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Do lamps use more electricity than ceiling lights?

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Use one large watt light bulb instead of two or more low watt bulbs. One 100-watt light bulb uses less energy and gives off more light than two 50-watt bulb. Avoid halogen floor lamps that consume 300W or more power and wastes electricity through heat. Choose light, reflective colors for room ceilings and walls.

Hereof, how much does it cost to leave the lights on all day?

A “normal” incandescent bulb costs about 0.75cents per hour, and LEDs or CFLs cost only one-sixth of that – so leaving the lights on (either overnight or while you're at work for the day, say both are about 8 hours) costs you roughly 6 cents for a normal light and a bit over 1 cent for modern bulbs.

Can you start a fire by turning the lights on and off?

Turning a fluorescent light on and off rapidly will shorten its life, though, and turning the switch on and off can wear out the switch. Perhaps this is where the idea that you can cause a fire by continuing to switch the lights on and off.

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Do lamps or ceiling lights use more electricity?

Use one large watt light bulb instead of two or more low watt bulbs. One 100-watt light bulb uses less energy and gives off more light than two 50-watt bulb. Avoid halogen floor lamps that consume 300W or more power and wastes electricity through heat. Choose light, reflective colors for room ceilings and walls.

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How much power does a heater use?

This is most commonly given in watts. If you can't find this information on the package, be sure to ask the retailer before making a purchase. This means for each hour the space heater is running it consumes 1.5 kWh of electricity, which costs about 16 cents.

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What uses the most electricity in your home?

Here's what uses the most energy in your home:

Cooling and heating: 47% of energy use.
Water heater: 14% of energy use.
Washer and dryer: 13% of energy use.
Lighting: 12% of energy use.
Refrigerator: 4% of energy use.
Electric oven: 3-4% of energy use.
TV, DVD, cable box: 3% of energy use.
Dishwasher: 2% of energy use.

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How much electricity does the air conditioner use?

An average central ac will use 3000 to 5000 watts of power every hour for around 9 hours a day during the hotter months. Click calculate to find the energy consumption of a central air conditioner using 3500 Watts for 3 hours a day @ $0.10 per kWh.

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How much power does a ceiling fan use?

Fans range in size from 36 inches to 56 inches using 55 to 100 watts, a typical 48 inch ceiling fan will use 75 watts. Click calculate to find the energy consumption of a 48 inch ceiling fan using 75 Watts for 3 hours a day @ $0.10 per kWh.

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How much electricity does a computer use per month?

You use it for two hours a day, five days a week. That's 105 watts x 10 hours/week x 52 weeks/year = 54,600 watt-hours, or 54.6 kWh. If you're paying 10¢ per kilowatt-hour, then you're paying about $5.50 a year to run your computer. That's quite a range, $5.50 to $631 a year.

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How much does it cost to run a light bulb for 24 hours?

An incandescent light bulb costs about 50 cents and lasts about 750 hours. If you were to leave a 100-watt bulb burning for 24 hours each day, 365 days per year, it would use 876 kilowatt hours per year. ( 1000 watts equals one kilowatt – “kilo” means a thousand.) A kilowatt-hour of electricity costs about 15 cents.

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How much electricity does an electric stove use?

Click calculate to find the energy consumption of a single stove top burner using 1500 Watts for 2 hours a day @ $0.10 per kWh. One trick to reduce the energy use when cooking is to heat water in an electric kettle.

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How much electricity does a TV use in an hour?

How much electricity does my television use? Most TV's use about 80 to 400 watts, depending on the size and technology. Using a sample cost of 15¢ per kilowatt-hour and five hours of viewing a day, that's $1.83 to $9.13/mo. ($22 to $110 per year). Below you'll find energy usage information for different models.

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How many watts is a 55 inch TV?

According to one product review site, a 32” LED TV uses about 18 watts of energy. Moving up to a 40” LED increases that energy use to 31 watts – not a huge difference. But a 55” LED TV uses about 57 watts or 2x the amount of electricity as a 32” TV (though still very little electricity).

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How much power does a computer use?

The power consumption of a computer varies depending on whether it is a desktop or a laptop: A desktop uses an average of 200 W/hour when it is being used (loudspeakers and printer included). A computer that is on for eight hours a day uses almost 600 kWh and emits 175 kg of CO₂ per year.

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How much energy is used in a house?

If you are a perfectly average American living in a perfectly average household, your monthly electricity bill will read 911 kilowatt hours (kWh), which costs $114. But most of us don't live in perfectly average households. (The state that comes closest to matching the average monthly electricity usage is Ohio).

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How much electricity does a refrigerator use per day?

fridge uses 1400 kWh a year, while a modern energy-efficient model uses only 350 kWh — a whopping 75% reduction. At 15¢ kWh, trading in a pre-1986 fridge for a new efficient one would save about $158 a year in electricity costs. And some older fridges are even worse than the average.

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How much power does a dishwasher use?

For starters, dishwashers run on electricity. This report estimates that a dishwasher unit uses somewhere around 1.5 kWh on average to run a load of dishes, excluding the costs of the incoming water. That's a cost of about $0.17 or so in the average American home. There's also the startup cost of owning a dishwasher.

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How much electricity does a light bulb use?

An incandescent light bulb costs about 50 cents and lasts about 750 hours. If you were to leave a 100-watt bulb burning for 24 hours each day, 365 days per year, it would use 876 kilowatt hours per year. (1000 watts equals one kilowatt – “kilo” means a thousand.) A kilowatt-hour of electricity costs about 15 cents.

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How much power does a microwave oven use?

Compact microwaves use between 500 and 800 watts during heating, while a regular sized microwave will use 850 to 1800 watts depending on the model. An average modern microwave will use around 1200 watts.

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How much power does a clothes dryer use?

Let's run the numbers a bit to find out. The “Saving Electricity” website reports that the average dryer uses 3.3 kilowatt hours of energy and estimates an average of 11 cents per kilowatt hour. A small load of clothes takes about 45 minutes in the dryer, so the cost of that load is $0.36.

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How much power does a cell phone charger use?

Far from anything worth being sheepish over, 1 kwh costs about 12 cents. To be specific, your iPhone battery holds a charge of 1,440 mAh, or about 5.45 watt hours. If you fully drained and recharged your phone everyday, then over the course of a year you would have to feed it about 2,000 watt hours, or 2kWh.

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How much power does a night light use?

Many traditional incandescent lamps require four to seven watts to operate. One 7-watt night light left on all year will cost a little over $6 in energy at $0.10 per kilowatt hour. That may not seem like much, but if you have several night lights, it can add up.

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How much electricity does a Playstation 4 use?

Your gaming session will use approximately 210 Watt (140 Watt for the PS4 + 70 Watt for the TV). A 2h gaming session will use 420 watt-hour, costing you about 5 cents (using 12 cents per Kilowatt-hour as the average price in the US.

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