Comments on: It’s Energy Saving Week http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/energy-saving/2007/10/22/its-energy-saving-week/ Raising Green Consciousness since 2002 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:09:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Degree Days.net http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/energy-saving/2007/10/22/its-energy-saving-week/#comment-68338 Degree Days.net Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:45:06 +0000 http://ecostreet.com/blog/energy-saving/2007/10/22/its-energy-saving-week/#comment-68338 Might I just add: it's also a good idea to change the power saving settings on your computer. Its usually a good idea to set them to switch off the monitor after a few minutes, and to go on full standby within 10 or 15 minutes. Once a computer is on standby, with its monitor off, it uses only a tiny fraction of the energy it uses when fully on, and you can re-awake it very quickly. Also, if you're up for some moderately advanced data analysis, you can compare your past heating energy consumption with degree days, to see if your efficiency is improving. http://www.degreedays.net/ has more. Might I just add: it’s also a good idea to change the power saving settings on your computer. Its usually a good idea to set them to switch off the monitor after a few minutes, and to go on full standby within 10 or 15 minutes. Once a computer is on standby, with its monitor off, it uses only a tiny fraction of the energy it uses when fully on, and you can re-awake it very quickly.

Also, if you’re up for some moderately advanced data analysis, you can compare your past heating energy consumption with degree days, to see if your efficiency is improving. http://www.degreedays.net/ has more.

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