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1801/ Even though most
items in the home today are technologically up to date, most
of us are still using the standard light bulb designed in
1928!
1802/ Standard light
bulbs will lose up to 45% of their light output with use.
However, you continue to pay for the full wattage of the bulb!
For example, a 100 watt bulb on 12 hours a day will give about
55 watts of light after 5 weeks of use. Meanwhile, you still
pay for 100 watts of electricity! Then, in about ten weeks
the bulb will burn out! This is why when you replace a bulb,
the new bulb is much brighter than the one you just replaced.
1803/ 90% of the energy
used by a 1928 designed light bulb creates heat. Only 10%
of the energy produces light.
1804/ Electrocution is
one of the top five causes of workplace deaths.
1805/ Workers younger
than 25 have the highest rate of death from electrical shock.
1806/ Cuba has got a
population of approximately 11 million people.
1807/ Steel is an alloy
of iron, other metals and carbon. Stainless steel is a generic
term for a family of corrosion-resistant alloy steels which
contain 10.5% or more Chromium. "Stainless" does
not mean that these alloys will never stain or corrode, but
that they "stain less" than steels which do not
contain chromium.
1808/ Steel continues
to be the dominant material in automobiles because of the
strength it provides. It accounts for more than half of the
total weight in cars made over the past two decades.
1809/ Steel from six
recycled cars can frame a steel
building that would otherwise require the wood from 40
trees.
1810/ There are about
15,000 Christmas tree growers in the U.S., and over 100,000
people employed full or part time in the industry.
1811/ Trees help reduce
the "greenhouse effect" by absorbing CO2. One acre
of trees removes 2.6 tons of CO2 per year.
1812/ Forest planting
is one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing CO2. To
remove 1 pound of CO2, planting tree costs less than 1 US
cent, developing more energy efficient appliances costs about
2 1/2 cents, and developing more fuel-efficient cars costs
about 10 cents.
1813/ One person causes
about 10 tons of carbon dioxide to be emitted a year. One
tree removes about 1 ton of CO2 per year. Planting 30 trees
per person will remove each that person's carbon debt for
the year.
1814/ A mature tree can
pull one ton of water from the soil each day. This watercools
the air through evapotranspiration acting as a natural air
conditioner.
1815/ On average the
following amount of trees would have to be planted to offsetpollutants(carbon
dioxide) from:
A dishwasher- 32 trees
A refrigerator- 72 trees
A washer and dryer- 27 trees
1816/ The General Sherman
Giant Sequoia in California weighs 1,400 tons - as much as
300 elephants.
1817/ Three strategically
placed trees around a home can save that household 50% on
airconditioning bills.
1818/ The U.S. sends
over an estimated 4 billion pounds of carpet to landfills
annually. The equivalent would cover a two-lane highway around
the world three times.
1819/ The early discovery
that water, wine, milk and vinegar stayed pure longer in silver
vessels, led to its desirability as a container for long voyages.
Herodotus (79 A.D.) wrote that Cyrus the Great, King of Persia
(550-529 B.C.), a man of vision who established a board of
health and a medical dispensary for his citizens, had water
drawn from a special stream, "boiled, and very many four
wheeled wagons drawn by mules carry it in silver vessels,
following the king wheresoever he goes at any time."
1820/ Demand for silver
is built on three main pillars; industrial uses, photography
and jewelry & silverware. Together, these three categories
represent more than 95 percent of annual silver consumption.
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