Sedao's Green Insight

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There is huge demand for renewable energy now but the fad right now is wind turbines.  Why?  In order to have one of these turbines it requires a lot of money, good wind and a lot of space.  When I work at events selling and talking about renewable energy people always come up to me and ask about wind turbines.  What these people don’t realize is that these wind turbines are much more expensive than solar or the program I am with.  For a home to produce enough energy from a wind turbine they would spend roughly 30-50k.  Where as buying a solar system for 20k.

However that shouldn’t be the point that I should make.  People are so obsessed with buying something to reduce their cost of energy.  People need to be less worried about incentives and getting different energy but more worried about how much energy they spend.  If a household conserves the amount of energy that they have then that in itself would lower their bills and also reduce the impact on the earth.  It is crucial that people aren’t taking the easy way out and offsetting their carbon or buying new products to consume energy just to make it green.  What people need to do is be smart about their energy consumption.  People blindly consume and never give it a second thought.

Rather than buying a 50k system to save on energy a family could buy energy saving products or even cheaper buying a power strip and plugging cords into the strip.  When the electronics aren’t being used turn that strip off.  When you are at dinner don’t watch tv!  Why watch tv when you could take 30 mins to 1 hour out of your day to talk with your family.  When you aren’t in a room turn off the lights.  Also don’t leave the charger on overnight or during the day.  A cell phone charger or computer is constantly using energy and instead of leaving them plugged in unplug them. Turn your computer off at night because whatever you are downloading isn’t really that important.