You might want to reconsider whether the old spare fridge in the garage or basement is worth keeping-especially if its main purpose is to store mass quantities of bargain-pric...
You might want to reconsider whether the old spare fridge in the garage or basement is worth keeping-especially if its main purpose is to store mass quantities of bargain-priced soda and beer.
Refrigerators are the most energy-intensive of all electric appliances. Most use more than 1000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually.
If you recycle your spare refrigerator, you'll save around $125 per year on electricity bills. You could save even more if your utility company offers a cash incentive to customers who recycle aged appliances.
If 10 percent of all U.S. households with multiple refrigerators recycled one of their spares, the savings would total more than 2 billion kWh per year. The energy conserved would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by more than 1.6 million tons-equivalent to removing more than 280,000 cars from America's highways.
When will the world's oil run out? It's a hotly debated question among energy experts, geologists, politicians, and others-and this term is at the center of the debate. It refers to a point, possibly in the near future, at which global oil production will reach a maximum, and then start to decline. A geologist named M. King Hubbert first came up with the peak oil theory, so it is sometimes referred to as Hubbert's Curve.
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