My name is Justin Luyt. I started this blog in the midst of out 2008/9 recession with the purpose of helping others reduce their monthly expenses. All around our homes we have a multitude of devices, tapping into your bank account every day.With the economy in the slumps it is now even more important to conserve our money and energy alike. For those of us wanting an energy efficient home, it takes money to save money in the energy tax credit game, but in this article I want to share with you some of my findings about possible energy tax credits you can take advantage of.
Today I wanted to talk about a cool invention on a hot topic. After all, saving the environment, carbon footprint, carbon credits and debits, all these terms are the rage now. A lot of things that were acceptable even 10 to 15 years back have been blacklisted and may soon proceed to being banished for good! Gas guzzling SUVs, generating stations using fossil fuels, logging, non renewable fuel, non renewable fishing methods – the list is endless. Incandescent lamps being another one of them.
Both Microsoft and Google have been developing tools to monitor consumer electricity use. Their game plan is to engage energy providers to use their platform and in turn offer their customers a nice intuitive reporting tool to give their customers better insight how they are using electricity. Both these companies have something in place on the platform side, but the task of bringing partners onboard to use their solution is a slow one.
Tonight I want to share with you all energy saving factors I found on my Home Theater Receiver. The receiver I have is a KLH R5100 Receiver. It has been a wonderful entry-level receiver that has served me well. Being a physically big unit, I thought it will be drawing lots of electricity – surprise.
We all love our home entertainment systems since they supply us hours of joy watching blockbusters from Hollywood right in our own TV room at home. But when it comes to electricity saving, we do not frequently think how much electricity those devices consume. Today, I took my Kill-A-Watt Electricity Meter and measured how much my personal entertainment system consumes – specially our Dish Network DVR. To my amazement, as a whole the Sony WEGA FD Trinitron TV, Dish Network DVR, KLH Receiver and Nintendo Wii together was consuming over 150 Watt of energy.
Getting something for free is always nice. With July 4th just around the corner we are in the peak of our warmest season again. Every time I hear the air conditioner kick in, I am just again reminded of the month-end electricity bill coming. But there is good news on the horizon.
