How to avoid waste of energy?Discuss.

[Humanity]

Energy conservation through various means.

[aBIGsheep]

Expel all commodities of life and backpack alongside the highways.

Live a nomadic existence.

[wilbur lim]

With the fast growth of civilazation there's also an ever mounting need for energy.Energy may be in the form of fuels or electricity.Thus,do thou mean by this?

[Humanity]

With the fast growth of civilazation there's also an ever mounting need for energy.Energy may be in the form of fuels or electricity.Thus,do thou mean by this?
Precisely,I mean that.

[papayahed]

You'll get my air conditioner when you pry it from my cold dead hand.

[wilbur lim]

Ok,so let me define and elaborate.As you know,fuels are lacking currently as it is used for electricity.Electricity is used for electrical appliances,obviously.You should already know that when electrical appliances are not in used,you should switch off.

[Humanity]

You'll get my air conditioner when you pry it from my cold dead hand.
Sorry,can you elaborate it?

[wilbur lim]

Energy also can be used for transport,thus,let us not buy our own cars,we would rather take a bus.

[Dori]

You can't avoid wasting energy.

You might be interested in this:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/01/Human.power/index.html

[Humanity]

Many thanks.

[Lily Adams]

Wear a ziggurat hat.

Dew it.



On a serious note, just be cautious and use common sense?

[Dori]

Another thing: don't sleep with a blanket and the fan on!

Turn the fan off and get rid of the blanket. Problem solved.

[jgweed]

Everyone can, if they begin to think about conservation of energy, reduce its consumption. Turning off computers not being used for 30 minutes or more, or lights in an empty room; rationalising automobile use by combining trips sequentially; re-using paper towels (or by using washable cloth instead) and plastic bags; recycling. It is a matter of creating, for many, a new perspective about one's actions and turning them into routine habits.

[Virgil]

You'll get my air conditioner when you pry it from my cold dead hand.

I love that attitude. :D

I say why conserve? Drill, drill, drill!!! There's plenty of oil to go around. :D :D

[Bakiryu]

Return to a simpler lifestyle and only use energy for needful things like hospital, divert the nations' war budget to research into other forms of fuel. Stop the wasteful consumerism.

[blazeofglory]

It is all about attitudes. If people change their attitudes they can do lots of things conserve or save energies. I live in Nepal. It is indeed a beautiful country with resources, and in hydro power we are the second richest country in the world, yet we are running short of enerigies, and not even fifty percent of our people have electricity and clean drinking water. There are two underlying factors that have led to all these problems. First the government is unconcerned and secondly the attitude of the people.

[lugdunum]

The city of Malmo (Sweden) has organized a campaign called "No ridiculous car journeys" in order to reduce car traffic and in that framework organized the contest of the "shortest and most ridiculous commute"

The winner is a man whose wife says that "He drives his car every day less than 200 meters between home and his workplace, and also drives another few hundred meters to lunch"....

He won... a bicycle :lol:

[Virgil]

The city of Malmo (Sweden) has organized a campaign called "No ridiculous car journeys" in order to reduce car traffic and in that framework organized the contest of the "shortest and most ridiculous commute"

The winner is a man whose wife says that "He drives his car every day less than 200 meters between home and his workplace, and also drives another few hundred meters to lunch"....

He won... a bicycle :lol:

What's a rediculous car journey? If I want to go for a drive, why shouldn't I? A country drive to no where and back, perhaps rediculous to some, is pleasurable to me. What do they have a dictatorship there? This environmentalist crap is a back handed way toward dictatorship. I'll do with the money I earn what I please.

[Niamh]

What's a rediculous car journey? If I want to go for a drive, why shouldn't I? A country drive to no where and back, perhaps rediculous to some, is pleasurable to me. What do they have a dictatorship there? This environmentalist crap is a back handed way toward dictatorship. I'll do with the money I earn what I please.

A come on Virgil, even you must admt that to drive a car of a journey that would take two minute sto walk is silly. By the time you would have car started and backed out of drive way, you'd be out side the office.

[Virgil]

A come on Virgil, even you must admt that to drive a car of a journey that would take two minute sto walk is silly. By the time you would have car started and backed out of drive way, you'd be out side the office.

Ok, that's silly. But don't you think a person ought to be free to do it anyway and not made to feel guilt like he's a sinner or something.

[lugdunum]

and not made to feel guilt like he's a sinner or something.

Well it's not like he was publicly lynched or thrown tomatoes at.... after all he did get a bike, which is always a nice (I guess) :p

I think the "Ridiculous car journey" here was meant as ridiculously short commute in the sense that, as Niamh said, it would probably take you longer to go by car than by foot/bike etc.

But then yes, of course people are (or at least should be) free to do as they please! ;)

[kilted exile]

I think a definition has to be made regarding what a wasteful use of energy is. It is a politically convenient (& definitely loaded) term meaning nothing in particular as far as I am concerned. Just another of those terms used by the GP pigs, Suziki-ites, people who have seen "an inconvenient truth" a few too many times, and those who think Kyoto is a good thing.

It has only recently become the vogue to conserve energy due to increased petrol prices. If it wasnt for this next to nobody would care, and we certainly wouldnt be hearing about it from politicians as a campaign deciding factor.

We need better awareness of the actual science behind things instead of the bleating from the sheep following the crowd.

[SleepyWitch]

It has only recently become the vogue to conserve energy due to increased petrol prices. If it wasnt for this next to nobody would care, and we certainly wouldnt be hearing about it from politicians as a campaign deciding factor.

that is certainly true for America but in other parts of the world, people have been concerned about conserving energy for 20+ years.

[wilbur lim]

that is certainly true for America but in other parts of the world, people have been concerned about conserving energy for 20+ years.

Precisely,it's true.Don't you ever feel that the Earth's temperature is getting warmer?It's sweltering,I cannot tolerate.The day is the worst of all.This is one of the reason why the majority of people feel uncomfortable when sleeping.Sometimes it will rain,but it's literally rare.

[Virgil]

that is certainly true for America but in other parts of the world, people have been concerned about conserving energy for 20+ years.
Hehe, Kilt grew up in Scotland and lives in Canada. Yes, people should conserve energy to save money. I'm cheap, I don't like to throw money away. Energy has always been more expensive in Europe. Not sure why. But to conserve energy for "environmentalism" is to conserve energy for a pseudo religion.



Precisely,it's true.Don't you ever feel that the Earth's temperature is getting warmer?It's sweltering,I cannot tolerate.The day is the worst of all.This is one of the reason why the majority of people feel uncomfortable when sleeping.Sometimes it will rain,but it's literally rare.

Come on Wilbur, that's silly. Even if global warming is true, the most it has gone up if you believe it is one degree. I think that's imperceptable. It's amazing what the power of suggestion does. Everyone thinks they feel gloabal warming. :lol:

[SleepyWitch]

Hehe, Kilt grew up in Scotland and lives in Canada. Yes, people should conserve energy to save money. I'm cheap, I don't like to throw money away. Energy has always been more expensive in Europe. Not sure why. But to conserve energy for "environmentalism" is to conserve energy for a pseudo religion.

then what about the opposite of environmentalism (consumerism? materialism? oil-wasticism or whatever)? how is for example driving gass-guzzling SUVs or having a TV set in each room just because everyone else does it not a pseudo-religion?

[Virgil]

then what about the opposite of environmentalism (consumerism? materialism? oil-wasticism or whatever)? how is for example driving gass-guzzling SUVs or having a TV set in each room just because everyone else does it not a pseudo-religion?

Because people are doing those things to make themselves happy. There is no pseudo religious impulse toward them. Whether they truely are happy I don't know. But a person goes to work, earns a pay check, he has the right to spend that paycheck as he best sees fit for himself and his family.