Let's start with a known fact that energy is the foundation of life on earth. Energy has always played a crucial role in a person's life, as each of his actions is associated with an expenditure of energy. No one, no family, no community can do without energy consumption. Man has long searched for new ways to convert energy for his needs, and the technical advances he has made over the past two centuries have changed his life beyond recognition.
Having walked such a historical path and achieved such results,why do you have to save energy? It may not be entirely clear to a normal person. There is an opinion in our minds - if there is money and energy consumption is paid for, 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 houses, paralysis of part of industry and transport, rising prices, cards for petroleum products. The fuel crisis has spurred the development and implementation of energy-saving technologies on a large scale. Energy-saving devices and technologies in turn contributed to the successful solution of environmental problems.
To overcome the economic crisis, more capital investments are required today in the production of hydrocarbon fuels, which has an impact on the ever increasing prices of fuel and electricity. No matter how difficult the economic transformations are, implementing certain energy saving programs at the national level will surely affect an individual. And in order to be ready to protect ourselves and create comfortable living conditions in our home, we have to deal with energy saving.
Motivating factors that motivate us to save energy:
- Reducing the impact on the environment;
- Increase of living comfort;
- Save money;
- the amount of energy resources left over to children;
- Search and development of alternative energy sources.
Environmental pollution.
We save energy, reduce the impact on the environment.
The possibilities for converting and using energy have changed and improved the human condition beyond recognition. But with new opportunities we also have new problems. In the last 100 years mankind has increased its energy consumption several thousandfold and consumed a considerable part of the fossil fuels that have accumulated on earth over millions of years.
Simultaneously with the increasing energy consumption, the environment is irreversibly polluted and the influence of the "greenhouse effect" increases, which has irreversible consequences for the earth. This is evidenced by the increasing frequency of floods, storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts. In the 20th century, carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere doubled.
When we realize that global warming is a reality, we need to change our attitude towards the problem of consumption of primary energy resources and therefore advocate for real energy savings and 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 them is to improve energy efficiency in energy use. You don't have to be an expert to understand that most of the potential for energy saving resides in our homes, apartment buildings and structures.
Save energy at home.
In order to create comfort and a healthy indoor climate, we are replenishing the home appliance park. It is already estimated that up to 30% of the energy per capita is used in the household. Almost every family has a refrigerator, television, washing machine. Computers, dishwashers, kitchen machines, kettles and other devices are increasingly appearing in our homes.
Therefore, affordable ways to save energy in everyday life have been developed. By using new thermal insulation materials for insulating walls, windows and doors, you can increase the temperature in the room by 2 - 3 degrees. C, without additional waste of heat. Installing automation and control systems in hot and cold water supply and heating systems can reduce costs by up to 30%. Replacing incandescent lamps with fluorescent lamps and installing household electrical appliances of class (A, A +, A ++) reduces electricity consumption by 20% - 25%. To increase the comfort in your home, you need to save energy.
We save energy, we save money.
Each family has its own budget, its income and expenditure side. Pension benefits play an important role on the expenditure side of the family budget. The constant rise in energy tariffs and utility bills is a cause for concern and concern in every family. This is particularly worrying for low-income families.
Depending on the family income, the remuneration for energy used today is 15 to 45%. The forecasts are not encouraging, gas and electricity prices will continue to rise. Heating and electricity costs in our houses can be cut in half. Typically, the energy savings in a household not only improve comfort and the healthier indoor climate, but also pay for itself quickly and benefit the family budget.
Taking into account the prices of refrigerators and most of the other home appliances on the market, it turns out that buying the most energy efficient appliances is not an extra cost.
To save money, you needto save energy. . .
We save energy, we leave more energy resources for children.
In the course of your life, try to leave more to your offspring than you have. This statement can be completely traced back to hydrocarbons: oil, gas, coal. The consumption of these primary energy sources, the reserves of which are not replenished, has grown very rapidly over the past two centuries and there is a risk that our children will have less left than we have received. 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 enable you to optimize costs and move towards a "smart home". The concept of "smart homes" are built-in information systems that can be installed in the house and are used to control electrical household appliances. The control system chooses a suitable time for energy consumption. It is sufficient to set up the control panel so that the machines and systems run. Then the control system switches it on at the most favorable time when the electricity payment is lower (this is the difference in electricity priceswith a two tariff).
Houses under construction can use renewable energy: from a wind turbine, solar panels, etc. The European Parliament has passed a resolution requiring all new buildings from 2019 to have a zero energy balance. This means that all buildings under construction produce as much energy from renewable sources as they use. The hour is not far off when the same decisions will be made throughout the post-Soviet space.
Through the practical implementation of energy-saving measures in everyday life, we strive to conserve our resources and thus preserve them for our children.
We save energy, use alternative energy sources.
And yet, why do you have to save energy - to gain time to search for and develop new energy sources - renewable, environmentally friendly and safe (wind, sun, biogas, biomass, geothermal energy, etc. ). Alternative energy sources are inexhaustible. The purpose of finding alternative energy sources is the need to extract them from renewable or virtually inexhaustible natural resources and phenomena. This means that when mankind reaches such a stage of development, when all exhaustible sources - oil, gas, coal - disappear, then it will be able to use these sources if it at least increases the necessary technologies.
So it is necessaryto save energy.Saving energy not only means saving money and creating the necessary comfort, but also protecting children and our planet. Each of us is a part of the planet and any action or inaction can affect the development of events.