Why Renewable DIY Energy/EnergyConservation

Renewable DIY Energy/Conservation.

Welcome to my blog, on Renewable DIY Energy and Energy conservation for the home, and in fact anywhere and any way, we can conserve energy.

I’m a great proponent of renewable energy and energy conservation. I read some years ago, ( Please don’t ask me to quote the source, but it was a very good article, also about how archaic our house building practices are in the UK.), that it would cost vey little extra to incorporate renewable energy devices into the build of a new house, enough to make it totally, power, self sufficient. Well, surprise, this has never happened, and why would it? Power company’s need to make a profit, people need jobs, this is the way our economy’s are, in a million and one ways. Our governments and conglomerates, for the sake of fast, huge profits, have gone a very long way down the road of making natural resource guzzling, air polluting energy. Instead of thinking, hang on a minute, if we use up our world, and choke it to death, where will we live? I’m not talking about houses here, we can all move house, but I think it’s going to be just a tad more difficult to move worlds. But never mind, the vast majority of us live very comfortable lives, thank you very much. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but I am saying that we can live just as comfortable lives, but just not take so much.

But think, how comfortable would our lives be, if the conglomerates in power had thought about our planet, and thought about renewable resources. We may have largely self sufficient renewable energy using houses, and be driving around in nice, comfortable, quiet, fume free cars. It’s the stuff of fiction no more; it really has to be our future.

I realize that almost every gadget we buy is, in use, and in disposal, is bad for our environment, and I for one, don’t want to stop using my computer, or stop watching my television, or stop driving my car, but our lives largely demand their usage, although the television is debatable. However we can control some of these things by optimising usage, and conserving power.

Energy conservation is as important as producing our own green energy. In fact, the two go hand in hand. With the best will in the world, unless you are lucky enough to live on top of a hill, and have 24 hour wind, or live in a very hot climate, and put out massive arrays of solar panels, most DIY Energy systems have limited capacity, so power usage still has to be within their means, mostly due to the practical constraints of where most of us live, certainly here in the U.K. Regardless of whether or not we have DIY Energy in our home, the less load we put on the national grid, the better it will be for our environment, and for us.

Personally, I do most of my television watching, on my computer, so that is a power saving, albeit, a very small one. I’m also evaluating a very cheap fuel saving device fitted to my car, which does look very promising. Imagine if everyone could save 60 or 70 miles on a tank full of juice, what a difference that would make. I don’t use the car A/C, though admittedly, in the UK there is not much call for it. Also, every single bulb in our house is an energy saver. We have a huge amount of insulation in our attic, and our central heating is turned down to a comfortable minimum. Also, we leave nothing on standby, when our electronic equipment is not being used; it’s switched off at the mains. Not many people realise as well, that mobile phone chargers draw power all the time they are switched on, not just when they are charging the phone. The same applies for most household use transformers.

With the continuing and growing strain on the world’s natural resources, and, not to mention the rising cost of utility services, we all owe it to our world, and to our selves, to relieve some of this ever growing pressure, and explore, and utilise where practicable, DIY renewable energy, and also energy saving devices and practices.

Remember, if we look after our World, and Mother Nature, she will surely look after us.