Did you know that an empty fridge uses more power than a full one? Strange, perhaps, but true….When your fridge is full, the items in the fridge retain the cold and the motor does not have to work as hard to keep the inside of the fridge cold. The solution: when your fridge is fairly empty, fill it up with bottles of water. The bottles will retain the cold and your fridge will use less energy.
Have you ever thought about the impact that all the data that you store on Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, video and photo web sites have on the environment, not to mention web sites in general? The word has started to get out about the environmental impact of the internet, and the vast amounts of polluting energy required to power and cool the data centres that run it. It is claimed that by the year 2020 the internet’s carbon footprint will be larger than the airline industry’s carbon footprint. Continue reading
