Energy saving..switch off those television sets may be?

And I want to be the first responder here.... Yippey... Let's save and save energy, like our energy of making those pop corn, for sure...

I watch very little TV anyway, but it's a minor energy in any case. What we have done, not just thought about doing, is make our house as energy efficient as possible. We have solar power, roof insulation, heat as much as possible with wood, have low energy light bulbs, and look for good energy ratings on our appliances. Then there's water. We have put in an extra 10,000 litres capacity, giving us 23,000, so we are not using piped water unless there is a long dry spell, and that means a lessening of the energy needed to pipe the water to us (multiply by tens of thousands of households in our region). We use bottled gas for cooking and heating, which isn't a total energy saving but at least is better than using the dirtier and more expensive electricity. Our house is a "Queenslander", built on stumps which allow air to circulate underneath the house and a "breezeway", a passage running east/west, the direction of the prevailing winds, and these make aircon almost unnecessary - I think we used our one-room aircon maybe four times during the heat of summer. Lash

better shut off the internet too

Hello my friend vandana7 Ji, Well, I think waste of any natural resources would be paid back in same coins if not today at any later stage in our life time. My grand-father, if I waste single drop of water while getting his hands washed after meals, he would scold me and at times beat me and always remind me that in future I would suffer, now that future has come, when even do not get water for drinking , it comes in silicon city once in fortnight. We have to leave all jobs and fetch water. Similarly, if I am starving for electricity, I am sure I was wasting at times. May God bless You and have a great time

Hi Vandana How about this - Let us open up 500 more 24x7 channels, provide every household with 5 FREE Tele Sets (one each for everyone in family + one extra so that in case anything goes wrong with one, it can be replaced with immediate effect - the major benefits of this scheme would be complete ZERO household violence of any kind as all will be happily engrossed in watching their own fav channel on their own set). Logic: we use up every bit of energy ASAP - so once all energy is spent, there is nothing more left of anything.... A pollution free world! Bliss and Environment Friendly.

To some people, without TV transmission is akin to be the end of the world. How are they going to spend the long boring hours without the magic box? They would prefer to stop the use of electrical appliances such as Refrigerator, washing machine, air conditioner, fan, toaster, iron, and whatever but the TV. They can even promise not to eat any junk food while watching TV if that is the condition. This is not a small matter. TV is serious business. It will take a long time to get most of us to wean off the TV addiction. TV is king http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxanTld0nRY

Good morning, Ms. Vandy (it is here)! Energy saving is such a part of my life..I am just not sure which makes the largest impact! But I do know, anything that heats is one of the greatest consumptives! Like stoves, furnaces, hot water tanks, etc. If I turn the stove on, or oven (living on an Island, we do not have gas) I cook many meals..and bake many things! In winter I have wood heat, and do most of my cooking on wood stove! Turn off and unplug ALL "vampire" electricals...like T.V., computer, anything that sucks power, even tho' turned off! Low consumptive light bulbs...and NONE left on in rooms not being used! I have 13,500 gallons (54,000 litres) of collected water in storage tanks, located uphill from my domains...so all water is gravity fed, and is collected off roofs. Never run water until it is hot, collect all that cold water and use for watering plants, etc. And last, but NOT least, for the past almost 6 years..my major form of transportation (I live very rurally)has been an Electric Bike) costs 32 cents for 95 kilometres! I have two other domains on my property that I rent, and out total electric bill is about $100.00 per month...very reasonable!

hi Vandana Madam, Power saving is good thing and good practice also.We have to conserve the Power and we have increase the use of Solar power and we have to minimize the Electricity usage. Do not waste Electricity,switch off the lights and fans when you are not using them.Do not depend on Electrical gadgets and use natural resource for air and heat,have a nice day.

Vanda, for me implementing energy saving into my household means i can plan more short vacation in the future. Because i don't need to spend more money into paying the electricity bill. I had cut down the time being spend in front of television. Even i see the lesser time i spend in front of television means, i am spending less on tid-bit and snack as well. Like you say, growing more healthy, too. The more money i am able to save from paying bills the much better, since i got more money for vacation. I like vacation and see new and interesting places. Who knows, maybe i can plan one short vacation to your country and visiting all of you in future.

Well, dear friend, this is a fight that I do almost every day with my mother, "accusing" her to buy too! Too much, sometimes it reduces precisely to be almost forced to eat food that maybe is not even to our liking, but only for the fact that we bought it and then paid. Personally, I buy only what I need on a daily basis. I am not a person who buys food or anything else at the Mall, just because it is on offer, or because it might one day come to me useful. I think many of us should, especially in times like these where the money is not very abundant in our homes, be more thrifty in spending.

Yes, Vandana dear, your idea is great for undisciplined people we generally are. But there are other simpler ways too. Because of unscheduled power cuts and voltage fluctuations, the consumers are forced to have voltage stabilizers for each appliance they feed power to. This wastes, on an average, 25% of electricity really consumed in the appliance. To safeguard against unscheduled power failures, most of the consumers use Batteries and Invertors to feed their loads. This wastes about 50% of electricity used for charging the batteries and then inverting the supply for feeding the loads. And the first and the foremost requirement from all of us is to be self-disciplined which we are not, culturally and habitually. We need to be better human-beings..

You are right Vandy. I watch tv but I don't eat in the living room. I no longer eat mindlessly and have lost over 20 pounds in 3 months.