Especially when the core is a good, safe 93 million miles away. Helps that it's a fusion reactor instead of a fission one, too, fewer waste products
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One was that we had a whole mess of halogen lights outside in the backyard that were on a timer we hadn't known about and they were on for five hours every night, which added up to quite a lot.
There's an old fridge we'd gotten for free from a friend that actually uses more electricity than both our other fridge and our chest freezer combined. So we've mostly emptied it and unplugged it as we weren't using it that much anyway. We might get another, smaller, more efficient beer fridge for John for the summer, but for now the whole garage is, effectively a fridge (i.e. it's never over 40 degrees in there now).
We swapped all our incandescent lights upstairs for florescent lights, the new bulbs provide pretty much exactly the same light, they just take a little while to warm up, but use a lot less electricity. Also, Longmont power worked with the local retailers, and the power company rebated all the local retailers so that the compact florescent light bulbs were exactly the same cost as the incandescents of the same power. So that was huge. We did everything in one day because of that deal. We have an odd track-lighting scheme in the kitchen that we couldn't replace, but nearly every other room light we were able to replace, easily, and the light quality is such that, if anything, it's now brighter than it was.
That's about it. We did put the downstairs entertainment center all on one power strip so that we could turn the whole complex off with a single flick. We also put the satellite computers on a power strip as well, so that they couldn't get any energy if we wanted the whole system off anyway.
There's an old fridge we'd gotten for free from a friend that actually uses more electricity than both our other fridge and our chest freezer combined. So we've mostly emptied it and unplugged it as we weren't using it that much anyway. We might get another, smaller, more efficient beer fridge for John for the summer, but for now the whole garage is, effectively a fridge (i.e. it's never over 40 degrees in there now).
We swapped all our incandescent lights upstairs for florescent lights, the new bulbs provide pretty much exactly the same light, they just take a little while to warm up, but use a lot less electricity. Also, Longmont power worked with the local retailers, and the power company rebated all the local retailers so that the compact florescent light bulbs were exactly the same cost as the incandescents of the same power. So that was huge. We did everything in one day because of that deal. We have an odd track-lighting scheme in the kitchen that we couldn't replace, but nearly every other room light we were able to replace, easily, and the light quality is such that, if anything, it's now brighter than it was.
That's about it. We did put the downstairs entertainment center all on one power strip so that we could turn the whole complex off with a single flick. We also put the satellite computers on a power strip as well, so that they couldn't get any energy if we wanted the whole system off anyway.
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