Using Ceiling Fans for Heating

Yes – a ceiling fan can make you warmer.
Let me explain – in the summer when you’re hot you turn the fan on high and blast the air down to cool off. That’s easy to understand. However, just about everybody also knows that hot air rises. Last I checked we’re are closer to the floor [...]

P3 International P4400 Kill A Watt Power Usage Monitor

From Amazon.com:
Product Description
The Electricity Detector and Electricity Monitor can reduce your monthly electric bill and help you save a lot of money. Electricity bills can be murder. But now with Kill a Watt you can cut down on costs and find out what machines are actually worth keeping plugged in. Simply connect your appliances to [...]

Turn Off Your Computer!

Do you keep your PC on all the time? I used too – until I figured out that it was costing me $14.78 per month or $177.30 per year!

My PC uses 200W (+/-10) when running with everything on. I determined this by using a Kill-A-Watt meter I picked up from Amazon.com – check it out [...]

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

From energystar:
“If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.”
For each and every [...]