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Emission
CO2 emissions On average, 16 million tonnes of carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere in every 24 hours because of human activities.
Lighting One normal 100 Watt light bulb creates enough CO2 every half hour to fill up a party balloon.
Efficient Appliances If just 10% of Indian households switch off their TV completely, we will save electricity worth Rs.500 Cr every year (at current pricing) and 99,425 tonnes of CO2 per year.
Car Emissions The more you drive, the more our CO2 we add to the environment. With an average mileage of 15 km/liter and driving distance of 35,000 km/ year, one car adds up to 4,600 tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere every year.
Irreversible Change According to the Inter- Governmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations Forum for established scientific opinion, the world’s temperature is expected to increase over the next hundred years by up to 5.8° C. This is much faster than anything experienced so far in human history. The goal of climate policy should be to keep the Global Mean Temperature rise to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. At 2°C and above, damage to ecosystems and disruption to the climate system increases dramatically.
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Lighting
Light Bulbs When you turn on an incandescent light bulb, only 2% of the electricity used is turned into light. The rest is wasted as heat.
Electricity needed to power a light bulb 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) equals the amount of electricity needed to power a 100 Watt light bulb for 10 hours.
Light bulbs that save energy Energy saving light bulbs like LEDge+ last 50 times longer than ordinary light bulbs and each bulb can save up to Rs. 1,045 on electricity in just 1 year (at Rs 5 / unit of electricity) .
Household Lighting About 12-15%of the electricity used in a home is for lighting. It is best to use Energy Efficient LED lights in places where they are consumed for long periods.
Inefficient Usage The current methods of production and consumption of electricity are completely inefficient. 100 units of energy within fossil fuels results in just 22 units of energy actually utilized. 61.5 units lost through inefficient generation and heat wastage, 3.5 units lost through transmission & distribution and 13 units wasted through inefficient end use. |
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Recycling
Glass bottle recycling Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to light a 100 Watt bulb for 4 hours.
Glass jar recycling Recycling one glass jar can save enough energy to run a television for 3 hours.
Aluminum recycling Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours.
Recycling aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy used to make the cans from virgin ore.
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Energy usage
Energy from the Sun The Earth receives more energy from the Sun in just 1 hour than the world uses in a whole year.
Life without electricity According to the International Energy Agency 1.6 billion people (457 million in Sub Saharan Africa & 706 million in South Asia) do not have access to electricity.
AAA Batteries A typical alkaline AAA battery stores about 1.5 Watt hours: enough energy to power a 12 lumen LED bulb (typical bike light) for about 3 hours.
Hot water Between 15 - 30% of the energy used by hot water tanks goes to keeping a tank of water hot, just in case you need it.
TV energy consumption An old television in standby mode can use up to half of the electricity as it does when switched on.
Microwave energy consumption Switching off (or unplugging) a microwave when not in use can save up to 80 kg of CO2 per year. |
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Renewables
Hydro Power The biggest Hydro Power Station in the UK is the Dinorwig Power Station in Wales which was commissioned in 1984 and has a 1.7 GW power rating.
Offshore Wind Farms In 1991, the first offshore Wind Farm in the world was installed by Siemens in Denmark. The 165 MW Nysted Wind Farm, erected by Siemens in the Baltic Sea in Denmark in 2003, is still the largest offshore Wind Farm in the world.
Harnessing Energy from the Sea The modern scientific pursuit of Wave Energy had begun in the 1970s by Professor Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His invention, Salter's Edinburgh Duck, can stop 90% of wave motion and can convert 90% of that to electricity.
Solar Energy A Swiss scientist, Horace de Saussure, invented the world’s first Solar Energy Collector, or ‘hot box’ in 1767.
Nuclear Power 78% of the France's electricity is generated through Nuclear Energy.
Solar Home System A 1 KW Solar Home System will generate approximately 1,600 KW hours per year in a sunny climate (receiving 5.5 hours of sunshine per day) and approximately 750 KW hours per year in a cloudy climate (receiving 2.5 hours of sunshine per day).
PV system emissions PV systems don't generate greenhouse gases and save approximately 450 kg of carbon dioxide per year for each KW potential installed.
Energy from the Sun 174 PW of solar radiation arrive at the upper atmosphere at any one time, about half gets to the Earth’s surface (1 PW = 1 million billion watts).
Energy from the Sun If around 10% of the Sahara Desert was covered with PV Cells, we could generate all the world’s electricity requirements.
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