ᐅ How and where do you save energy at home?

Created on: 3 Nov 2022 11:08
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Flury
Hey,

turning off lights where they are not needed makes sense and is something anyone can do.
Or just install an Enpal system on the roof. Then you already have one less electrical problem in life.

How do you handle saving electricity?
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WilderSueden
4 Nov 2022 09:22
PhiIipp schrieb:

The frozen mass placed in the kitchen absorbs heat energy from the surrounding air, which the heating system will then need to replace.

The trick is to put the frozen items in the refrigerator. This way, you get cold transfer from the freezer to the refrigerator, and the building’s heating system is completely unaffected.
ypg schrieb:

Don’t preheat the oven

A popular tip, but the pizza ends up tasting different if you bake it for 15 minutes in a cold oven instead of 10 minutes at the correct temperature. You probably won’t save much energy either, since the expensive part is heating up the oven initially, not maintaining the temperature (unless you constantly open the door).
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xMisterDx
10 Dec 2022 13:38
Well, a bed lasts about 20 to 25 years, right? A mattress lasts 10 to 15 years? It’s not like a car, which contains 10,000 to 15,000 parts.

A waterbed uses around 7,500 kWh (8,000 kWh) over 10 years, and that energy doesn’t come from nowhere. Wind turbines have to be built or coal transported from Venezuela or Australia.

If someone worries that the freezer compartment uses more energy by taking frozen goods out in the morning, they could put a piece of styrofoam inside. You can do that in the fridge too.
In any case, building heating is more efficient than an oven.

The warm air produced in the kitchen when baking bread is quite humid. You have to ventilate that out. So, that’s a zero sum.

You should always turn off lights when you don’t need them. Thanks to LED technology, that’s no problem anymore, as nothing breaks even if you switch lights on and off 500 times a day. You wouldn’t leave your car running when you park it and go into a store for 5 minutes either.
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ypg
10 Dec 2022 14:20
WilderSueden schrieb:

Popular tip but the pizza simply turns out different if you bake it for 15 minutes without preheating the oven instead of 10 minutes at the correct temperature.

You’re right. But what does a slightly different pizza matter compared to our energy situation? These are the small steps everyone could consider mentally... and not use the word "but."
The slightly different (better) pizza is anyway just a frozen fast food version and has little to do with a proper pizza from an Italian restaurant.
Mycraft10 Dec 2022 15:03
I have always put the frozen option straight from the fridge into the cold oven. After all, I want to eat it sometime and not wait forever. My wife says that the product is rubbish and pizza should always be homemade, but sometimes I just like it that way.
HilfeHilfe schrieb:

my wife always says, "we have LED lights, so it doesn’t cost anything^^"
Which she is right about. Except, of course, if the energy saved is offset by the number of LED lights used.
i_b_n_a_n10 Dec 2022 15:57
xMisterDx schrieb:

... You wouldn’t leave a car running when you park it and go into a store for 5 minutes...
But apparently, not everyone has realized this yet. I still see it happening occasionally.

By the way, the other text that can’t be quoted contains a lot of nonsense.
kati133711 Dec 2022 11:12
i_b_n_a_n schrieb:

But not everyone has realized this yet. I still come across it occasionally.

I experienced this recently outside the daycare. A mother had left her car running on a slope and left the sibling in the child seat while she went to pick up the other child. For various reasons, that wouldn’t even occur to me. Not least because anyone could just get into the car and drive off with my child. 🤨
Mycraft schrieb:

My wife says the product is rubbish and pizza should always be homemade, but sometimes I like it that way.

I can enjoy that sometimes too. A slightly soggy frozen supermarket pizza from an oven that wasn’t preheated can actually taste quite good. Maybe it gives me some nostalgic student vibes or something.