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As energy prices continue to rise and environmental concerns become more urgent, finding ways to reduce household energy consumption is not just a matter of saving money—it’s also about sustainability. Many appliances and devices in your home consume power even when they’re not in use, a phenomenon known as “vampire power.” By identifying and unplugging these energy leeches, you can see a significant reduction in your monthly utility bill. Here’s a list of 12 common culprits that, when unplugged, can lead to substantial savings.
1. Chargers (Phone, Laptop, Tablet)
Chargers for phones, laptops, and tablets continue to draw power even when they’re not actively charging a device. This constant drain may seem minor, but it adds up over time. By unplugging chargers when they’re not in use, you can reduce unnecessary power consumption and extend the life of your charger.
2. Television...
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https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2024/05/10/10137226_unplugged-12-items-you-should-unplug-now-to-see-a-drastic-change-in-your-utility-bill.html
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Adobe Houses are Very Energy Efficient and Quiet. Thick Mud Walls stay Cool in the Summer, Warm in the Winter. AND THEY RESIST FOREST FIRES... Tile Roofs Do Not Burn when a Spark Lands on Them...
When we rebuild Paradise and Santa Rosa, California it might be an Opportunity to Use Smart Design Ideas. I remember going inside the Mission Santa Clara on a Hot Summer Day... Built over 200 years ago, it has withstood Earthquakes.
Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using the Grid. WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.
Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...
Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS... HERE IS ONE...
https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting
and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/
Lighting for Streets and Roadways Provided by Sustainable Solar Power... SEPCO’s solar powered street lighting systems are an efficient means to provide lighting without the need for standard utility power. Every system provides cost savings by eliminating the need to trench standard electric wires for installation and providing no electric bill for the life of the system. Solar street lights have been installed on highways, freeways, neighborhood streets, rural roads, etc. and provide security, sustainability and an overall green image.
PG&E Rates Increase to Pay for the ENDLESS TV Ads... Telling Us How Wonderful PG&E Is... Greenwashing Ads SUCK - ALSO: I Wish the USPS would Spend Money On IMPROVING The Postal Service Instead of Buying TV Ads Telling Us Everything is Wonderful.
PG&E announces yet another increase to 2024 utility bills...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/pge-rate-increase-18580375.php
PG&E wants ratepayers to pay for propaganda that would garner trust it doesn’t deserve | Opinion
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article287852220.html
Pacific Gas & Electric, California’s main utility provider and a near monopoly, just keeps finding ways to fleece its customers.
The company’s latest gambit is to pass on the cost of a commercial advertisement for its undergrounding activities under the guise of “safety communications” rather than “promotional advertising.” The former can legally be paid for by customers, while the latter must be paid for by shareholders.
But PG&E so rarely acts in good faith toward its customers that Californians can hardly be surprised at such creative bookkeeping.
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PG&E spokesperson Jennifer Robison said in an emailed statement to The Bee that this ad and similar television spots have cost the company as much as $6 million over the past year. Records in the company’s mandated accounting process with the California Public Utilities Commission show that PG&E requested those costs be covered by a ratepayer-funded fire risk mitigation account.
Don’t let PG&E’s glossy, highly-produced advertisements (that you’re paying for) fool you. Once stingy about these investments, the criminally negligent utility company is going the most expensive route possible and now they are using ratepayers to pay for the very propaganda intended to make us feel good about it.
Despite PG&E CEO Patti Poppe’s attempt to spin undergrounding the company’s faulty overhead lines as purely altruistic, it remains a project that the company refused to fund until forced to. A 2019 audit by the CPUC found that between 2007 and 2016, PG&E diverted more than $120 million from a program intended to help underground its overhead electric lines; not because the company had found a cheaper method but because it decided to spend the money on other programs.
So now, after not adequately funding line safety programs for years, PG&E is making lemonade out of lemons: It is gladly spending billions more to harden the state’s electrical grid, and it is using ratepayer dollars to promote the most expensive means possible — miles and miles of cable undergrounding. PG&E gets a guaranteed rate of return on these expenses, while utility experts say there are cheaper ways.
Had PG&E used that program money to replace a 100-year-old electrical tower in Butte County’s Jarbo Gap before November 2018, 83 residents of Paradise, Magalia and Yankee Hill may still be alive today.
Moreover, PG&E could have opted instead for above-ground, bare wire insulation and an infrastructure update at a lower cost to ratepayers, rather than opting for undergrounding, which ranges anywhere from $350 per foot to $1,150 per foot (roughly $1.85 million to $6.072 million per mile, according to the CPUC). Installing new overhead distribution infrastructure is much less expensive: On average, it costs between just $120-$144 per foot, or $634,000 to $760,000 per mile.
Such insult is only added to injury in a year where the utility giant has announced multiple rate hikes. The average PG&E household will pay an additional $34.50 on its monthly bill this year, and the company has requested an additional $14 per month stemming from its request to the CPUC to retroactively approve $2 billion in expenditures, dating back mostly to 2022 and 2023. For customers who get both their electricity and natural gas from PG&E, that will bring the average bill to more than $300 a month.
PG&E’s audacity clearly knows no bounds.
Pushing the cost of this advertisement — and it is clearly an advertisement, no matter how PG&E’s unscrupulous bookkeepers would seek to classify it — onto its captive customers is just another affront in a long line of PG&E’s poor decisions.
There are Many TV Ads Selling Concepts: For Example: The USPS Three Dee Animation Video This One is Especially offensive Since Trump Hired Postmaster LeJoy to Intentionally Break the Post Office so VOTE BY MAIL would not Work... (Democrats Often Used Vote by Mail)
ABOUT USPS: "As the U.S. Postal Service continues its evolution as a forward-thinking, fast-acting company capable of providing quality products and services for its customers, it continues to remember and celebrate its roots as the first national network of communications that literally bound a nation together.
Ours is a proud heritage built on a simple yet profound mission: Connect every American, every door, every business, everywhere through the simple act of delivering mail. This idea of universal service is at the heart of a $900 billion industry that drives commerce, plays an integral part of every American community and remains the greatest value of any post in the world."
But They still are Headed by a Trumpanzee that was Hired by tRUMP to Break the Mail So People Couldn't Vote for Joe Biden...
HEADLINE: Louis DeJoy: From Trump villain to Biden’s clean energy buddy...
The postmaster general has struck up an unexpected partnership with the president’s green guru, John Podesta.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/how-louis-dejoy-went-from-democratic-nightmare-fuel-to-biden-clean-energy-player-00110945
"Chevron is Not Evil" - We are the Human Energy Company... WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? Wasn't That the Plot of the Movie The Matrix???
THIS is Human Energy... Convert Body Fat into Electricity using a Stationary Bicycle Generator... CHEVRON IS LYING! They are NOT the Human Energy Company... They are the OIL Company that is Using Their MASSIVE PROFITS to Broadcast Feel Good TV Commercials...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/02/generate-electricity-with-stationary.html
CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery... Zero Pollution!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/11/email-peloton-ask-em-to-build-electric.html
I've noticed a LOT of CHEVRON Greenwashing Advertisements on TV Recently... All About How wonderful They Are... Just Look at the Happy People DRIVING CARS! FUN! However, On the Corporate Headquarters there are NO SOLAR PANELS on the Roof... They Run Heaters and Air Conditioners USING FOSSIL FUEL... or maybe NUCLEAR POWER from Diablo Canyon...
We Must Evolve from Energy Hunter-Gatherers to Become Energy Farmers. - Quote from SchatzLab at Humboldt State University - Arcata, California
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/we-must-evolve-from-energy-hunter.html
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/30/viral-parody-ad-chevron-admits-it-actively-murdering-you
The fake ad was released weeks after the U.K.-based group InfluenceMap revealed that the five largest fossil fuel companies--Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies--spend a cumulative $750 million per year on public relations campaigns to make the corporations seem committed to climate action, while spending just 12% of their capital expenditures on low-carbon activities.
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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/04/human-energy.html
"PG&E Employs Women to Bury Power Lines" - Yes, we burned down Paradise but... Now we are Ecology Warriors! and Look! Girls Climbing Poles!
The Engineers at PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD Have Abandoned Nuclear Power Completely. NO NUKES Say The Experts! Obviously, Atomic Power is Insane... Everyone, Everywhere should STOP Building NUKES! Just STOP! Enough! and In Fact... They Have! There are Fewer Nuclear Power Plants Today than there were Last Year and Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer.
World’s operating nuclear fleet at 30 year low as new plants stall: report... The number of nuclear reactor units operating globally is at a 30 year low, while new plants struggle for investment, an industry report said on Thursday... Some 408 nuclear reactors were in operation in 31 countries as of July 2020, a decline of 9 units from mid-2019 and 30 fewer than the 2002 peak of 438, the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) showed. https://www.reuters.com/article/global-nuclearpower/worlds-operating-nuclear-fleet-at-30-year-low-as-new-plants-stall-report-idUKL5N2GK2SP
ANOTHER ATOMIC DISASTER IN RUSSIA.
Nyonoksa radiation accident:
HEADLINE: DANGER ZONE - Chernobyl-style disaster fears grow as Russia finally evacuates village near nuke missile blast after massive radiation spike...
RUSSIA is to finally evacuate homes neighboring the mysterious "radiation explosion" which killed five atomic scientists and engineers - six days after the blast happened... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9715988/chernobyl-radiation-russia-blast-evacuation/
No Nukes!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/08/obviously-atomic-power-is-insane.html
1. Value your family and friends. They are the most important people in your life.
2. Be humble and compassionate. Treat everyone with respect, regardless of their social status or background.
3. Work hard and be persistent. Don't be afraid to set ambitious goals and work hard to achieve them.
4. Be honest and ethical. Always do the right thing, even when it's difficult.
5. Give back to your community. Use your time and resources to help others.
6. Be grateful for what you have. Don't take your blessings for granted.
7. Don't be afraid to fail. Failure is a part of life. Learn from your mistakes and move on.
8. Be forgiving. Forgive yourself and others for their mistakes.
9. Live in the present moment. Don't dwell on the past or worry about the future.
10. Enjoy life. Find things that you're passionate about and make time for them.
11. Be open to new experiences. Try new things and step outside of your comfort zone.
12. Be curious. Ask questions and learn from others.
13. Be courageous. Stand up for what you believe in, even when it's unpopular.
14. Be hopeful. Believe in a better future for yourself and for the world.
15. Make a difference in the world. Use your talents and abilities to make a positive impact on the world around you.
—Jimmy Carter
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https://www.wbaltv.com/article/save-on-energy-bills-simple-hacks/61867556
Electric bills have surged 4.4% in the last year, according to the June 2024 Consumer Price Index.
Rossen Reports is sharing ways to cut costs on your energy bill without spending any money upfront.
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Cook with countertop appliances
Don't use your oven unless necessary; it consumes a lot of energy, and opening it releases heat into your home, making your AC work harder. Instead, use a toaster oven or air fryer, which uses anywhere from a third to half the energy of a traditional oven, according to the Department of Energy.
Change up your laundry routine
Another big chunk of your energy costs comes from water heating. Instead of using hot water for laundry, switch to warm or cool water to save money. The Department of Energy says switching your temperature setting from hot to warm can cut the energy use for a load of laundry in half. As a bonus, cooler water is gentler on your clothes.
Check your water heater
Water heaters are often factory-set at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, but the Department of Energy recommends lowering them to 120 degrees. Doing so could save you $400 a year.
Other things to consider
Make sure to keep up with routine maintenance around your home, like servicing your HVAC system and changing air filters. Your energy bill is going to be more expensive if these things are not working efficiently.
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