HOW DO TURNING APPLIANCES “OFF” HELP THE ENVIRONMENT, since our appliances dont burn fossil fuel?
Many of today’s electronics have ‘instant on’ devices in them, and even when the appliance is ‘off’ that is still using electricity, a tiny feed, to start the appliance working. Yes, electricity is not a fossil fuel … but it does take fossil fuels to make the wires (melting the ore to metal, turning the metal to wire), the plastics in the appliances are made from fossil fuels, and in some cases, fossil fuels, be it gas or coal, and used to make the electricity. By unplugging all of your appliances when they are not in use (do NOT unplug your refrigerator and freezer if they have food in them, because th food will rot … using more fossil fuel than the appliance does to replace it) but do make sure everything else is UNPLUGGED when you aren’t going to be using it that day … Both my husband and I have computers, and we do leave them ‘on’ and just turn off our monitors, but if we know we are not going to use them for over 24 hours, we do turn them off, by using the switches on the su
Actually coal fired plants are used to generate electricity for our homes. Nearly half our electricity comes from coal. If you visit this website you can find which coal plants directly supply your eletricity. ilovemountains.org Coal is not only adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, speeding up global warming, but the process of extracting coal in the first place is incredibly damaging. Mountaintop removal is the most commonly practiced method nowadays for extracting oil. To retract the coal, companies literally blow off the tops of mountains in appalachia, over 450 have been destroyed so far. This is a serious problem for many reasons: 1) it is destroying the habitats of thousands of creatures 2) it is destroying the forests of one of the second most bio diverse area in the world (next to the tropical rainforest). 3) the excess debris that is produced from the mountain is placed in the streams, or creavices between the mountains, polluting the waters for the people of appalachia (a
