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 a person's life, because any of his actions are associated with the expenditure of energy. Any person, any family, any community cannot do without energy consumption. For some time man has been looking for new ways of converting energy to his needs and the technical progress he has made over the past two centuries has transformed his life beyond recognition.
Having traveled such a historic path and achieved such results,because you need to save energy? It may not be entirely clear to an ordinary person. In our mind there is an opinion: if there are funds and the energy consumption is paid, then why save?
The energy crisis of the 1970s in oil-exporting countries reduced the volume of oil production. The realities of the energy crisis: cold rooms, paralysis of part of industry and transport, price increases, cards for petroleum products. The fuel crisis has spurred the development and implementation of large-scale energy-saving technologies. Energy-saving equipment and technologies, in turn, have contributed to the successful solution of environmental problems.
Today, to overcome the economic crisis, greater capital investments are required for the extraction of hydrocarbon fuels, which affects the constant growth of fuel and electricity prices. No matter how difficult the economic transformations are, the implementation of some energy saving programs on a national scale, this will surely affect a single person. And in order to be ready to protect ourselves and create comfortable conditions for living in our home, we must deal with energy savings.
Motivating factors that motivate us to move towards energy saving:
- reduce the impact on the environment;
- increase living comfort;
- Save Money;
- the amount of energy resources that remain for the children;
- research and development of alternative energy sources.
Environmental pollution.
We save energy, we reduce the impact on the environment.
The possibilities of transforming and using energy have transformed and improved the human condition beyond recognition. However, with new opportunities, we also have new problems. Over the past 100 years, humanity has increased its energy consumption by several thousand times, and a significant portion of the fossil fuel accumulated on the earth over millions of years has been consumed.
Simultaneously with the increase in energy consumption, the environment is irreversibly polluted and the influence of the "greenhouse effect" increases, causing irreversible consequences on the earth. This is evidenced by the increased frequency of floods, storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts. Compared to the 18th century, carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere have doubled.
If we recognize that global warming is a reality, then we must change our attitude towards the problem of the consumption of primary energy resources, and therefore commit ourselves to real energy saving and the 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, the quickest and cheapest way to reduce it is to improve energy efficiency in the use of energy. You don't need to be an expert to understand that most of the energy saving potential lies in our homes, residential buildings and structures.
Saving energy at home.
To create comfort and a healthy indoor microclimate, we supply the fleet of appliances. It is already estimated that up to 30% of the energy per capita is spent in the home. Almost every family has a refrigerator, TV, washing machine. Computers, dishwashers, food processors, electric kettles and other household appliances are increasingly appearing in our apartments.
Therefore, convenient ways to save energy in everyday life have been developed. This, the use of new thermal insulating materials for the insulation of walls, windows, doors, allows to increase the temperature in the room by 2 - 3 degrees. C, without further waste of heat. Installing automation and control systems in hot and cold water supply and heating systems can reduce costs by up to 30%. The replacement of incandescent lamps with fluorescent ones and the installation of class appliances (A, A +, A ++), reduces energy consumption by 20% - 25%. To increase comfort in the home, it is necessary to save energy.
We save energy, we save money.
Each family forms its own budget, its own income and expenses. Utility payments play an important role in the spending part of the household budget. The steady rise in energy tariffs and utility bills is causing alarm and concern in every household. Particular concern over this occurs in low-income families.
Depending on the family's income, the payment of energy consumed today varies from 15% to 45%. The forecasts are not encouraging, gas and electricity prices will continue to rise. The costs of heating and electricity in our homes can be halved. Typically, the effort and money spent on energy savings in a family not only improve comfort and healthier indoor conditions, but quickly pay for themselves and benefit the family budget.
So, taking into account the prices of refrigerators and most other appliances on the market, it turns out that the purchase of the most energy efficient appliances does not require additional costs.
To save money, it is necessaryto save energy. . .
We save energy, we leave more energy resources to children.
As you live your life, try to leave your descendants more than you have. This statement can be fully attributed to hydrocarbons - oil, gas, coal. The consumption of these primary energy sources, whose reserves are not replenished, has grown very rapidly over the past two centuries and there is a risk of leaving our children less than we have achieved. There is only one way to reduce the consumption of hydrocarbons: energy saving and alternative energies.
Modern technologies, electronic systems for measuring and monitoring energy consumption, make it possible to optimize costs and move to the formation of a "smart home". The concept of "smart home" is integrated information systems that can be installed in the home and with their help to control household appliances. The control system itself chooses a suitable moment in time for energy consumption. It is sufficient to set up the control panel to leave machinery and equipment running. Then the control system will turn it on in the most favorable period, when the payment for electricity is lower (here it is about the difference in the price of electricity at a two-tariff tariff).
Homes under construction can use renewable energy: from a wind turbine, solar panels, etc. The European Parliament has adopted a resolution according to which all new buildings, starting from 2019, must have a zero energy balance. This means that all buildings under construction will produce as much energy from renewable sources as they consume. The time is not far off when the same resolutions will be adopted throughout the post-Soviet space.
By implementing measures to save energy, even in everyday life, we strive to conserve our resources, thus preserving them for our children.
We save energy, we use alternative energy sources.
And again, because it is necessary to save energy - to save time for the research and development of new energy sources - renewable, environmentally friendly and safe (wind, sun, biogas, biomass, earth heat, etc. ). Alternative energy sources are inexhaustible. The aim of the search for alternative energy sources is the need to obtain them from renewable or practically inexhaustible natural resources and phenomena. That is, if such a stage in the development of humanity comes when all exhaustible sources - oil, gas, coal, disappear, then he will be able to use these sources if he stocks at least the necessary technologies.
So it is necessaryto save energy.Saving energy does not only mean saving money and creating the necessary comfort, but also taking care of children and our planet. Each of us is a part of the planet and any action or inaction can affect the development of events.