Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings.CONSUMER GUIDE TO HOME ENERGY SAVINGS ALEX WILSON, JENNIFER THORNE, AND JOHN MORRILL Many people switch off lights and use fuel-efficient automobiles to save both money and energy. But a more important way to economize e·con·o·mize v. e·con·o·mized, e·con·o·miz·ing, e·con·o·miz·es v.intr. 1. To practice economy, as by avoiding waste or reducing expenditures. 2. and aid the environment may be to insulate one's home and carefully choose appliances and light fixtures. Now in its eighth edition, this guide specifies brands and models of refrigerators, furnaces, stoves, air conditioners, and other items that are the most energy efficient. The book also guides readers on how to estimate the benefit of replacing outdated appliances. For instance, replacing a 25-year-old, 20-cubic-foot refrigerator with a new, energy-efficient model could save 800 kilowatt hours a year and thus keep a ton of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. out of the air. The authors also detail the benefits of installing insulation and new windows and give tips on shopping and installation. Extensive chapters cover choosing and maintaining all types of heating and cooling systems cooling systems for housed animals include spraying of roofs with water, evaporative pads with fans, foggers and misters; for pastured animals shelter from the sun by trees or artificial shade devices and cooling ponds are used. . Other sections explain how to use appliances properly and take full advantage of each one's energy-saving options. ACEEE ACEEE American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy , 2003, 247 p., b&w illus., paperback, $8.95. |
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