- Did you know that a typical US family spends about $1,300 dollars a year on their home utility bill? WOW!
- Did you know we can stop spending that much just by saving energy?
- Did you know that one household can save $42.00 dollars with just 1 of my Compact Fluorescent light bulbs?
- Did you know that regular light bulbs burn for 1000 hours. My Compact Fluorescent bulbs burn for 10,000 hours?
- Did you know that my Compact light bulbs last for years?
- Did you know you'll save a lot of energy by turning off appliances when you're not using them?
- Did you know that if you take a ribbon and hold it up to the edges of windows and doors and the ribbon blows, then there's a leak? You can ask your parents to caulk it up to help save energy.
- Did you know if a faucet leaks enough water to fill a soda bottle every 30 minutes, it will waste 2,192 gallons a year?
- Did you know about 700 paper bags are made from one 15 year old tree? But a large grocery store can use that much in one day. So we should save our bags and take them to the store with us or recycle them.
- Did you know that if every American household recycled their newspaper for one day it would save about 36 million trees a year?
- Did you know that if 10,000 schools turned off their lights for one minute they would save $81,885 dollars?
- Did you know some energy comes from dinosaurs? When they died, the dinosaurs turned into fossils. Those fossils turned into oil, coal, and natural gas which is called fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are burned and turned into energy.
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Did You Know...Below are some interesting facts about energy and how to save it and how much is wasted. Be sure to read them all. They just might be on the test!! |
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