Lighting
Heating
Water
Waste
Electronics and Cars
100
This kind of bulb uses 75% less energy, lasts 10 times longer, and gives of 75% less heat than an incandescent.
What is a CFL?
100
This appliance consumes the second most electricity in an average home.
What is a dryer?
100
These use as little as 1.28 gallons per flush, where as models made before 1992 can use up to 6 gallons per flush.
What is a high efficiency toilet?
100
Most electricity in residential use is produced from this environmentally harmful energy source. It not only produces significant carbon emissions, but also causes mountaintop removal, and many other environmental problems.
What is coal?
100
This government run organization helps consumers to easily identify energy efficient products.
What is Energy Star?
200
This potent neurotoxin is contained in CFLs, and complicated the disposal process. It doesn't break down naturally, so it accumulates in the environment. It also is produced when coal is burned.
What is mercury?
200
This fossil fuel is pumped directly into the houses of most Americans, and is the primary source of heating in America.
What is natural gas?
200
This device, typically mounted on the roof, concentrates the sun's energy to heat water for use in the house. By using it for half of the hot water, you can up to $250 per year.
What is solar water heater?
200
By taking organic matter and placing in a designated area, this process saves trash from landfills and produces nutrient rich substance than can be used in place of fertilizer.
What is composting?
200
This appliance consumes the most energy in an average home. Replacing one from the 1980s can save over $100 per year on electric bills.
What is a refrigerator?
300
This device takes the light from the sun and directly converts it into electricity. However, they are typically only about 18% efficient, though test models have reached up to 42$
What is Photovoltaic Cells?
300
This device allows people to easily regulate temperature in their house, and can save you $180 a year; more than three times what this device costs.
What is a programmable thermostat?
300
This kind of system heats the water only when needed, thus eliminating wasted energy by keeping a tank warm all the time. However, they are expensive to install, but can save more than $100 per year on gas bills, and the hot water never runs out.
What is a tankless water heater?
300
Doing this can not only easily reduce carbon emissions, but not doing it with plastic, glass, aluminum cans, and many other things is illegal in North Carolina.
What is recycling?
300
The 2000 Honda Insight used this technology to attain the best EPA fuel mileage of all time.
What is hybrid electric/gas?
400
This is the most energy efficient kind of lighting on the market. These bulbs often last 30 years or more, but usually cost more than $40, but will easily pay that back in energy saved.
What are LEDs?
400
This kind of heating uses the sun's energy to heat the inside of the house. Often the house is designed specifically in order to use this.
What is passive solar heating?
400
By using this method of showering, you can save up to 15,000 gallons of water per year, along with additional energy savings. Simply get wet, soap up, and rinse.
What is a Navy Shower?
400
You can reuse this to water your lawn, instead of sending it all down the sewer lines. It comes from taking showers, sinks, and washing machines.
What is grey water?
400
These devices consume energy even when they appear to be turned off.
What are energy vampires?
500
This element is used in a new LED bulb by samsung, meant to replace a 60 watt incandescent. The element is coated on the inside of the bulb to help change the color of the light to be closer to an incandescent, while using 80% less energy.
What is phosphorus?
500
This kind of energy source can be used as an alternative means to heat and cool a house. It uses the constant temperature of the ground to regulate air temperature through a heat exchanger.
What is geothermal?
500
This kind of water heater uses ambient air to heat water initially, and then heats it using electricity. It can reduce energy use for hot water by 62% and can save you up to $320 dollars a year on electricity.
What is an electric heat pump water heater?
500
This country consumes the most electricity per capital of any in the world, at nearly three times as much as the average US citizen.
What is Qatar?
500
This federal program requires a industry wide average of 35.5 mpg by 2016.
What is Corporate Average Fuel Economy?
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