HueyCobra wrote:kentc, good effort with 175 kWh between two people.
Thank you! It's really not that hard I think, when we're as well set up as we are. At first I didn't like it that we had the washing machine and dryer in our apartment. in Sweden it's much more common to share those facilities with the rest of your apartment building. But as time has gone by I think I've come to realize that, atleast for a family our size, a smaller, less energy consuming washing machine that is then always filled to capacity is probably better then a larger shared macine that would rarely be full. Both in terms of water and electricity consumption. Also all the appliances are brand new and of the highest energy rating.
HueyCobra wrote:I'm wondering whether I should turn off my microwave when it's not in use. How does your 30 minute timer arrangement work?
$10 timer in the cupboard above the microwave. At first we simply unplugged it, but that was more difficult to handle while cooking. Plans of a breaker under the cupboard was scraped. It works just fine like this. I actually checked a friends microwave of the same make, to see if it was an error with our model or sample. His used 73w in idle!! For some reason current is constantly flowing to the motor that spins the dish. It can be seen when plugging or unplugging, the dish will twitch slightly.
Dan's Data wrote:If I plug the monitor into a switched cord then I can easily turn it off properly. But sometimes, when I turn it back on, it forgets what its brightness setting was when I turned it off, and gives me 50% brightness instead. I often don't notice this until I start wondering why my eyes are watering, by which time I now know the extra brightness has probably wasted more power than I saved by turning the screen off properly in the first place.
Strangely, I haven't noticed this on our 2007WFP. I see you have the 3007.
On a related note - how much is electricity in the different countries? Here we pay (approximately) almost $200/1000kWh plus $160/year which means we pay about $560/year for our consumtion. How does that compare?
Kent
Heating is district heating from burning trash and industrial production surplus.
