use the laptop in the same room: if someone is reading, they could use earplugs if the noise bothers them. The point is to be in the same room. It also contributes to more togetherness even though you may be participating in different activities.

Answer 8

Driving style can save quite a lot of fuel: every time you use the accelerator OR the brake you are using more energy.  So, try to avoid braking by "reading the road" and using natural slowing. If you have a manual shift, use lower gears as a braking technique, especially on downward slopes. After a certain point, every vehicle starts consuming disproportionately more to get small increases in speed.  Hence, find that point for your vehicle and stay below it.  

Remember that time savings from higher speeds are not that big, and anyhow you could just plan the journey carefully so as not to need to hurry.  Finally, smallish motorbikes use very little fuel but can still give some speed.  I have a 125 cc. that gets about 100 miles to the gallon, but can reach 70 m.p.h. if needed.

Answer 9

Fuel-ride a bicycle as often as you can, check your tire pressure to increase gas mileage, condense errands so that you aren't all over town every day, buy a hybrid, convert your car to an electric car, keep your furnace on as low as comfortable,

electricity-unplup when not in use, turn off manually (no remote), turn lights off when you leave a room, use timers on things, use CFLs (they have some mercury, but less than what is released during the production of incandescents),

Answer 10

If you want creative, develop a microbe that eats copper, set it loose to eat all the wire.  Then we can't use electricity.

Answer 11

For saving fuel, I am buying a Vespa Scooter to use to run errands, to and from school and it gets 75 miles per gallon.

I also take Public Transportation.

Installing Solar Panels for heating a swimming pool can help on heating bills.

Switching your incandescent lightbulbs to LEDs and add a window or skylight to make the most of natural lighting.

You can also utilize a Sunlight-Transport Device to collect sunlight on your roof and funnel it via fiber optics to different rooms in your house – completely eliminating the need for artificial lighting.

Answer 12

Clearly the government is NOT doing their job as far as US energy policy. If we cut back the US consumption of oil by about 50%, we could not only be almost 100% self sufficient in producing our own oil, the bottom would drop out of the price of oil world-wide. That alone would effectively defund most of the cash used by terrorists and provide a HUGE boost to the economies of almost every country in the world. Hello dot com days to the stock markets across the world. How would one get this to happen? By getting real with energy policy. For example:

1. Sure we can use "sticks", like extra taxes on fuel hog cars/trucks/etc, but with carrots too. Give the owner of any car (mostly hybrids) that gets better than 40 MPG (EPA rated) a $1,000 tax credit for every year the owner has current tags and insurance for that vehicle. So even if hybrids are $5k more, eventually if you keep it you will get paid back for the extra expense. If we added a nickel a gallon tax for the only purpose to fund these credits, this would be revenue neutral for the government for quite a few years.

2. Mandate new construction homes have a minimun of 2,000 watts of solar panels on the roof if the location is sunny enough to justify their use. It would only slightly raise the mortgage payment and would reduce the utility bills more than it increases the montly mortgage payment. Make similar requirements on new commercial construction. We are told that the infrastructure for our power distribution system is old and greatly in need of upgrading at many billions of dollars. Power users will ultimately pay for those upgrades (that's us). If we mandate more solar where appropriate, we can significanltly delay those upgrades as more and more of us will be making our own power and not require getting it from the power grid. This would also make power failures like California had less likely. Peak loads are always during the day when you just happen to get peak sunshine, right? I have a 2,000 watt system on my roof and my electric bills are about $20/month now.

3. Mandate efficency standards for all appliances sure, but don't forget the little stuff, such as the power adapters we use for a thousand different things. Digital switching power supplies use far less standby power than the old style ones and cost perhaps a dollar more, worth the cost. Insist anything people plug into the wall have as little standby useage as truly required. (Think DVDs, stereo, TV, computers, clocks, cordless phones, etc.) Just remember that for every kilowatt you use in your home, the power plant had to produce 3.3 kilowatts to get it to your house after taking transmission losses into account.

4. Build more nuclear power plants from the latest designs available and standardize them so construction costs are lower. Provide incentives for power companies to build them instead of being a roadblock to limit them from being added to our power grid.

5. Provide higher long term credits for power companies and home-owners and businesses to add solar (photovoltaic) and wind power to the power grids nationwide. More construction would include these things if they were sure that the owners would get a credit when construction is completed. Many projects take years to complete and who wants to risk that 1/2 way through the project congress cancels the credit? If more of these systems were purchased, the prices for them would drop due to higher (mass) production.

6. Mandate minimum levels of insullation on existing homes and provide assistance to low income to help them comply to the higher standards. Poor people would benefit a lot if their utility bills dropped by 50%, wouldn't they? Rich guys don't need to care how much they are paying as they have the cash to pay the bills for power and heating, but no-one should be allowed to be "too wastefull". I don't care if you think you need a 10,000 square foot home, but at least make it energy efficient of even self sufficient if possible.

This is just a start, but many different solutions make sense. There is no one magic bullit, but taken as a whole, many small improvements can get us there. Demand your goverment do more than it is doing now, which is little more than nothing. Write your representatives and suggest some things to them and if they don't take action, boot them out next election cycle.

Answer 13

What scale are you talking about?  The person who's stuck with their car and house?  Or the society which is willing to invent radical new technologies?

Personally, fuel: I just talked to a guy who manages fueling and maintenance for a fleet of automobiles. He confirmed what I already suspected: Personal driving style can change a car's fuel economy by as much as 20%.  So driver education is where it's at.

Personally, house: you know the basics. Now let's go deeper. A lot of people run screaming from costs like $20,000 for a major efficiency upgrade (insulation, solar system etc.) But hold on, let's look closer.  What if that $20,000 was folded into their mortgage?  At 6%, $1000 more mortgage costs $6 more per month (just happens to work out that way).  So a $20,000 additional mortgage adds $120/month to your mortgage.  But wait! Mortgages are tax deductible, and most homeowners pay are in a 25%-40% incremental tax bracket.  So really it's $72-90 after taxes.  If they save more, they are financially ahead from day one!   Here the key is financial intelligence.

Socially, electricity: It's really about efficient homes, and making hyper-efficient homes is a solved problem.  Look at earth-sheltered homes and the off-grid power movement, which uses hyper-efficient electric appliances (which are far cheaper than the solar/wind generating capacity to run less efficient appliances).

Socially, fuel: Hybrids for efficiency, and plug-in hybrids to exploit off-peak power capacity to move cars more with electricity and less with fuel.  Power generating capacity is not a problem, says the government.  Someday over the rainbow there might be hydrogen fuel cells, but we'd be fools to do nothing til it comes.

Answer 14

Ok first let's start with petrol Buy a Bicycle and use it frquently and use your car or bike only when goin' for long distances it helps u save fuel and also u gain physical activity

Electricity

Nothing to say use it wisely and don't use u'r Ipod Radio TV Laptop all at the Same time

Answer 15

car pooling saves fuel.  Get the flurscent bulbs that replace regular incandescent bulbs.