Turn off the ceiling fan when you leave the room.
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Description
Turn off the ceiling fan when you leave the room for more than 10 minutes. Ceiling fans merely circulate the air; they do not directly change the temperature of the air. If no one is in the room, then a ceiling fan is circulating the air needlessly, and energy is wasted.Tags
- appliance
- behavior
- individual
- other
- repeatable
- residence
- year round
Assumptions We Made
Average power consumption is 50-75Watts, we assume low end of 50 Watts. Assume fan originally on for 4 hours (during evenings) and now on only when in the given room, or about 1 hour.Impacts
Initial Impacts
Each time you carry out this action, the immediate impacts are:
- Saves 0.01 dollars
- Saves 0.15 kilowatt hours
- Saves 0.20 lbs of CO2
Ongoing Impacts
Some actions also have additional impact over time. For this action, these are:
- Unknown
Potential Annual Impact
We assume that this action will be carried out daily (about 160 times a year). In this case, in a year you could save:- 2.40 dollars
- 24.00 kilowatt hours
- 32.64 lbs of CO2
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