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Misuse of Electricity

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Energy Saving Tips to Use Throughout the Year * Be sure to turn off lights when you leave a room. * Turn off machines when you leave a room (examples include TV’s, computers, radios, stereos, video games, VCR’s, and DVD players). * When you go away on a trip, be sure to unplug these same machines because they have stand-by functions that consume electricity even when they are turned off. * Fill your dishwasher efficiently and limit the number of times you run it. * Don’t put furniture and other things in front of heating and air conditioning vents. * Keep doors and windows closed when heat or air conditioning is on. * Put in a programmable thermostat which will keep your house at the right temperature day and …show more content…

Summer Tips * Keep your blinds, drapes or shades closed during the day. * Use ceiling fans or windows fans instead of air conditioning. Ceiling and window fans use much less electricity. * Only use air conditioning when it is really hot outside. * Turn off your air conditioning if you will be gone from home for a long time. * Clean or replace your air conditioning filters every month (in both central and window air conditioners). * Turn the thermostat up a few degrees when you have the air conditioning on. 74 degrees is very comfortable and you are saving up to 5% on your electric bills for each degree of temperature change. * Plant trees in your yard because they help shade your house in the summer and keep your house cooler. * If you can, shade your air conditioning unit. If your unit is in the bright sun, it will use up to 5% more energy than if it was in the shade * Introduction: * Now-a-days electricity has become quite-common in the world. Everybody sees the wonderful work of electricity. The lights on the streets are lit by the electric current. Electric fans work in the court, high court and office-rooms. Trains and trams are run by the electric power. So, electricity is no longer a strange thing. * Discovery of electricity: * About six hundred years back the people of Asia Minor and Greece had a very crude idea of electricity. Next, the American Scientist Banjamin Franklin proved with the help of a

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