Save Planet Earth One kW/h At a Time

As my parents “jolly well” know, I have a bad habit of leaving lights on. Even writing this now it’s obvious I’ve left the hall light on, serving no purpose but to make my life a little bit easier when I walk through to the kitchen a bit later. In the other room there are two laptops both switched on (for work), and in this room there’s another laptop with a 27″ monitor that is on for most of the day. So whenever we get the electricity bill I always get a little bit worried about how much its going to be.

Our average daily usage is 11kWh which is almost half the Australian average but then again we live in a one bedroom apartment.

What interested me most though about this bill is it included this little mention of how much CO² was getting pumped into the atmosphere because of my inability to switch off lights, it comes in at a wapping one long ton!

So I decided to look into what the equivalence of was compared to something else I know is bad for the envionment. I found a calculator which works out totals for all of the flying we’ve done in the past 3 months (including the UK) and it comes in at ten long tons which although is a lot isn’t as much as I thought it would be. So I am going to make a more conservative effort to turn off lights when we are not using them from now on.

I used terrapass flight calc. to work out my emissions.