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Last updated 11/08/10

The Garage - An Update

It seems that our guess why the freezer consumption went up from 3.03kwh to 3.36kwh after we made all the changes was correct. 

Having taken up a lot of the empty space with plastic milk bottles filled with water the freezer is now pretty much full, but having to freeze a lot of water in the first place is what increased its electricity consumption for a brief period.

Defrosted and restocked, with our milk bottles of water to fill up the gaps

The good news is that, having made the changes, the consumption of the freezer has gone down by 21% from 3.03kwh per week to 2.40kwh.

Combined with the 96% saving we got by putting those items on charge onto a timer, the total electricity consumption in the garage has dropped from 5.3kwh per week to 2.49kwh per week.  That’s a total drop of 53% which in turn reduces our carbon footprint by very nearly 60kg of CO2 per year.

What else do we plan to do?

  1. Look at ways to off set the CO2 produced by our cars.

  2. Look at ways to reduce our gas consumption.

  3. Look at ways to reduce our electricity consumption.

  4. Look at greener ways to get our gas and electricity.

  5. Look at ways to reduce our water consumption.

  6. Work out what our Carbon Footprint is after we have done the above.

  7. Find out how to recycle more and monitor just how much we do.