Pick energy efficient appliances. The third largest energy use in dwelling units is for appliances. Refrigerators consume the most energy because they run 24 hours/day, every day of the year, maintaining a 30 degree temperature difference (65° – 35°) between the air in the kitchen and the air inside the refrigerator, and perhaps twice that between the air in the kitchen and that in the freezer (65° – 0°). The best refrigerators can be 25-30% more energy efficient than the worst in any particular size category.
September 6, 2009
Seattle Energy Code
September 5, 2009
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SEATTLE – Seattle is plugged into part of $100 million in federal stimulus money to promote electric cars and hundreds of city residents will soon get their own charging stations.
I think we are moving in the right direction getting ourselves off of crude will be a tough battle but a battle which I will fight for. One of the problems is that 70% of Americas electricity comes from coal while the balance is made up of hydro and nuclear energy. In closing it may seem like a catch 22 at first but with a little more time electric cars will be the future.
