Comments on: Sam’s Household Energy Usage http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/07/sams-household-energy-usage/ Green News, Reviews and Tips Wed, 05 May 2010 19:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Google PowerMeter – Tracking your energy usage. | PlentyWays Green Blog http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/07/sams-household-energy-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Google PowerMeter – Tracking your energy usage. | PlentyWays Green Blog Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:03:02 +0000 http://www.plentyways.com/blog/?p=6#comment-66 [...] Powermeter is a new software tool that has been developed to help people track and analyze their home energy usage. The tool will provide a graphical interface that shows, in real time, how much electricity your [...] [...] Powermeter is a new software tool that has been developed to help people track and analyze their home energy usage. The tool will provide a graphical interface that shows, in real time, how much electricity your [...]

]]> By: Sam http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/07/sams-household-energy-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Sam Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:25:52 +0000 http://www.plentyways.com/blog/?p=6#comment-14 Hi Solar Fred, That's a good point. The amount each bulb cost would probably be saved in energy savings within a couple of weeks. In fact it's probably pretty easy to work out. A single 60W bulb from my local Tesco supermarket costs about €1, the online shop tells me (expensive!). If I replace it with a 13W CFL bulb (equivalent brightness) that I use for around 4 hours a day then I'll save 188 watt-hours a day. My electricity rate is around 15c per kwh, so that's a daily saving of 2.82c. This means the electricity savings will pay for the discarded incandesant in just 35 days! So energy saving bulbs vs an incandesant is a no-brainer. Having said that, throwing out a perfectly good bulb seems a bit wasteful, and I'm not sure which is 'greener'. I think for the moment I'll take the daily 2.82c hit. On another note - the CFL's I've been using so far (Tesco Greener living) don't produce the nicest light - it's a little bit greyer than I'm used to. Anyone have any recommendations really nice CFL bulbs ? (for UK/Ireland) Hi Solar Fred,

That’s a good point. The amount each bulb cost would probably be saved in energy savings within a couple of weeks. In fact it’s probably pretty easy to work out.
A single 60W bulb from my local Tesco supermarket costs about €1, the online shop tells me (expensive!). If I replace it with a 13W CFL bulb (equivalent brightness) that I use for around 4 hours a day then I’ll save 188 watt-hours a day. My electricity rate is around 15c per kwh, so that’s a daily saving of 2.82c. This means the electricity savings will pay for the discarded incandesant in just 35 days!

So energy saving bulbs vs an incandesant is a no-brainer. Having said that, throwing out a perfectly good bulb seems a bit wasteful, and I’m not sure which is ‘greener’. I think for the moment I’ll take the daily 2.82c hit.

On another note – the CFL’s I’ve been using so far (Tesco Greener living) don’t produce the nicest light – it’s a little bit greyer than I’m used to. Anyone have any recommendations really nice CFL bulbs ? (for UK/Ireland)

]]> By: Solar Fred http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/07/sams-household-energy-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Solar Fred Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.plentyways.com/blog/?p=6#comment-13 Hey there, great info. Keep up the great posts. I'm a fellow tweeter and friend of SolaRoy, btw. One thing to note here on this post about your light bulbs: If you're planning to stay where you are for the next year or so, it's more cost effective to replace your incandescent bulbs now than to wait until they burn out. Seems like a waste, but you're only throwing away a 50 cent (pence?) bulb and saving a lot more in pounds/euro in monthly electricity costs, especially when you're heading into the darker winter months. Of course, if you're only going to be there for a few months, perhaps not, especially if you have many bulbs to replace. :) Hey there, great info. Keep up the great posts. I’m a fellow tweeter and friend of SolaRoy, btw. One thing to note here on this post about your light bulbs: If you’re planning to stay where you are for the next year or so, it’s more cost effective to replace your incandescent bulbs now than to wait until they burn out. Seems like a waste, but you’re only throwing away a 50 cent (pence?) bulb and saving a lot more in pounds/euro in monthly electricity costs, especially when you’re heading into the darker winter months. Of course, if you’re only going to be there for a few months, perhaps not, especially if you have many bulbs to replace. :)

]]> By: Mark Golding http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/07/sams-household-energy-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Mark Golding Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:51:53 +0000 http://www.plentyways.com/blog/?p=6#comment-4 Hiya! We heard about you on Twitter! We have a group of websites, The Organic Home, http://bit.ly/1z9Dz and we would love to explore ways of communicating and sharing with you. To share ideas, information and plans would be such an exciting and positive way to go forward for us. We offer link exchange, we publish your blogs on our ‘guest wellness blog’, with full attribution and hotlinks direct to you, and offer full page listings on our ‘guest organic site’ page. These are found on our ‘organic growth’ page… http://bit.ly/OHs53 It would be our honour to be able represent you in some way. There is no change for these services, they are free. Our sites had over 8.5 Million hits last month and to share our growth with you would be our honour and privilege. Here at The Organic Home we say ‘we give to you'... I will look forward to hearing from you. Mark Golding www.theorganichome.co.uk Hiya!

We heard about you on Twitter!

We have a group of websites, The Organic Home, http://bit.ly/1z9Dz and we would love to explore ways of communicating and sharing with you.

To share ideas, information and plans would be such an exciting and positive way to go forward for us. We offer link exchange, we publish your blogs on our ‘guest wellness blog’, with full attribution and hotlinks direct to you, and offer full page listings on our ‘guest organic site’ page. These are found on our ‘organic growth’ page… http://bit.ly/OHs53

It would be our honour to be able represent you in some way.

There is no change for these services, they are free. Our sites had over 8.5 Million hits last month and to share our growth with you would be our honour and privilege.

Here at The Organic Home we say ‘we give to you’…

I will look forward to hearing from you.

Mark Golding
http://www.theorganichome.co.uk

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