Let's start with the well-known fact that energy is the basis of life on earth. Energy has always played a crucial role in human life, because every action is related to energy expenditure. Every person, every family, any community cannot do without energy consumption. Man has long been looking for new ways to convert energy for his needs, and the technical progress he has made over the last two centuries has changed his life beyond recognition.
Having traveled such a historic path and achieved such results,why you need to save energy? It may not be entirely clear to the average person. There is an opinion in our minds - if there are funds and energy consumption is paid, then why save?
The energy crisis of the 1970s in oil-exporting countries has reduced oil production. The realities of the energy crisis: cold houses, paralysis of some industry and transport, rising prices, cards for petroleum products. The fuel crisis is stimulating the development and implementation of energy-saving technologies on a large scale. Energy-saving equipment and technologies, in turn, have contributed to the successful solution of environmental problems.
Today, in order to overcome the economic crisis, more capital investments are needed for the extraction of hydrocarbon fuels, which affects the constant growth of fuel and electricity prices. No matter how difficult economic transformations, the implementation of certain energy saving programs on a national scale, it will certainly affect the individual. And in order to be ready to protect ourselves and create comfortable living conditions in our home, we must deal with energy savings.
Motivating factors that motivate us to switch to energy saving:
- reducing the impact on the environment;
- increasing the comfort of the home;
- saving money;
- the amount of energy resources left for children;
- search and development of alternative energy sources.
Environmental pollution.
We save energy, reduce the impact on the environment.
The possibilities for transformation and use of energy have transformed and improved the human condition beyond recognition. But with new opportunities we also have new problems. Over the last 100 years, humanity has increased its energy consumption by several thousand times and a significant portion of the fossil fuels accumulated in the earth over millions of years have been consumed.
As energy consumption increases, the environment is irreversibly polluted and the impact of the "greenhouse effect" increases, causing irreversible effects on the earth. This is evidenced by the increased frequency of floods, storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts. In the 18th century, carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere doubled.
If we realize that global warming is a reality, then we need to change our attitude towards the problem of primary energy consumption and therefore commit to real energy savings and maximum use of alternative energy sources, which means that it is necessaryto save energy. . .
Global warming is directly related to the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the fastest and cheapest way to reduce it is to improve energy efficiency in the use of energy. You don't have to be an expert to understand that most of the potential for energy savings lies in our homes, residential buildings and structures.
Saving energy at home.
To create a comfort and a healthy indoor microclimate, we fill the fleet of household appliances. It is already estimated that up to 30% of energy per capita is consumed in the household. Almost every family has a refrigerator, TV, washing machine. Computers, dishwashers, food processors, electric kettles and other appliances are appearing more and more often in our apartments.
Therefore, affordable ways to save energy in everyday life have been developed. This, the use of new thermal insulation materials for insulation of walls, windows, doors, allows you to increase the temperature in the room by 2 - 3 degrees. With, without additional heat loss. Installing automation and control systems in hot and cold water supply and heating systems can reduce costs by up to 30%. Replacing incandescent lamps with fluorescent ones and installing household appliances of this class (A, A +, A ++) reduces energy consumption by 20% - 25%. To increase the comfort of your home, you need to save energy.
We save energy, we save money.
Each family forms its own budget, its own revenue and expenditure side. Utility payments play an important role in the expenditure part of the family budget. The constant rise in energy tariffs and utility bills is causing anxiety and worry in every family. Of particular concern is this in low-income families.
Depending on the family's income, today the payment for consumed energy varies from 15% to 45%. Forecasts are not encouraging, gas and electricity prices will continue to rise. The cost of heat and electricity in our homes can be halved. Usually, the effort and money spent on saving energy in a household not only improves comfort and healthier indoor conditions, but also pays off quickly and benefits the family budget.
So, taking into account the prices for refrigerators and most other household appliances on the market, it turns out that buying the most energy-efficient appliances does not require additional costs.
To save money, you needto save energy. . .
We save energy, leave more energy resources for children.
As you live your life, try to leave more to your offspring than you have received. This statement can be entirely attributed to hydrocarbons: oil, gas, coal. Consumption of these primary energy sources, whose stocks are not replenished, has been growing very rapidly over the last two centuries and there is a risk of leaving less to our children than we have. There is only one way to reduce hydrocarbon consumption - energy saving and alternative energy.
Modern technologies, electronic systems for measuring and monitoring energy consumption, allow you to optimize costs and move to the formation of a "smart home". The concept of "smart home" is built-in information systems that can be installed in the house and withtheir assistance in the management of household electrical appliances. The control system itself selects the appropriate time in time for energy consumption. All you have to do is adjust the control panel to let the machines and equipment work. Then the control system will include it in the most favorable period, when the payment for electricity is lower (here we are talking about the difference in the price of electricity at a two-tariff tariff).
Houses under construction can use renewable energy: from a wind farm, solar panels and more. The European Parliament has adopted a resolution according to which all new buildings, starting in 2019, must have zero energy balance. This means that all buildings under construction will produce as much energy as they consume from renewable sources. The time is not far off when the same resolutions will be adopted throughout the post-Soviet space.
By putting energy saving measures into practice, including in our daily lives, we strive to conserve our resources, thus saving them for our children.
We save energy, we use alternative energy sources.
And yet, why do you need to save energy - to gain time to search for and develop new energy sources - renewable, environmentally friendly and safe (wind, sun, biogas, biomass, ground heat, etc. ). Alternative energy sources are inexhaustible. The purpose of the search for alternative energy sources is the need to obtain them from renewable or virtually inexhaustible natural resources and phenomena. That is, if such a stage in the development of humanity occurs when all exhaustible sources - oil, gas, coal, disappear, it will be able to use these sources, if it stores at least the necessary technology.
So it is necessaryto save energy.Saving energy is not only saving money and creating the necessary comfort, but also caring for children and our planet. Each of us is part of the planet and any action or inaction can affect the course of events.