CO2 reduction in practice
Households
Today a lot of saving on energy is already being done in households.
Think of energy-saving lamps, the insulation of cavity walls, the
installation of high profitability boilers. Even solar panels are
already providing the supply of warm of water in modern households.
Still there are so many additional possibilities to save energy in
your home. For what is consuming most energy in today's households?
Exactly, domestic equipment, The washing machine, the wash dryer, the
refrigerator, the freezer - all are used intensively and consume, as
said, a lot of energy. This is not necessary.
The WWF and the German manufacturer of kitchen equipment AEG have
taken the initiative to stop this. In a cooperation agreement
concluded in 1997 AEG has accepted the obligation to make its new
domestic equipment 25 % more energy-saving before the year 2000. AEG
and the WWF hope that this agreement will be an example for other
manufacturers of kitchen equipment.
All producers of domestic equipment must give their best efforts for
the development of equipment with an energy consumption that is less
than 25 % than that of the current equipment in the next two years.
This will contribute considerably to the reduction of the greenhouse
effect.
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