Kill-A-Watt's Mission
The Kill-A-Watt competition’s primary goal is to get students in campus dormitories involved in energy saving and sustainability. In doing so, habits that help create a healthy environment are encouraged. By incorporating social science research, we are able to recommend methods of improving the program by pointing out its main weaknesses.
A question everybody should think of, is "How can we appeal to audiences?" in order accomplish our goal.
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Interesting facts:
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When you turn on an incandescent light bulb, only 10 percent of the electricity used is turned into light. The other 90 percent is wasted as heat.
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Enough sunlight reaches the earth’s surface each minute to satisfy the world’s energy demands for an entire year.
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The amount of energy Americans use doubles every 20 years.
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American hospitals are some of the most energy-intense buildings on the planet.
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Electric utilities are the largest source of greenhouse gas in America.
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Nuclear energy played little to no role in electricity generation 50 years ago, but in 2011, provided more than 20 percent of the energy used to generate America’s electricity.
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In the U.S., electricity plants use more than 900 million short tons of coal to produce 40 percent of America’s electricity every year.
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The price the environment suffers from excessive energy use would also see relief. With the energy efficiency America is striving for, the U.S. carbon dioxide emissions would decrease by 4 billion metric tons.
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A heavy coat of dust on a light bulb can block up to half of the light.
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Across America, home refrigerators use the electricity of 25 large power plants every year.
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A compact fluorescent light bulb uses 75 percent less energy than a regular bulb and can last up to four years.
Why save electricity?
- Energy saved today is an asset for the future.
- Energy saved is energy produced.
- Today's waste is tomorrow's shortage.
- A thing which burns never returns - our sources of electricty are not renewable!
- Conservation is free and waste is costly!
- Conserving electricity saves natural resourses.
*Website created by: Rachel Omerza, Paul Kassab, Neophytos Charalambides, Milena Meehan, Anicia Mirchandani