Re: [Phys-l] Nuclear Reactors (was: Global Temperatures)

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Even tho I follow Gate Keeper, instead of preceding, I can't keep  
many unused lamps switched off.   At the time the only other major  
users of e. was the refrigerator, and  occasional use of the washer  
and dryer motors.  The bedroom TV is switched off at the power  
strip.  We have Nat. Gas for cooking, ambient heating, and clothes  
drying.  Electronic use was three VHSs and a TV   total idling I  
think was ~ 20 W plus the DSL and radioLAN (30 W)  .  While counting  
only the more often used lamps total about 1 kW.  I averaged about  
three months each before and after to verify the immediate before and  
after months.   I was (pleasantly) surprised.

A different story now as the five DVD recorders + TV  idle* about 40  
W.   Plus frequent use of our first dish washer, but GK replaced the  
refrig. w/ the lowest user in its size.  I forgot GK's kinescope  
computer; often on, but "sleeping".

So I gestimate the total power use reduction was only about 20%.  Lat  
month total e. was ~ 1550 kWh, of which ~ 500 was e.   so if I were  
to reduce it by 1/2 the % decrease wiuld be only ~16%.  that's the  
cold winter.  Last Summer gas use (July) was ~ five therms or ~ 147  
kWh.   We need to insulate!




* Even tho set with "slo" on.

bc  should check to see if it was in the spring so added daylight was  
a confusion.

p.s. In checking PowerBook use I found w/ Batt. charged ~ one W  
consumption when sleeping!   The W meter is a d'Arsonval w/ 5 W tics  
(FS = 400 W) and mirror anti-parallax,   and in Salinas 25C is a rare  
heat wave.

On 2009, Apr 07, , at 07:55, David T. Marx wrote:

> I am greatly surprised that half (or something like that) of your  
> electric
> bill is from lighting.  For most people, most of their energy costs  
> are
> eaten up by heating/cooling, refrigerators/freezers, always-on
> electronics, and computing/entertainment systems.  Lighting is  
> usually a
> small part of energy costs.
>
>
>
> > As I've posted, I reduced my electric bill to 1/2 of ...  by
> > replacing ALL the indoor incandescent w/ CFLs.  Now COSTCO sells LEDs
> > for ~ $11.  45 W equivalent incandescent is 5 W.   Claimed life is 30
> > k h.
> >
> > bc waiting to see if Calif. Gov. will subsidize, as did CFLs.

cut