Presenters: Júlia Balogh Dóra Juhász Zsolt Kovács 4th project meeting, Malta Batthyány Lajos Grammar School and Secondary Medical School

 Students from several countries had been measuring their energy consumption for more than a whole year.  They shared the collected data with each other at consecutive meetings.  In this presentation we summarize our findings and thoughts.

Sources of energy in Hungary

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 Turn down the temperature of your water heater to the warm setting (48,8 C%).  Check if your water heater has an insulating blanket.  Start using energy-saving settings on refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, and clothes dryers.  Survey your incandescent lights for opportunities to replace them with compact fluorescents.  Turn down the thermostat, or up in summer.  Clean or replace furnace, air-conditioner, and heat-pump filters.

IImproving a homes air tightness (that is, to cut air leakage) can reduce consumption by 15-40% … proper insulation is a must! PProgrammable thermostat is a must MMicrowave oven’s use up to 75% less LLaptop computers use 90% less SSwitch off the gadgets you don’t use!

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

House3.26 tonna CO2 Flights0.30 tonna CO2 Car6.35 tonna CO2 Motorbike0.00 tonna CO2 Bus and train0.79 tonna CO2 Secondary4.48 tonna CO2 Total = tonna CO2

 Turn off your lights, TV, DVD player, mobile phone, computer, when you don’t use them.  Turn down the central heating slightly  Fill your dishwasher and washing machine with a full load.  Do your daily shopping, when you go home after work  Slow down your driving  Use laptop

Don’t buy fresh fruit and vegetables which are out of season, they may have been imported to your country from long distances Try to only buy products made close to your home Buy organic produce Don’t buy packaged products Recycle as much as possible

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 Everyone can reduce their personal impact on the planet by using  less energy, consuming more wisely and living a greener lifestyle.  To find out what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint, check out  How to Save the Climate, an awesome guide produced by Greenpeace:  s/reports/how-to-save-the-climate-pers s/reports/how-to-save-the-climate-pers