[John Gutmann]

I made this thread hoping for a nice response. But I guess not! I didn't mean for you to answer all those questions 1 by 1 they were just things that came to mind. Like one thing I HATE is people leaving lights on. Because it is literally a WASTE of money and power. I jsut wanted to see if I could get people to think about their poer usage. Because even when I am at my friends houses it seems like they could even do stuff alot differently without alot of chaneg to save money and save power.

For example, just wrap your mind around this.
1 kWHr = using a 1000 watt thing for 1 hour
1 kWHr = using a 100 watt thing for 10 hours
1 kWHr = the power consumption * (1000 / power consuption) hours

So lets say you have a 60 Watt light bulb you leave on when you go to work, or to class then to work or whatever. You leave at 9 am and leave it on. You get home at 6 pm. That is 9 hours. 60 watts * 9 hours = 540 WHr. so that it one day.... SO what!? Jacob said a kWHr costs 20 cents in his area. So you just wasted .54 * .20 = $0.108. You wasted 11 cents!!!!! ok so lets say you do this every day of the month. 0.108$ * 31 = $3.348 you just wasted a whole freakin 3$ and change. OK, so what?! Lets say it is 2 lights now. them means you just wasted $6.696. Now lets say you have the same bulbs in 2 lights outside you have on all night (like man$13.y people in my neighborhood.) You just wasted $13.392. Oh now that looks a little bit more significant.

Oh so look I just saved you 160$ a year.....

Now lets look at something else. Xmas decorations......Oh yessss this will be fun!!! In my house we have those little decorations you put in the window that is basically a string of lights wrpped into some frame to make a little picture, like a snowman or star. My mom will put up like 6 of them assuming they use as much power as a normal strand of the mini bulbs it is 25 watts each. oh and this year she had some dear outside (stolen the night they were put out). lets say they had 2 strings each. now we had the net lights on our trees outside. 1 strand per net sounds good. Think they are like 10x10 (light count) with like 4-6 inches between lights. we had prolly about 6 out. then we had lights on our garage on out the house. I think my dad puts up 3 strings there. We also leave our tree on all night. ( I don't know why, I always turn it off ). my mom has about 4 strings on that. So what is the count up to. Oh and 1 light up tree outside. 1 string.

6 x window decor
2 x 2 x deer
6 x nets
3 x on house
4 x tree
total = 23 strings!!!!!

23 * 25 watts each = 575 WHr * 10 hours of darkness = 5750 watts = 5.75 kWHr * $0.20 per kWHr = $1.15

We are paying 1.15$ per night for xmas lights. for 1 month....that is 35.65 just for xmas lights.

If you get paid minimun wage you are working for 5 hours that month to pay for the xmas lights to be on.

Just a little food for thought.
How much power do you waste per day? per month? how much money do you waste?

by waste I mean by leaving a light on when you don't need it and stuff like that. etc.

EDIT: Oops it is 25 wats for a 50 light string so double those numbers 70$ in one month if your Eric Schnabel that is 124$ !!!!!

-John