Como ahorrar energia- Like Saving Energy (English Link)

Normalmente una ciudad no está más limpia solamente porque el Servicio de Limpieza sea más eficaz, sino porque los ciudadanos que la habitan manchan menos.

En relación al mundo de la energía ocurre lo mismo. No es suficiente con que cada vez reciclemos más productos y que la energía proceda de fuentes de energía renovables. Hay que dar un paso más y consumir menos energía, vamos a "manchar menos". Para ello es necesario el AHORRO ENERGÉTICO.

¿Cómo podemos ahorrar energía?

Hay que estar mentalizado porque el ahorro es parecido al refrán de "Uva a uva llena la vieja la cuba". En un primer momento con unas cuantas sencillas medidas podemos conseguir un ahorro energético importante. Pasado ese momento se trata de mantener el consumo energético en unos niveles adecuados. Desterrar la idea de que "porque lo puedo pagar voy a consumir un poco más de energía".

1- En casa.

Donde pasamos al menos 8 horas al día, aunque sea durmiendo. Lo ideal sería tener una vivienda bien orientada y perfectamente aislada, pero vamos a ver que medidas se pueden adoptar si no nos encontramos en ese caso.

Los mayores consumos son en calefacción y climatización (aire acondicionado). Se recomienda en invierno:

-Si el sol incide en nuestras ventanas (este, sur y oeste). De día, levantar las persianas para que el calor proporcionado por la radiación solar, caliente nuestro hogar. De noche bajar las persianas para no perder energía por las ventanas. Es recomendable que el edificio esté bien aislado y las ventanas tengan rotura de puente térmico, pero sobre ese punto es más difícil incidir.

-En el caso de la calefacción es recomendable usar un termostao con programador que nos permita establecer una temperatura adecuada en las horas que estamos en casa. Esta temperatura no debería ser mayor de 20,5ºC. La energía necesaria para pasar de 20,5ºC a 21,5 ºC en un piso de 90 m. es considerable, aunque sólo haya un grado de diferencia. Es preferible ponerse una chaqueta para estar en casa. Ventilar las habitaciones sólo durante cinco minutos.

-En cuanto al agua caliente no consume tanta energía como la calefacción pero una buena medida en el caso de que nuestra instalación sea individual es bajar el mando de la temperatura del agua en la caldera. Una posición que caliente mucho el agua para luego tener que enfriarla mezclándola sólo nos hace desperdiciar energía.

Para el verano:

- Tener bajadas las persianas a las que les incida el sol durante el día y las ventanas cerrada. Lo que aisla del frío, aisla del calor. Abrir por la noche las persianas y ventanas para que se enfríe la vivienda.

-Regular los aparatos de aire acondicionado a una temperatura adecuada en torno a los 21 grados.

En todas las estaciones:

-Apagar todos los aparatos que no utilicemos (de botón) si permanece algún led encendido es que no lo hemos apagado del todo y sigue consumiendo energía. Por ejemplo, el de la televisión, video, dvd, etc ... cuando los apagamos con el mando a distancia.

-Usar los electrodomésticos como la lavadora, lavavajillas, secadora en programas adecuados, con agua fría y a plena carga. Si estos son más eficientes energéticamente mejor. Acuérdate cuando tengas que renovar alguno.

-Apagar las luces cuando salgamos de las estancias. Utilizar donde sea posible bombillas de bajo consumo.

En definitiva, apagar todo lo que no usemos y usar lo necesario de manera racional.

2- En el trabajo.

Aquí suele ser más difícil concienciar del ahorro energético, porque entre otras cosas "nosotros no pagamos la luz" y por lo tanto parece que nos da igual lo que se consuma y no nos enteramos (nadie nos informa) del consumo.

Una regla general es utilizar sólo los elementos que necesitemos. Si podemos regular el calor o el frio de nuestra oficina establecerlo en un nivel intermedio para que no tengamos que abrir la ventana del calor que hace o la puerta del frío que genera el aire acondicionado.

3-En el resto.

No coger el coche para trayectos cortos como comprar el pan, el periódico ...

Utilizar los medios de transporte público cuando sea posible.

Like Saving Energy - ¿Cómo Ahorrar energía? (vinculo en castellano)

Normally a city is not cleaner only because the Service of Cleaning is more effective, but because the citizens who inhabit it stain less.
In relation to the world of the energy it happens the same. It is not sufficient whereupon every time we recycle more products and than the energy it comes from renewable power plants. It is necessary to take a step more and to consume less energy, we are going "to stain less". For it the POWER SAVING is necessary.How we can save energy?
It is necessary to be mentalizado because the saving is similar to will refrán of "Grape to full grape old Cuba". At a first moment with a few simple measures we can obtain an important power saving. Passed that moment one is to maintain the power consumption in suitable levels. To exile the idea that "because I can pay it I am going to consume a little more energy".
1 In house.
Where we spent at least 8 hours to the day, although it is sleeping. The ideal would be to have a oriented and perfectly isolated affluent house, but we are going to see that measured they are possible to be adopted if we were not in that case.The greater consumptions are in heating and air conditioning (conditioned air). It is recommended in winter:
- If the sun affects our windows (this, South and west). By day, to raise the blinds so that the heat provided by the solar radiation, warms up our home. At night to lower the blinds not to lose energy by the windows. He is recommendable that the building is well isolated and the windows have breakage of thermal bridge, but on that point it is more difficult to affect.
- In the case of the heating he is recommendable to use termostao with programmer who allows us to settle down a temperature adapted in the hours that we are in house. This temperature would not have to be greater of 20,5ºC. The energy necessary to happen of 20,5ºC to 21.5 ºC in a floor of 90 m.s is considerable, although only there is a difference degree. He is preferable to put a jacket to be in house.
- As far as the hot water it does not consume as much energy as the heating but a good measurement in case our installation is individual is to lower the control of the temperature of the water in the boiler. A position that warms up much the water soon to have to cool mixing it it only makes us waste energy.
For the summer:
- To have slopes the blinds to which the sun affects to them during the day and the windows closed. What aisla of the cold, aisla of the heat. To open to the blinds and windows at night so that the house cools off.
- To regulate the apparatuses of conditioned air to a temperature adapted around the 21 degrees.
In all the stations:
- To extinguish all the apparatuses that we do not use (of button) if it remains some ignited LED is that we have not extinguished it absolutely and continues consuming energy. For example, the one of the television, video, dvd, etc... when we at a distance extinguished them with the control.
- To use household-electric like the washing machine, lavavajillas, dryer in suitable programs, with cold water and to total load. If these are more efficient power better. Acuérdate when you must renew some.
- To extinguish the lights when we leave the stays. To use where it is possible light bulbs of low consumption.
Really, to extinguish everything what we do not use and to use the necessary thing of rational way.
2 In the work.
Here usually it is more difficult to concienciar of the power saving, because among other things "we did not pay the light" and therefore it seems that he gives us equal what he is consumed and we did not find out (nobody informs to us) the consumption.
A general rule is to use only the elements that we need. If we can regulate the heat or the cold one of our office to establish it in an intermediate level so that we do not have to open the window of the heat that does or the door of the cold that generates the conditioned air.
3-in the rest.
Not to take to the car short passages like buying the bread, the newspaper...
To use means of public transport when it is possible.

We Began

Renewable Energies

The climatic change: A truth and many “medias” truths

Now that finally has obtained that it is spoken of the climatic change, it can be the moment for emphasizing some questions that in these days are jumping to the public opinion through mass media.

The Earth climate has gone changed from before the appearance of the human being on her. Everything changes, already affirmed to Heraclitus, the only thing to it that it will accompany to us throughout the life is the change. This phrase also is fulfilled in climatic questions. Throughout the existence of the man on the Earth the climate also has been changing.

How it is being that change at the present time? After many years of studies and investigations, resorting to series historical of data, one has reached an agreement between world-wide the scientific community and the governments, now unquestionable: The Earth is being warmed up and this heating is being seen seriously accelerated by the human activity, mainly by the gas discharges of Efecto Conservatory (GEI). It is more, the result of that heating is not being detrimental for the ecosystems.

What gases are calls GEI? Although most famous it is the CO2 (carbon dioxide) that is given off, mainly, in the combustion of fossil materials, is not the only harmful gas. The other gases are: the methane (CH4), the nitrous oxide (NÒ), Hidrofluorocarbonos (HFCs), Perfluorocarbonos (PFCs) and hexafluoruro of sulfur (SF6).

Clean Energies – Renewable Energies
Although both terms can seem synonymous and what is worse are used like so, they are not it. NOWADAYS THERE IS NO CLEAN ENERGY, all need some transformation, therefore they contaminate. Although it is certain that within the energies that we can use at the moment, there is more and less polluting.

We can distinguish between renewable energies and nonrenewable energies.
Renewable power plant. She is that that is not going away to exhaust in a short space of time. Most of them depends on the sun and has a great potential of energy, for example the solar energy coming from the sun, the Aeolian one coming from the wind, the mareomotriz coming from the tides, coming from the combustion of the biomass, …

Exhaustible or nonrenewable power plant. That that its rate of use is greater than the one of formation of the resource, therefore will be exhausted in a determined period of time, would be petroleum here, the natural gas, the coal, …

All the previous energies generate, either in their phase of manufacture or in its phase of energy production the so undesired Gases of Effect Conservatory. They generate more gases percentage than others, some have a greater yield. Within the same group of energy generation more efficient technologies with respect to others even exist. Piénsese for example, that in the power stations of electrical generation, the calls of combined cycle have a greater yield (they contaminate less by kWh produced) that the thermal power stations and these are less polluting as well than those of Fuel. But there is no an ideal power plant.

It is urged to us to consume energy coming from renewable power plants. She is the minor of the evils, but it is not the solution. The “solución mágica” it does not exist. The projects that are appearing, and more than will appear, on industries of production of electrical energy from biomass or plants of obtaining of biodiesel or bioalcohol, will help to solve the subject of the CO2 emissions, but probably they create other problems, as the increase of the price of several products, but in case single they will not solve the problem of the gas discharges Effect Conservatory, among other reasons by his under yield.

Also it is animated to us, for example, to change of car, with the very polluting reasoning of which the Spanish automobile park is old and therefore. Sure the new cars consume less and emit less CO2, but some of you, I hope that yes, it has been stopped to think how much CO2 would suppose to make that new car that they want to us to sell. In order to make our old car, in his day the manufacturer emitted to the atmosphere amounts of CO2. We go to “obligarle” to that it returns to emit more CO2 so that makes that new car to us wonderful that as soon as it consumes? Will compensate the change of car the saving in the CO2 emission that I am going to have with the CO2 that it will have to emit the manufacturer to give a new car? The answer is simple, no manufacturer will say whichever CO2 to him costs to make its car, nor whichever energy has used in it. Simply will be received it including in the price of the vehicle.

Speaking of the transport, that is included in the call diffuse sector, next to residential and the others, they are the causes of 55% of the CO2 emissions. Why the transport in average public or groups is not stimulated (bus, railroad, …) as opposed to the transport by highway? It will be because this last one aside from dinamizar the economy is a source of income for the coffers of the state via taxes?

The solution has to come to consume less energy. The only clean energy is that that we did not consume. We will have to change our form of life, either voluntarily and gradually, or will arrive the day, hopefully does not arrive, in which we are ourselves forced. We will be between the sword and the wall. By that and other reasons there are governments who have not ratified the Protocol of Kyoto.
The solution is not that most of the energy comes from the renewable power plants, neither so at least is to consume the more energy coming from these renewable sources, since not always I can choose the origin of the energy. When pulse the switch of the light not if that energy comes from a nuclear power station that is located abroad or of a aerogenerador placed in the Monegros.

Therefore we do not let ourselves deceive by halves with truths. Each part tells his “parte” us; of the truth, the versions are different in the measurement from how it goes to him to each one in the fair.

Now it is the moment of which the governments act and citizen we collaborate them, but I have the impression that we cannot wait for other 18 years, although are sectors that would be enchanted, to continue benefitting from the present state of the things since it has happened 60 years in the last, after World War II. In these 60 years the CO2 concentration has increased of 320 ppm to 380 ppm, is to say a 20 percent.

If we with the planet did not invest the tendency we will not finish Earth, the probably Earth will end us.