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Energy Management. Good for me, good for you. What is energy management??. Energy management is the process of monitoring, controlling, and conserving energy in a building or organization. Involves the following steps:. Measuring your energy use
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Energy Management • Good for me, good for you
What is energy management?? • Energy management is the process of monitoring, controlling, and conserving energy in a building or organization
Involves the following steps: • Measuring your energy use • Finding opportunities to save energy and estimating how much energy could be saved • Ex. Find routine energy waste, replace old equipment (e.g. lighting) or changing your building's insulation. • Target the opportunities you can influence personally (i.e. reduce routine waste (turn off unused equipment) or replacing inefficient equipment). • Track your progress and see how well your energy-saving efforts have worked.
What does this look like? • Greenhouse Bakery - Bryan, TX • All energy is solar powered • All containers are biodegradable • Cleaning supplies are environmentally friendly • Click to edit Master text styles
Greenhouse Homes • Click to edit Master text styles
Do we really waste that much energy?? • Consider your cell phone... • They must be designed, find raw material to build it, refining those materials, producing parts, and then assembling those parts into a product, the product has to be tested and distributed
Parts of a cell phone • 1.Case: the plastic housing that contains all the other components 2. Display: usually a LCD (liquid crystal display) screen where all the information appears 3. Printed Wiring Board: The green boards, including all the chips and other electronic components mounted on them, which also found in computers and most other electronic devices. 4. Keypad, usually plastic 5. Microphone and Speaker 6. Antenna 7. Battery 8. Adapter
And for what? • The average use of a cell phone by a consumer is ~18 months! • Between 0.8 and 4 % of municipal waste in Europe and the U.S. are electronics • Then what do we do with them? • Look for companies that offer recycling services for electronics
What can we do about this? Where can we impact? • Work with your neighbors and discuss ways in which the school can save energy • How would you fix that problem? • Create a cool poster or bumper sticker to hang around the school to raise “green” awareness!!!