Consuming ALL!!!

This post will be different from the rest. Below this wave of writing, there is a bar graph of how much electricity is consumed in the U.S. at the end of 2001. I know that it is outdated, but it has good information. This graph was retrieved from Energy Information Administrative. As you can see in the graph, kitchen appliances were the most consumed. It reached a 26.7% share of total, the share of total electricity consumed in the U. S. As for other equipment, only 2.5% was consumed. Around in the middle were water heating, lighting, and space heating. They were, 9.1%, 8.8%, and 10.1% that were consumed. About 16.0% were consumed for air conditioning. 7.7% were consumed for other end uses, not specifically listed. Then the rest was from 7.2% on home electronics, 6.7% on laundry appliances, and 5.0% on HVAC appliances, furnace fan, ceiling fan, etc.

I guess this was true back in 2001. Now, I think that the percentage for home electronics will rise due to new technology that was invented at the end if 2001 up until 2010.

Annotated Bibliography - Wind Generator

Knowing that wind is part of a natural energy is amazing. This article is about the current wind resources that we have from the year, 2007 up until 2009. This article focuses on Ohio's wind turbines, an engine that extracts energy from a fluid or air flow. Wind is a renewable resource that doesn't pollute the area within. Good things about having wind turbines is that it requires a lot of workers and good for the business. Some issues that the wind turbines have is its variability, need constant wind to generate for electricity. Wind turbines causes damages on houses if it is too near. I personally think that wind turbines are good if they are to be placed where there is a lot wind.

The Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel. (2007). Power from renewable resources - wind power. Retrieved April 6, 2010, from http://www.pickocc.org/publications/renewable_energy/Wind_Power.pdf

Linking to A Friend

Hello, todays post is short because I am linking to a friend's energy blog. This person has many unique ideas and energy information on her blog. Even though she has many things written down on her blog, she has one post that was very interesting. It was about getting energy from waterfalls. I've heard something about that recently and it gets very interesting. If you'd like, check out her blog HERE! This person's energy blog is also very interesting, I liked how she has slideshows of waterfall to the right of her blog.

Annotated Bibliography - Solar Panel Homes

Warner, J. (2009, April 12). Are Solar Power Homes in Your Future?. Retrieved April 6, 2010, from http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-?Solar-?Power-?Homes-?in-?Your-?Future?&id=2212942

John Warner wrote this article about the usage of solar panel houses for the future. Nowadays, people are starting to buy homes that are eco-friendly and good for the environment. Solar panel houses are used so less energy would not be wasted. With the use of solar panel homes, it is guaranteed that people can save thousands of dollars yearly. Next, Warner writes in the article about how to assemble and establish working conditions about the solar panel homes. I personally think that owning a solar panel home is brilliant, however, what if the people, who live in the north of Alaska, have panel homes but don't have sunlight during the winter. It can be a big problem.

Safe Water?

By looking at the picture, what do you think about it? How do you feel if you were to drink this water? What if this is the only water left on earth for you to drink, would you drink it? For me, I’m not so sure. All human species, including animals needs water. Human species needs clean water though. Nearly one million people lack access to safe water (Water Facts, 2008). Every fifteen seconds, children die from water disease related. Women also can only find little water that is often polluted. About 43% of people die from water-related diarrhea. This Link Here is a website about helping others in need of clean water. This was co-founded by Gary White and Matt Damon. Their vision is: “The day when everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water.”

Water Facts. (2008). Retrieved April 1, 2010, from http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/

BP Energy Caculator

In this post, I calculated how much energy my family and I consume a year. The website for this is HERE. I never thought that we can consume so much energy from just one family. Imagine the whole country as one. That would be a lot of energy that we are wasting. My energy that is consumed by my family is about 41640 kWh/yr. Kilowatt-hour is a unit to measure how much energy is used over time. Try this out to see how much you and your family consume energy. Have fun!!

Henry David Thoreau

In Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” he talks about going out to the woods living by himself and comparing his life with the other people’s life. In his essay, Thoreau writes, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” Before that, Thoreau was saying in his essay that the people are being too complicated with their lives. They multitask with everything that they have. It is not necessary to do too many things a time. That’s why Thoreau wrote, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.” Try to be simple with your life, Thoreau would say. Thoreau also wrote to just get loose. Stop whatever you [the people] are doing and just close your eyes. Try not to think of anything, like you are floating on a piece of cloud and your miseries going away. Try to live comfortably without worries of making breakfast, lunch, dinner. Try to become one with nature itself.

In Thoreau’s essay mentioned above, it can also relate to energy; that meaning, to use energy in an appropriate way. To not waste energy would not only help us out, it can help the economy also. I think that when Thoreau was writing his essay, he means not only just you, the people, but anything that is a natural resource to everyone’s needs. Instead of wasting energy, you can recycle them.

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