Let’s start with the well -known fact that energy is the basis of life on earth. Energy always plays an important role in a person’s life, as every action is associated with energy production. Any person, family, any community cannot do without the use of energy. For so long, man has been looking for new ways to convert energy for his needs and the technical advances he has made over the past two centuries have changed his life to the unknown.
Having taken a historic path and achieved such a result,why you need to save energy? It may not be entirely clear to the average person. In our minds there is an opinion - if there are funds and energy consumption is paid for, then why save?
The energy crisis in the 70s of last century in oil-exporting countries reduced the volume of oil production. The reality of the energy crisis: cold homes, partial paralysis of industry and transport, rising prices, cards for petroleum products. The fuel crisis has driven the development and implementation of energy-saving technologies on a large scale. Energy -saving equipment and technologies, in turn, contribute to successful environmental problem solving.
Today, to overcome the economic crisis, more capital investment is needed for hydrocarbon fuel consumption, which affects the continued growth of fuel and electricity prices. No matter how difficult the economic transformation, the implementation of certain energy saving programs on a national scale, this will definitely affect an individual. And to be ready to protect ourselves and create comfortable conditions for living in our homes, we must deal with energy savings.
The driving factors that drive us to move towards energy saving:
- reduce the impact on the environment;
- improve housing comfort;
- save money;
- the amount of energy resources left for children;
- search for and development of alternative sources of energy.
Environmental pollution.
We save energy, reduce the impact on the environment.
The possibility of transforming and using energy has transformed and improved the unfathomable human condition. However, with new opportunities, we also face new problems. Over the last 100 years, mankind has increased its energy consumption by several thousand times, and most of the fossil fuels accumulated on earth over millions of years have been depleted.
Simultaneously with the increase in energy consumption, the polluted environment is irreversible and the influence of the "greenhouse effect" increases, resulting in irreversible consequences on earth. This is evidenced by the increasing frequency of floods, storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts. Compared to the 18th century, carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere doubled.
If we realize that global warming is a reality, then we should change our attitude towards the problem of the use of primary energy sources, and therefore involve real energy savings and maximum use of alternative energy sources, which means that it is necessaryto save energy. . .
Global warming is directly related to the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the fastest and cheapest way to reduce it is by increasing energy efficiency in energy consumption. You don’t have to be an expert to understand that most of the energy saving potential lies in our homes, residential buildings and structures.
Save energy at home.
To create comfort and a healthy indoor microclimate, we added a garden of household appliances. It has been estimated that up to 30% of energy per capita is spent on households. Almost every family has a refrigerator, TV, washing machine. More and more often computers, dishwashers, food processors, electric kettles and other appliances appear in our apartments.
Therefore, affordable methods to save energy in daily life have been developed. This, the use of new thermal insulation materials for insulation of walls, windows, doors, allows you to increase the temperature in the room by 2 - 3 degrees. C, without additional heat. The installation of automation and control systems in hot and cold water supply and heating systems can reduce costs by up to 30%. Replacing incandescent lamps with fluorescent lamps and installing class household electrical appliances (A, A +, A ++), reduces power consumption by 20% - 25%. To increase the comfort in your home, you need to save energy.
We save energy, we save money.
Each family forms its own budget, income and expenses. Utility payments play an important role in family budget spending. The constant rise in energy tariffs and utility bills is causing anxiety and worry in every family. Particular concern about this occurs in low -income families.
Depending on family income, today payments for energy consumption range from 15% to 45%. The forecast is not encouraging, gas and electricity prices will continue to rise. The cost of heat and electricity in our homes can be halved. Typically, the effort and money spent on energy savings in the household not only improves the comfort and interior conditions of a healthier home, but also quickly pays for itself and benefits the family budget.
So, taking into account the price of refrigerators and most other household appliances on the market, it turns out that buying the most energy efficient appliances does not require additional costs.
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We save energy, we leave more energy resources for children.
As you go about your life, try to leave more to your descendants than you can. This statement can be attributed entirely to hydrocarbons: oil, gas, coal. The use of this primary source of energy, whose reserves are not replenished, has grown exponentially over the past two centuries and there is a risk of leaving less to our children than we can. There is only one way to reduce hydrocarbon use - energy saving and alternative energy.
Modern technology, electronic systems for measuring and monitoring energy consumption, allows you to optimize costs and move to the formation of "smart homes". The concept of "smart home" is a built -in information system that can be installed in the home and with their help to control household electrical appliances. The control system itself selects the appropriate time for energy consumption. Enough to install the control panel so that the machine and equipment do not work. Then the control system will turn it on in the best period, when the payment for electricity is lower (here we are talking about the difference in the price of electricity with a double tariff).
Homes that are under construction can use renewable energy: from wind power plants, solar panels, etc. The European Parliament adopted a resolution stating that all new buildings, starting in 2019, must have zero energy balance. This means that all buildings under construction will produce from renewable sources as much energy as they consume. The time is soon to come when the same resolution will be adopted throughout the post-Soviet space.
By implementing in practice measures to save energy, including in daily life, we strive to conserve our resources, and thus preserve them for our children.
We save energy, using alternative energy sources.
Still, why should you save energy - to get time to find and develop new energy sources - renewable, environmentally friendly and safe (wind, sun, biogas, biomass, geothermal, etc. ). Alternative energy sources are inexhaustible. The purpose of the search for alternative energy sources is the need to obtain them from natural sources and natural phenomena that are renewable or practical. That is, if the stage of human development comes when all resources are depleted-oil, gas, coal, are gone, then it will be able to use these resources if it keeps at least the necessary technology.
So it is necessaryto save energy.Saving energy not only saves money and creates much-needed comfort, but also takes care of our children and the planet. Each of us is a part of the planet and improper actions or actions can affect the course of events.