1. We bought a LOT of plants then nilalagay namin kung saan pwede.
2. Less appliances. Inalis namin yung mga di naman talaga kailangan, and we rarely run the motor pump. We rarely turn on the lights pag araw. Less appliances running = Less heat = Less electricity.
3. Pinalaki namin yung bintana namin sa kwarto. Sakop nung bintana almost 1/2 ng isang wall namin.
4. Fabric conditioner. Wala nang plantsa-plantsa sa pambahay.
5. Changed from desktop to laptop
6. We shaded all of our air conditioners and applied insulators. We clean the filter regularly. The more heated the A/C is, the more energy it consumes.
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Anyway, just sharing my knowledge about power-saving devices:
This doesn't save you 40 or 50% as advertised, and how much it can save will only depend on how poor yung wiring ng bahay nyo. Kung maganda ang wiring sa bahay nyo AND if you don't use ALL of your inductive loads (these are some appliances such as air conditioners, motors, washing machine, dryers, refrigerators, etc) 24/7, this is very, very useless and can be dangerous.
(For those na hindi nag-aral ng electric circuits, medyo nosebleed na ang susunod na paragraph, sorry pero hindi ko na talaga maexplain to in layman's term... I think someone else can explain this better T_T)
Power-saving devices simply increases the "power factor" (maximum is 1, good-built houses can have a PF of 0.9 or 0.95 average). Power-saving devices are simply capacitors which can cancel out inductive reactance due to poor wiring and/or usage of inductive loads... Basta hirap i-explain, pero one thing is for sure -- hindi basta-basta lumalatag ng wiring ang mga electricians to make it so poor to need these, Meralco doesn't charge us based on kVA or kVAR, but in kWh... And you can't simply play with reactance as if you're just playing Lego Blocks. >_<
PS: Malakas kumain ng kuryente yung CRT (luma) na TV/monitor. Also, the hotter the surroundings, and the lower the temperature of the compressor, the more energy the A/C consumes. Same for refrigerators. You can use ceiling fans kung mainit talaga.
