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How to use electric timers to save money and reduce harmful carbon pollution?

1.Put outdoor lights and or lamps on a timer. Setting a timer to turn off lights after hours or when the sun comes up is a simple and effective way to cut down on holiday electric bills
2.Lighted houses, jack lanterns, window candles or other decorations on a timer.
3.Christmas trees have the come on a few hours in the evening and turn off when you usually go to bed.
4.Putting grow lights for plants on timer is another wat to save on your electric bill while still providing the plants with the lights they need.
5.putting aquarium lights on a timer they only need to be on 8-12 hours a day. Fish need a couple hours of darkness to sleep. They can’t sleep in the tank light is on they have no eye lids. Also too mutch light can lead to unsightly algae growth.
6. putting aquarium air pumps on a timer (if you have live plants in your aquarium) so there only on at night when the plants aren’t producing oxygen.
7.using a timer on candle wormers. You can have them come on cretin times of the day automatically. Best of all there no worry did turn the wormer off before I went to bed or left the house.
8.Air fresheners putting them on a timer makes the sent pack that you buy last twice as long saving you money on those expensive scents refills. Have it turn off at night or while you are at work to make the sent pack last linger.
9.Putting vaporizers and or humidifiers on a timer so that you home can’t get too moist is another grate way to save on your electric bill.
10.Device Charging Stations While it might be routine for you to plug in your smartphone before heading to sleep each night, most devices typically only need a couple hours to fully recharge. This leaves you repeatedly drawing a small amount of unnecessary electricity during the hours you spend in bed. By connecting timer controls to wall outlets and power supplies, you can create an automatic shutoff that adds up to savings over the long haul.
11.putting barn fans on a timer is another grate way to save a tone of energy. Best of all you don’t haft to rambler to plug them in when it’s hot outside or accidently leave on all night.
12.Put a dehumidifier on a timer have it come on at night when electric rated are cheaper. Dehumidifier can be energy hogs but they don’t haft to be just put them on a timer.
13.Window ac that have the knobs you could put it on a timer and have it com on 30 minutes before you get home from work and turn off when you usually go to bed. If you want the ac to come on sooner like on a weekend or day off just push the manual override on the timer to turn the ac on sooner and then push it again before you go to bed to put it back on time settings.
14.use a timer on space heaters to turn then on when you need them and off when you don’t ( like when you leave you house) be sour to use an outdoor timer that says extra heavy duty.
15. pool pumps only need to run for 6 hours a day any more than that is just a waste of energy consider putting them on a timer so there only allowed to run 6 a day ( preferably at night because electric rates are much cheaper.)
16.Your cable box, could be using more energy than your refrigerator. Cable boxes, also called set-top boxes, consume the same amount of energy if not more required to run a refrigerator. When you turn it off you thing it’s off but it just uses 1 less watt of power costing you money and producing a ton co2. Consider plugging all your internment equipment in to a surge protector. Then plug the surge protector in to timer so that it can’t run at night.
17.Modems (internet provider) and or routers putting them on a timer could save you between $.50 to $5.00 a month on your electric bill while limiting you exposure to harmful emf radiation. Thousands of studies link long-term exposure to WiFi radiation to many serious diseases including: cancer, brain tumors, breast cancer, depression, heart disease, infertility, miscarriage, and suicide
18.block heaters set a timer turn them on 2 hours before the hours of day you use you truck. You could save between $15 to $30 a month on your electric bill.
19.bug zappers there more affective at night so way not put them on a timer

20.hot tubs there just like having an extra hot water on all the time. Put them on a timer so there only on the hours of day you usually use them. They make hard wire timers for this easy to install. You can usually find a video on YouTube on how to install them.
Sicarium · 46-50, M
"Reduce harmful carbon pollution!"

Said no plant ever.
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
Carbon pollution on such a small scale is not relevant whats the worst right now is the industries that release smog into the air. Aka not carbon.

 
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