Our home is one of the most important places in our lives, it's the place where we relax and where we raise our children. We use the space in our home often as efficient as possible. Eating in front of the TV, waking up with the sound of the radio and in some households it is normal to have the TV on as a comforting murmur to hide the feeling of being alone. This takes up allot of energy and the question is if we need to give you energy saving ideas?

With each power failure we notice that we have become more depended from electricity. Even during the daytime when we do not need any lighting we notice we are no longer able to cook, heat the house or take a hot shower, let alone listen to the radio or look something up on the internet. Only when we experience a power failure we notice our need for energy saving ideas and the energy we could save if we looked at our power usage a little different.

Yes you do

Our dependency of electronics has more disadvantages, electricity from the grid is expensive and when it is produced by fossil fuels, what most of the grid electricity is, we also do harm to the environment. Time to start thinking about some energy saving ideas you would think? Well yes and no, there is nothing wrong with cutting back on our electricity but do we actually need energy saving ideas? When we stay on the grid there is a very simple answer to this question, Yes you do! You need all the energy saving ideas you can find and we will provide you with allot in the future. But when you go of the grid and produce enough of your own renewable energy there is actually no need for energy saving ideas, although you will use them probably anyway.

No you don't

There are enough renewable energy sources these days to get you of the grid, you can use solar electricity, wind electricity, Hydroelectric Energy and more. And I can assure that you will look at your energy usage in a different manner when you produce your own. You will be more conscious about what you use but you will find that you can still wake up with the radio on. So you wont be needing energy saving ideas if you get of the grid, but we expect that you get so enthusiastic that you will start using them anyway. There is one other big advantage I would like to mention and that is that you will have power when the rest of your town or neighborhood has not.