4th project meeting, Malta
Presenters:
•Júlia Balogh
•Dóra Juhász
•Zsolt Kovács
Batthyány Lajos Grammar School and Secondary Medical School
Students from several countries had
been measuring their energy
consumption for more than a whole
year.
They shared the collected data with
each other at consecutive meetings.
In this presentation we summarize our
findings and thoughts.
Sources of energy in Hungary
Analyze Information
Data Energy audit Take
action
Measure
Average day energy
consumption
Comparing three stundents’ homes
Turn down the temperature of your water
heater to the warm setting (48,8 C%).
Check if your water heater has an
insulating blanket.
Start using energy-saving settings on
refrigerators, dishwashers, washing
machines, and clothes dryers.
Survey your incandescent lights for
opportunities to replace them with
compact fluorescents.
Turn down the thermostat, or up in
summer.
Clean or replace furnace, air-conditioner,
and heat-pump filters.
Improving a homes air tightness (that is, to
cut air leakage) can reduce consumption by
15-40% … proper insulation is a must!
Programmable thermostat is a must
Microwave oven’s use up to 75% less
Laptop computers use 90% less
Switch off the gadgets you don’t use!
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact
our activities have on the environment, and in
particular climate change. It relates to the
amount of greenhouse gases produced in our
day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels
for electricity, heating and transportation
etc.
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all
greenhouse gases we individually produce and
has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide
equivalent.
House 3.26 tonna CO2
Flights 0.30 tonna CO2
Car 6.35 tonna CO2
Motorbike 0.00 tonna CO2
Bus and train 0.79 tonna CO2
Secondary 4.48 tonna CO2
Total = 15.18 tonna CO2
Turn off your lights, TV, DVD player,
mobile phone, computer, when you don’t
use them.
Turn down the central heating slightly
Fill your dishwasher and washing machine
with a full load.
Do your daily shopping, when you go home
after work
Slow down your driving
Use laptop
• Don’t buy fresh fruit and vegetables which
are out of season, they may have been
imported to your country from long
distances
• Try to only buy products made close to
your home
• Buy organic produce
• Don’t buy packaged products
• Recycle as much as possible
my Hungary's the aim to
footprint footprint save our
planet
What we can do…
Everyone can reduce their personal impact on
the planet by using
less energy, consuming more wisely and living
a greener lifestyle.
To find out what you can do to reduce your
carbon footprint, check out
How to Save the Climate, an awesome guide
produced by Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/pres
s/reports/how-to-save-the-climate-pers