electric appliance use chart..

VOLTS x AMPS = WATTS

WATTS x TIME = kWh

One 100 watt bulb on for ten hours = 1000 watt hours
1000 watts x 1 hour = 1 kWh

Appliance & Typical Wattage Average Use Average Monthly
kWh Use
Air Conditioning
Window Unit, 9000 Btu/hr 8 hrs per day 321 kWh
Central System, 24,000 Btu/hr 8 hrs per day 857 kWh
Baby Food Warmer - 165 Watts 3 times per day 3 kWh
Blanket - 150 Watts Every night 12-19 kWh
Blender - 385 Watts 6 times per week .1 kWh
Broiler (portable) - 1140 watts Twice a week 7 kWh
Can Opener - 100 watts 3 uses per day .03 kWh
Carving Knife - 95 watts Twice a week 1 kWh
Clock- 2.5 watts Every day 2 kWh
Clothes Dryer - 4900 watts 6 Loads per week 83 kWh
Clothes Washer (mach. operated) 512 watts Per Load 3-4 kWh
Computer and Monitor - 100-200 Watts 4-8 hrs per day 12-48 kWh
Energy to heat water @ 30 loads/various temperatures 200 kWh
Coffee Maker - 600 watts Once a day 5 kWh
Corn Popper - 575 watts 2 uses per week 1 kWh
Curling Iron - 40 watts Once a day .3 kWh
Deep Fat Fryer - 1200 watts 3 times a month 2 kWh
Dehumidifier - 257 watts Every day 31 kWh
Dishwasher - 1200 watts 30 loads per month 30 kWh
Hot Water for 30 loads 100-130 kWh
Disposer - 445 watts Every day 3 kWh
Electronic Cleaner - 50 watts Every day 18 kWh
Egg Cooker - 550 watts 5 times per week 1 kWh
Fans
Window - 200 watts 2 hrs every day 14-29 kWh
Furnace or Central Air - 270 watts 7 hrs every day 59 kWh
Attic 8 hrs every day 75-150 kWh
Floor Polisher - 305 watts 4 hrs per month 1 kWh
Fondue/Chaffing Dish - 800 watts Once a month .4 kWh
Freezer - 15 Cu ft
Upright, manual defrost - 341 watts Every day 80-140 kWh
Upright, frost free. - 440 watts Every day 125-200 kWh
Chest, manual defrost Every day 60-100 kWh
Frying Pan - 1200 watts 15 uses 9 kWh
Garage Door Opener - 1/3 HP 4 times per day .3 kWh
Griddle - 1200 watts Twice a week 4 kWh
Hair Dryers 1100 watts 4 times a week 15 min, 1000kWh.
Soft bonnet - 400 watts Twice a week kWh
Hand held - 750 watts 10 minutes a day 4 kWh
Hair Setter/Curler - 350 watts 3 times per week 1 kWh
Head Bolt Heaters - 500-800 watts 8 hrs a day 120-192 kWh
Heat tape - 125 watts per 15 ft Every day 90 kWh
Heating Pad - 60 watts 5 times per month .3 kWh
Humidifier - 177 watts Every day 14 kWh
Ice Cream Freezer - 130 watts Once per month .1 kWh
Ice Crusher - 100 watts Twice a week .04 kWh
Iron - 1100 watts 2 hrs per week 5 kWh
Juicer - 90 watts Once a day .05 kWh
Knife Sharpener - 40 watts Once a week .01 kWh
Lighting 108 kWh
Make-up Mirror - 20 watts Once a day .1 kWh
Microwave Oven Each day 16-40 kWh
Mixer
Hand, 80 watts 3 times a week .1 kWh
Stand, 150 watts Twice a week .2 kWh
Radio 2 hrs per day 2-8 kWh
Range/Oven
12,200 watts For family of 3 100 kWh
Self-cleaning process Each use 5 kWh
Refrigerator/Freezer - 17 cu in
Frost Free Every day 120-160 kWh
Manual Every day 80-100 kWh
20 cu in/side by side/Frost free Every day 160-200 kWh
14 cu in/Manual defrost - 326 watts Every day 95 kWh
14 cu in/Frost free - 615 watts Every day 152 kWh
Roaster - 1425 watts Once a month 5 kWh
Sewing Machine - 75 watts 4 hrs per week 1 kWh
Shaver - 15 watts Once a day .05 kWh
Shaving Cream Dispenser - 60 watts Every day .03 kWh
Slow Cooker - 200 watts Twice a month 3 kWh
Stereo/Hi-fi - 109 watts 2 hrs per day 9 kWh
Stock Tank Heater - 300-1500 watts Every day 216-1080 kWh
Sun Lamp - 290 watts 10 min. every day 1 kWh
Television
B&W, Solid state, 55 watts 6 hrs every day 10 kWh
Color, tube-type, 300 watts 6 hrs every day 55 kWh
Color, solid state, 200 watts 6 hrs every day 37 kWh
Toaster & broiler/oven Once/twice a day 4-12 kWh
Toothbrush . 1.1 watts Every day 1 kWh
Trash Compactor - 400 watts 1/2 hr every day 4 kWh
Vacuum Cleaner - 650 watts 10 min. every day 4 kWh
Video Cassette Recorder 2 hrs every day 3 kWh
Waffle Iron - 1200 watts Once a week 2 kWh
Warming Tray - 140 watts Twice per month 1 kWh
Water Bed w/heater
Water Heater - general use for family of 4 350 gal per person 350 kWh
Well pump - 1000 watts 75-130 kWh

 

Auto dealerships pay $6,000.00 a month or more to shine lights on cars at night..
America is full of retards!!!

 

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_electricity_wasted

haha this is funny..

 

my blanket doesnt use any Watts.

How many Watts does Compton & Watts use?

 

the electric blanket is a bit off, Most are around 40watts, I could be wrong though..
http://www.ase.org/section/_audience/consumers

 

They probably make that back in the sales that they wouldn't have gotten if the lights weren't shining on cars as people drove by. That, with the added security of having the place lit stops vandalism and other crimes. Trust me, people aren't that stupid, I'm sure if it was more profitable to turn the lights off, they would.

There are car dealerships in other countries besides America, at least to my knowledge.

 

Umm.. make it back in sales.. Thats the point.. A car would be a hell of alot cheaper if they hired a guard at night...
Im a electrician there is a big difference in a $1,200.00 pay to a night guard than a $6,000.00 electric bill thats paid by the consumer..
ride around a bit and youll see this lighting isnt necessary..
I also go to school for administative security supervisor.. and a security advisor for the current agency I work for now.. SO NO the lighting isnt needed.. With a Energy crisis being forced feed to the consumer and your told to conserve energy and these people are not.. Lets get on the same page. OBAMA IS USELESS..

ECO PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF ARE THE ONES TAKING ACTION..

SOON THE ACTIONS WILL BE DONE WITH BOLT CUTTERS.. LIGHTS OUT BITCH..

 

http://www.senatorferlo.com/



"It is time for the General Assembly to step up and pass legislation that finally tells corporate monopolies that we will not tolerate price gouging; and that we will not stand back idly and allow them to take advantage of a deregulated market to reap colossal windfall profits at the expense and ruination of Pennsylvania families."

Legislation to mitigate rate shock A new section to invigorate and educate Pennsylvanians on critical issues facing us today

OP-ED: Ferlo Says Utility Price Gouging Has To Stop HARRISBURG, September 17, 2008 - As I said it would more than 10 years ago, electric deregulation has failed. Pennsylvanian’s are now faced with astronomical rate increases. A recent Penn State study projects that deregulation could cost the Commonwealth as many as 67,000 jobs, and will increase residential rates up to 70%, perhaps more.
These impending utility rate increases and the prospect of thousands of Pennsylvanians getting their electric service shut off or losing their jobs, the legislature needs to act and aggressively take action to protect families. In an already unstable and recessing economy, these rising electric costs could ultimately cripple the economy and break the backs of hard-working Pennsylvania families.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, much of these rate hikes can be attributed to electric generating companies that are more interested in profiteering than providing service at a reasonable cost to their customers. In its 2007 financial statement, PPL Company, which operates in central and eastern Pennsylvania, boasted that its corporate earnings would nearly double to $3.3 billion by 2010. The report added that the deregulated marketplace would enable them to produce electricity at a cost of $16 per megawatt-hour -- yet sell it to their customers at up to $91.42 per megawatt-hour.
This practice of price gouging has to stop. Unless we act soon, the utility shut-off rate, which has already gone up 37 percent compared to last year, will victimize thousands of additional families across the state.
Much of the blame for this deregulated mess we are now facing rests squarely with deregulation and the electric competition zealots who assured us that a bold and competitive new market would actually lower people’s electric bills. No such market place has developed and we are about to pay the price. Additionally, FERC and PJM Interconnection, which control the electric grid, have designed markets that enrich generation companies rather than protect consumers.
To combat the failure of electric competition, electric company greed and lax federal regulations, my colleagues and I plan to introduce numerous bills that would place new caps on rate increases -- and force the electric generating companies to take a responsible role in stabilizing and minimizing consumer costs.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCelx7qe_M
FREE ENERGY Home Generator -Zero Point Energy - Off the Grid



ALSO..

Regenerative shock absorbers developed by team at MIT

posted Feb 10th 2009 at 11:28PM

A team of undergrads at MIT -- led by Shakeel Avadhany and Zack Anderson -- has produced a prototype of a shock absorber for vehicles which can harness and generate electricity back into the vehicle. The team claims that their prototype increases a vehicle's fuel-efficiency by up to 10 percent by using a "hydraulic system that forces fluid through a turbine attached to a generator." There is an active electronic system for controlling and optimizing the damping for a smoother ride than regular old shocks. The team is actively seeking to develop and commercialize the product, and have already seen interest in the prototype from the United States military and also several manufacturers of trucks, which see the most benefit from the shocks... so look for these guys on Grave Digger any day now...

Took them long enough to figure out that anything that absorbs energy can create energy??.. Er' we are smart, Duh...

 

A daring experiment by Benjamin Franklin in 1752, and one which he was lucky to survive, that proved it once and for all. Franklin flew a kite into a thundercloud and was rewarded with a stream of sparks flowing from the bottom of the kite string.

How is lightning generated?
Franklin's experiment worked because lightning is a multi-million volt electrical discharge between one cloud and another, or between a cloud and the Earth. It's produced when friction between tiny water and ice particles in clouds, called "hydrometeors", generates static electricity. For reasons that scientists don't fully understand, the smaller particles pick up a positive charge, and the larger particles pick up a negative charge.

As these hydrometeors jostle about, updrafts push the smaller positively-charged particles towards the top of the cloud, leaving the negative charges concentrated at the bottom. It's possible that the solar wind, a million mile an hour maelstrom of cosmic radiation streaming out of the sun, may help in this sorting process.
Before long the cloud accumulates a massive potential difference measured in millions of volts. This electrical potential creates a powerful electric field, a bit like the contour lines on a map, which stretches from the bottom of the cloud to the ground (Earth). As a result the ground becomes positively charged as electrons are repelled away by the negative charge in the clouds. Tall and sharp objects, like buildings, trees, lightning conductors, and even golfing umbrellas, deform the contour lines of the field and push them close together, concentrating the electric field around the top of the object and making it a target for a strike. This happens when the field becomes sufficiently strong to overcome the insulting properties of the air, and the cloud discharges to Earth, producing a lightning bolt.


So how much energy is loitering up there?
Each lightning flash is about 3 miles long but only about a centimetre wide. It discharges about 1-10 billion joules of energy and produces a current of some 30,000 - 50,000 amps, which heats the surrounding air to over 20,000 degrees Celsius, three times hotter than the surface of the sun (6000 degrees Celsius). In fact a single lightning bolt unleashes as much energy as blowing up a ton of TNT. And although it might look like a single flash, a strike is actually made up of between three and twelve individual lightning 'strokes', each lasting only a few thousandths of a second. This is what makes lightning appear to flicker.

And what about thunder ?
The intense heat of the lightning discharge superheats the surrounding air causing it to expand explosively. This creates a compression or 'shock' wave - the thunder - which spreads out through the air in all directions, travelling at about a fifth of a mile per second.
The flash and the thunder clap are produced simultaneously - as anyone unlucky enough to have ever got very close to a lightning strike can tell you - but the light from the flash travels much more rapidly (186,000 miles per second) than sound (0.2 miles per second approximately). The light therefore reaches you first, then a short while later (depending upon how far away the storm is), the thunder rolls in.

So with all that energy knocking around up there, surely we could collect enough lightning to power a town ?
Unfortunately not - simple maths shows that this is just not feasible
100 joules of energy keeps a 100 watt lightbulb burning for 1 second. So 1 billion joules of energy (the amount in a modest lightning strike) would keep the same single light-bulb burning for just under 120 days.

Could you power a city on the electricity in a Lightning Bolt…?
The average household uses about 500-1000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per month. 1 kilowatt hour is 1000 Joules per second multiplied by 3600 seconds (the number of seconds in an hour); i.e. 3,600000 Joules.
So, the average household consumes about 500 x 3,600000 = 1.8 billion joules of energy per month. So if you could collect all of the energy contained in one lightning strike it would run just one home for a month.

This sounds like good news, but not all of the energy in lightning is available as electricity - in fact probably less than 1% of the energy (10 million joules or so) could be harnessed as electricity because a large amount has already been wasted heating up the air.

 

"Our wise men in Egypt had knowledge that would be prized today, could it be recaptured. They understood the elements better than your scientists today. The ancient adepts could use and harness electricity from the air. We in Egypt used chemicals for lighting, not electricity, which we could not harness as you do."

 

Free Electricity From Thin Air.. ...
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/915226/free_electricity_from_thin_air/

 

I like to be able to see the stars at night.. I'm tired of light pollution

 

wasn't that what Nikola Tesla was after?

 

:sifone:
....

TESLA was a GOD.. There is to many suppressed technologies. While they do exist. They are not really available to you and I.
Yes, Tesla was the creator in some sense of the step up milliamp transformer.

Transforming radio wave, Micro waves into useful energy.. If you understand the technology you see your cell phone will never ever die.

Eventually sub circuits can be built to be small enough to fit in the cellular device and recharge itself from existing radio waves..

 

They're protecting their catalytic converters from scrap metals scroungers

 

http://www.petrogen.com/

How fast can you move with this in all that provided light?

 

you dont cut them off...you go after the new cars with the nice shiny new(not rusted ) bolt on converters..stealthy...like an invisible squirrel