Let’s start with a well-known fact that energy is the basis of life on earth. Energy has always played a crucial role in human life because any of its actions are related to energy use. Anyone, any family, community cannot do without energy consumption. Man has long been looking for new ways to transform energy into needs, and technological advances over the past two centuries have made his life unrecognizable.
Having made such a historic journey and achieved such results,why you need to save energy? It may not be entirely clear to an ordinary person. There is an opinion in our minds - if there are resources and they pay for energy consumption, then why save?
The energy crisis of the 1970s reduced oil production in oil-exporting countries. The reality of the energy crisis: greenhouses, paralysis of part of industry and transport, rising prices, cards for petroleum products. The fuel crisis has led to the development and implementation of energy-saving technologies on a large scale. And energy-saving equipment and technologies have contributed to the successful solution of environmental problems.
Today, in order to overcome the economic crisis, additional capital investments are needed to extract hydrocarbon fuels, which will affect the steady rise in fuel and electricity prices. No matter how difficult economic transformations are, the implementation of certain energy saving programs at the national level will certainly affect the individual. And in order to be ready to protect ourselves and create comfortable conditions for living in our home, we need to struggle with energy conservation.
Motivating factors that motivate us to save energy:
- reducing the impact on the environment;
- increasing housing comfort;
- to save money;
- the amount of energy resources remaining for children;
- search for and development of alternative energy sources.
Pollution.
We save energy and reduce the impact on the environment.
The possibilities of transforming and using energy have transformed and improved the human condition to the unrecognizable. However, we also have new problems with new opportunities. In the last 100 years, humanity has increased its energy consumption thousands of times, and a significant portion of the fossil fuels that have accumulated on earth over millions of years have been consumed.
As energy consumption increases, the environment becomes irreversibly polluted and the impact of the "greenhouse effect" increases, with irreversible consequences on earth. This is evidenced by the increased frequency of floods, storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts. Compared to the 18th century, atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions have doubled.
Recognizing that global warming is a reality, we need to change our approach to the problem of consuming primary energy sources and therefore pursue real energy savings and the maximum use of alternative energy sources, which means that it is necessaryenergy saving. . .
Global warming is directly linked to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and the fastest and cheapest way to reduce it is to improve energy efficiency in energy use. You don’t have to be an expert to understand that much of the potential for energy savings lies in our homes, residential buildings, and structures.
Energy saving at home.
We create a fleet of household appliances to create comfort and a healthy indoor microclimate. It is estimated that up to 30% of per capita energy is spent in the household. Almost every family has a refrigerator, TV, washing machine. Computers, dishwashers, food processors, electric kettles and other appliances are increasingly appearing in our apartments.
Therefore, affordable methods have been developed in everyday life. This, the use of new thermal insulation materials to insulate walls, windows, doors allows to increase the room temperature by 2-3 degrees. C, without further heat waste. Integrating automation and control systems into hot and cold water supply and heating systems can reduce costs by up to 30%. By replacing incandescent bulbs with fluorescents and installing class A (A, A +, A ++) household electrical appliances, energy consumption is reduced by 20-25%. You need to save energy to increase the comfort of your home.
We save energy, money.
Each family determines its own budget, income and expenditure side. Utility payments play an important role on the expenditure side of the family budget. The steady rise in energy tariffs and utility bills is a cause for concern for all families. This is particularly worrying in low-income families.
Depending on the family’s income, today the pay for the energy consumed ranges from 15% to 45%. Forecasts are not encouraging, gas and electricity prices will continue to rise. The heat and electricity costs of our home can be halved. In a household, the effort and money spent on energy savings generally not only improves comfort and healthier indoor conditions, but pays for itself quickly and benefits from the family budget.
So, considering the price of refrigerators and most other home appliances on the market, it turns out that buying the most energy efficient appliances does not require any additional costs.
You can save moneyenergy saving. . .
We save energy, leaving more energy sources for children.
As you live your life, try to leave more for your offspring than you received. This statement is entirely attributable to hydrocarbons: oil, gas, coal. Consumption of these primary energy sources, whose reserves are not being replenished, has grown very rapidly over the past two centuries, and there is a danger that we will leave less for our children than we have received. There is only one way to reduce hydrocarbon consumption - energy saving and alternative energy.
Modern technologies, electronic systems for measuring and monitoring energy consumption make it possible to optimize costs and design a "smart home". The concept of "smart home" is the built-in information systems that can be installed in the house to control household electrical appliances. The control system itself selects the appropriate time for energy consumption. It is enough to set up the center so that the machines and equipment can work. Then the control system turns on at the most favorable period when the electricity payment is lower (here we are talking about the difference in the price of electricity with two tariffs).
Houses under construction can use renewable energy: from wind turbines, solar panels, etc. The European Parliament has adopted a resolution that from 2019 all new buildings must have a zero balance. This means that every building under construction will produce as much energy from renewable sources as it consumes. It is not far off the clock when the same resolutions will be adopted throughout the post-Soviet space.
By putting energy savings into practice, even in everyday life, we aim to conserve our resources, thereby preserving them for our children.
We save energy, we use alternative energy sources.
And yet, why do you have to save energy - to gain time - to find and develop new - renewable, environmentally friendly and safe (wind, solar, biogas, biomass, geothermal, etc. ) energy sources. Alternative energy sources are inexhaustible. The aim of the search for alternative energy sources is to obtain them from renewable or practically inexhaustible natural resources and phenomena. That is, if such a phase of human development occurs when all depleted sources - oil, gas, coal - disappear, they will be able to use these resources if they at least accumulate the necessary technologies.
So it is necessaryenergy saving.Saving energy not only saves money and creates the necessary comfort, but also takes care of children and our planet. We are all part of the planet, and any action or inaction can affect the course of events.