Save energy... Share your experiences and motivate others
Preaching is a lot more easier thing than practicing. The same thing is applicable in our atitude towards environment and energy. I used to switch on the fan in omy hostel room, lock up my room and attend my classes. I never understood the mistake I was vdoing till this day. The tubelight in my room has stopped working and it will take a minimum of 7-10 days for the electrician to come and fix the ptroblem. In the meantime, I need to depend on the light bulb, somthing which I least expected to take place in my life. I wish to put my hand over the letter s but it moves towards g, thanks to the poor visibility. I now feel the need to save electricity, which I keep wasting so that the people in the remote villages who have power supply for hardly an hour or two can benefit.
It's now time to share your experiences and inspire others to save electricity. Also, share any tips to save electricity that are practically implementable.
AAhem, my case, I reside in a village, we get power supply, atleast two hours in 24 hours. rest we manage with hhand fans, coal, little bit generator till it paasses out.
It's really nice!... I also like hand fans or Neem ki pure hava! two hours is really shocking!
My house is at the feet of a large pond, so, bountiful nature .
Pramoji, then this is not fair, you haven't shared pics yet. I request, if possible please share an article on how you all manage with 2 hrs. power.
Oops I am sorry, 'Pramodji!'
You are definitely conscious of saving power Hemal, kudos to you, when i was there in Mumbai there was uninterrupted power supplies, now the situation has turned horrible i suppose with power cuts, isn t Dabhol power supplies helping ?
Hemal, that's really horrible. Hot place is tolerable, but high humidity. I really wonder how Mumabaikars manage to live there happily with working heavily. You guys are great.
I do switch off my bike/car at traffic signals , traffic jams etc . We follow strict organic and inorganic waste segration , and i do carry cloth/reusable bags while going to shopping thus reduce the plastic usage .
Slim tubelight are the best in terms of saving electricity and emitting sufficient light to read, the best way to reduce electricity is to have well constructed houses which can have light in all the rooms. We are blessed with an apartment which has light throughout the day in all rooms and good ventilation too. Secondly CFL light bulb even though energy efficient, it is not eco friendly i believe, so get rid of it. Lastly Go for walks early morning by switching off the light and return when day light breaks similarly in the night, that way it will help to conserve 1 hour power.
I am so disciplined by load shedding, if sometimes by mistake we have power, still I keep lights switched off for the load shedding time.......not joking, may be because of my strict nature....this happens by habit.
yeah it should be a habit for all.
Thanks guys, one benifit of this power cut is that we are now very disciplined and if we go anywhere, this habit is with us. And we work without fans, a.c. in more than 45degrees in summer. So I feel this makes us extraordinary..(Just trying to praise my little town)
Good initiaitive Ranjith! Little efforts from our side indeed go a long way and help in conservation of our resources and ecology in general.
I do take care that i dont leave any switches on when not required, unnecessarily and all my family members do the same.
thats the spirit. +1
good work there DS. Taking care of these little things are of considerable importance in the long term. In college, after the last class or during the break time, i am often the one to switch off the lights and fans in my classroom, since no one seems to care.
@ +1 The Xeno & Ranjith
thank you guys! +5 to everyone who is reading this in the dark. 
@ The Xeno Missed out your +5. There is bright sunligght entering my room through the windows. 
@ Ds ,+100 , sorry , since Xeno had already appreciated your work , i thought i will appreciate Xeno (inturn your appreciated by me) , you see a chain reaction .
@ Ranjith , i gave you a +1 for starting this topic .
So many plus 1s and 2s . It looks like everybody's bitten by the google plus bug :)
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