SEM Tips 7 - Efficient homes (Save Energy & Money)

Today the homes must comply with certain standards, according to the countries where you live. Which sometimes require that buildings are environmentally efficient and this refers to the envelopes of the same.

As I am a civil engineer, I can comment that I made efficiency projects in home energy-saving time (something difficult, many calculations) but this can give the customer a very efficient housing and good quality, as these studies focus on the savings based on use of air conditioners.
Experts say there are ways that favor construction or otherwise attenuate energy expenditure for cooling or heating, as I comment.

Although we will not acquire new apartment, if you can do a lot with the insulating glass in our house.

Today already sold prefabricated glass double that help insulate. The heating and cooling consume 36% of global energy.
Efficient dwellings remain cool when hot outside, hot and cold weather, thanks to the insulation.

SEM Tips 4 - conserve water (Save Energy & Money)

In some large cities, one third of the water comes from 1100 meters deep, and must be pumped. To meet the annual demand for housing in those areas, will spend up to about 2,000 kilowatts of electricity.

So try to conserve water as much as you can according to strict water system and drainage of your location and if you can install any type of water tank for reservations, you will cause many long term benefits in water conservation and energy saving.

SEM Tips 2 - Using air conditioning (Save Energy & Money)

When the heat gets worse, in many places the use of air conditioning needed. However, to save energy is important to follow some recommendations:

Unplug the machine

When no one in the room or on the site is used. Or take advantage of energy-saving mechanisms that some technologies offer today.


Regulate the temperature.

Ideally, this from 22 ° C and 25 ° C.

If humidity increases.

It is necessary to reduce the temperature to maintain the same thermal sensation.


During the summer months.

The recommended temperature is 25 ° C. A difference of over 12 ° C with the temperature outside is not healthy, and for every degree temperature to drop 8% consume more energy.


To avoid wasting energy.

Insulate your home. Install awnings, blinds and curtains closed. This will reduce the warming, since it prevents direct radiation from the sun.

Ventilate your home in the cooler hours.

Early morning and evening preference. Ten minutes is enough to ventilate a room under normal conditions.


As the air conditioning is on.

Avoid opening any door or window so that no more hot air cant enter.

Keep equipment in good condition.

Clean it to work properly. Dirty air filters affect their function and consume energy. Cleanse once every 2 weeks, or at least once a month. 

Install a thermostat.

If your air conditioner does not, or does not provide precise information on temperature. And avoid the device is near sources of heat. 

Saving energy and money

Hi there!, i hope all of you are alright today and with a lot of enthusiam to keep a good take care of our world with all of our living an daily activities.

From now and forward i´ll be giving 10 tips to keep saving a lot of energy and money!; 10 ideas to take care of those aspects of your daily life because with the actions of everyone we can make this a whole thing to share with others and make a better impact in our world.

But, really can we generate that kind of change?. Sometimes observing the insignificant that appear the individual contribution to major weather problems, we can fall into a kind of despair that guide us into inactivity. Nothing is more serious but, moreover, inaccurate. It is true that large corporations and governments (in the minority) have power over major decisions, but experts agree that individuals themselves can generate all the needed change. That's right, you read well: "All change is needed"

For example a "green family" some actions are taken, such as using biodegradable diapers, trash composter in the garden organic, biodegradable detergents, bleaches and disinfectants are several that do not harm the environment, such as vinegar. Some training systems of water, allow to live up to 6 months without using other sources of water, etc..

Stop being addicted to the energy for a moment. Later I will summarize some other tips.

Put your house on a diet

Homes consume an enormous amount of energy, especially in heating and cooling, and American homes consume around six times the world average. Once you've audited your home for energy use (even if you haven't) some simple moves can cut your electricity bill. Keep your house cool with natural ventilation instead of air conditioning as much as possible. Use in-room, ceiling, or whole-house fans to move air throughout the house. Blocking sunlight during hot hours of the day can help lower your cooling load. If your house uses electricity for water heating, wrapping your water tank in an insulating blanket can save on power. Also, if your house is heated with electricity, see other alternatives such as cantilever construction for windows very exposed to the sun or a long-term investment in what are waterproof roof or as we saw in the previous post, start a green roof project for the same home for so optimize and streamline what is the use of air conditioning in the house and therefore not so dependent on air conditioning and in turn not having to spend so much energy helping the planet and our pockets. You can also go to a solution this problem by dissipating the heat radiation from the sun so that it can be spread away from home.

Light colors in both exterior and interior of the house are also influential because it does not attract as much heat as dark.

Try to have a house always fresh and airy, but watch out for mosquitoes)

We´re Energy

Imagine that with just walking or jogging you can charge the batteries of your cellphone or your mp3. scientists north americans and canadians created a gadget that convert in electricity the energy generated by the movement.
This gadget looks like a kneebag, can generate with just one minute of jogging enough energy to charge a cellphone during 30 minutes. This is one of the lastes creactions in the fields of human energy.

The energy is produced by a process know like " generative braking", similar to the braking sistems used by hibrids cars, in this ones the energy dissipates as the heat its used to make working a generator.