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Green Living Quick Car Tips
Cars are one of the biggest sources of pollution and greenhouse gases in our lives. However, most of us still need our cars to get around. If you can't give up your car yet, you may be wondering what the best way to reduce its impact is. The answer is making sure you're getting the best fuel efficiency. You'll be improving your impact on the planet, as well as saving a little money, if you learn to drive your car so that you get the best mileage. Here's how. Pay attention to your speed, for one. It's easy to feel like you're in a hurry to get everywhere and be tempted to drive at high speeds. However, you should avoid driving over fifty-five miles per hour if you want better mileage. This means you're less likely to end up in an accident, and you'll get a better fuel efficiency. Just going up to sixty-five means you're burning ten percent more fuel, and at seventy miles an hour you've lost seventy-five percent of fuel economy, with numbers getting worse from there. As engines heat up at higher speeds, they burn gas more quickly, and they have to deal with greater air and road ...- Bookmark :
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Take the Bus or Train - It Does Make a Difference
With fuel prices unpredictable and concerns about consumption rising, many people are wondering if they should make changes to their lives. The answer is yes, and there are simply ways to make things better. For instance, choosing to get to work without taking the car can make a big difference in fuel consumption, pollution, CO2 emissions and traffic congestion. Did you know that a twenty mile daily trip to work produces nearly a thousand pounds of carbon dioxide - even if your car is brand new? That's like a dozen twenty pound bags of charcoal. To neutralize that carbon contribution, you'd need to plant around a hundred and fifty sugar maples, and that doesn't count the rest of your driving. Think about how many trees you'd need to neutralize the carbon emissions caused by the travel of everyone in your family, or your whole neighborhood! This kind of impact is referred to as the ecological footprint. It's how much damage you do and how many resources you use up during the course of a year. For most people, it's an enormous amount, and a lot of us are trying to reduce our ecological footprints. However, this can be tricky, since heating and ...- Bookmark :
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Get a Front-Loading Washing Machine
If you're in the market for a new washing machine, the one you get could have a big influence on your environmental impact. That's because front loading machines use much less heat, detergent, and washers than standard types. The significantly more efficient and effective designs have been working at Laundromats for ages, but they're only recently becoming popular for homes. You can find great front loading washers from all the major brands, from Frigidaire to GE to Kenmore, offering efficient cleaning power, electronic features and attractive design. Look for an Energy Star certification to let you know the machine's energy efficiency level. Your appliances will pay for themselves in a relatively short period of time, just through the energy savings. Ordinary top loading washing machines use anywhere up to forty gallons of water per load, versus about twenty five even for top loading Energy Star models. A forty percent water savings translates into a fifty percent energy savings. Front loaders save even more, since the horizontal axis on which their drums rotate saves energy and water. Unlike a top loader, the tub doesn't have to be filled completely to do its job. The spin cycle on a front loader helps you reduce drying ...- Bookmark :
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Don’t hit Print too quickly
The average American uses more than 700 pounds of paper a year in today’s modern office and at home from the numbers of copies of documents which are made needlessly. Too often office workers are quick to make printouts of documents, especially each and every time a small change is made, despite the fact that the change may only be a minor one. Here are a few tips to help you save the amount of paper that you produce on a daily basis in your office or at home. First, make sure that you have completely checked your document to make sure that you have a true final copy. Before you print your document out, run it through your spelling checker program to make sure there are no glaring spelling errors that haven’t been caught. Next, have someone else who hasn’t authored your work check it over to make sure that there are no errors in punctuation or spelling that that the spelling checker didn’t catch. Although most word processing programs are getting better, it is still possible to have some rather embarrassing errors slip through the cracks (for example, it’s possible to have “form” appear where you meant to write ...- Bookmark :
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Secrets behind Wind Turbine Technology
In some places of the world, wind turbine power accounts for ten percent of the total electricity consumed. This is, sadly, a very small fraction of the power generation and consumption coming from coal plants as well as from solar panels. Still, it is progress that we should welcome for the simple reason that taking it one step at a time is better than taking no steps at all in the right direction. To take these small but important steps towards cleaner electricity through wind power, it is important to know about the secrets, open these may be to anyone interested, behind wind turbine technology. Turbines in Relation to the Generation of Electricity Think of your ordinary electric fan - it generates wind by using electricity. Now think of the wind turbine although in a reverse mode - it generates electricity by using wind. The technology behind wind power can be summed up as simply as that statement. But of course, electricity generation is hardly ever that simple. Let's put it this way for the non-techie amongst us. The turbine blades are designed so as to capture the maximum amount of wind, which will cause them to rotate. In turn, the rotation spins the ...- Bookmark :
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