Energy Saving Tips For Your Car

Drive sensibly. Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gasoline, it can lower your highway gas mileage 33% and city mileage 5%.

Consider buying a highly fuel-efficient vehicle. A fuel-efficient vehicle, a hybrid vehicle, or an alternative fuel vehicle could save you a lot at the gas pump and help the environment.

Combine errands into one trip. Several short trips, each one taken from a cold start, can use twice as much fuel as one trip covering the same distance when the engine is warm.

Get regular engine tune-ups. Replacing clogged air filters can improve gas mileage by as much as 10% and protect your engine.

Keep tires properly inflated and aligned to improve your gasoline mileage by around 3%.

Use the grade of motor oil recommended by your car's manufacturer. Using a different motor oil can lower your gasoline mileage by 2%.

Consider telecommuting, carpooling and public transit to cut mileage and car maintenance costs.

Reduce drag by placing items inside the car or trunk rather than on roof racks. A loaded roof rack can decrease your fuel economy by 5%.

Clear out your car; extra weight decreases gas mileage.

Use air conditioning only when necessary, consider opening a window instead.

Free and Low Cost Ways To Save Energy

Turn off everything not in use: lights, TVs, computers, etc.

Check your furnace or air conditioner filter each month. Dirty filters block air flow through your heating and cooling systems, increasing energy use.

During hot months, keep window coverings closed on the south, east, and west windows if you are in Northern Hemisphere (north, east, and west windows if you are in the Southern Hemisphere). In winter, let the sun in.

Activate "sleep" features on computers and office equipment that power down when not in use for a while. Turn off equipment during longer periods of non-use.

Dress appropriately for the weather, and set your thermostat to the lowest possible comfortable setting. On winter nights, put an extra blanket on the bed and turn down your thermostat.

In summer, use fans whenever possible instead of air conditioning . Using fans to supplement air conditioning allows you to raise the thermostat temperature, using less energy. Fans use less energy than air conditioning.

About 15% of an average home energy bill goes to heating water. To save hot water, take five-minute showers instead of baths. Do only full loads when using the clothes washer or dishwasher. Lower the temperature on your water heater so that you are not having to add cold water to shower.

Switch to cold water washing of laundry. Use detergent formulated for cold water to get clothes just as clean.

Only heat or cool the rooms you need. Close vents and doors of unused rooms.

Install low flow showerheads and sink aerators to reduce hot water use.

Seal and weatherstrip your windows and doors to ensure that you're not wasting energy on heat or air conditioning that escapes through leaks to the outdoors.

Insulation your hot water tank to keep the heat from escaping.

Look for energy efficiency labels when buying new products such as TVs, furnaces, cell phones, refrigerators and air conditioners.

Replace your five most used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. These light bulbs use two-thirds less energy and last up to 10 times longer.

Recycle minor things e.g. reuse empty soda bottles.

Take your own reusable bags to do grocery shopping to save the unnecessary production of plastic bags.

Only use air conditioning to achieve neutral temperatures (24-25 degrees). Lower temperatures use significantly more energy.

ENERGY SAVING TIPS

Here are some energy saving tips which are very useful and too easy for put it in to practice. You can save more than 10 % to 20 % energy or more by adopting the simple tips and it will definitely help you to minimize your energy bill, to save your budget and also it will reduce the MW demand

DOMESTIC /COMMERCIAL

01. Clean your tube lights and lamps regularly.
02. Use compact fluorescent tube lights with lower capacity instead of ordinary bulbs.
03. Use fan in summer instead of air conditioner as far as possible.
04. Set air conditioner coolness as per requirement.
05. Use daylight and fresh air by opening windows of home.
06. Use ISI mark appliances.
07. Don’t open and close door of refrigerator frequently.
08. Defrost freezer compartment regularly for a manual defrost refrigerator.
09. Take care for proper closing of refrigerator door.
10. Don't put hot meal in refrigerator.
11. Switch off refrigerator when you go out station.
12. Insulate heater pipes properly.
13. Use hot water as per requirement.
14. Use microwave oven instead of ordinary oven.
15. Turn off computer when not in use.
16. Use water pump as per requirement only.
17. Use washing machine with full load.
18. Dry cloths in open air instead in washing machine.
19. Use solar cooker.
20. Remove un used fixtures.
21. Use light color walls and furniture.
22. Use proper size of motors.
23. Use non-conventional energy as far as possible.
24. Switch off unused lights in lunch break in office.
25. Turn off lights when not in use immediately.

INDUSTRIAL

1. Minimize the use of belts in factory which lost energy.
2. Don't utilize damaged bearings / bushing which lost energy.
3. Use appropriate motor capacity for machine.
4. Use always ISI motors and minimize cable length.
5. Always use required capacity capacitors to correct power factor.

AGRICULTURE

1. Use good quality PVC pipes.
2. Use less resistance foot valves.
3. Keep motor / submersible in good condition and lubricate it regularly.
4. Use appropriate capacity motors as per length and diameter of suction and delivery pipes.
5. Use appropriate shunt capacitor for improve power factor which will reduce consumption.