Saving Money While Cooling Your Home

Let’s face it, the summers are brutal in South Florida and the air conditioning in every household is working double time. By the 1920s, the modern air conditioning was common. These days Americans, according to the US Department of Energy, spend more than $22 million a year on electricity to cool their homes with air conditioning and use 183 billion kilowatt-hours. That’s 15% of al energy is some homes, and up to 70% in homes in warmer climates like in Jacksonville, Florida. Walletpop online puts it in other words. A floor fan uses 110 watts on the highest speed, a ceiling an uses 15 to 95 watts depending on size and speed, a window unit air conditioner uses 500 to 1440 watts and a 2.5 ton central system uses 3500 watts.
Costing less than a penny an hour, is the ceiling fan. Plus, All My Sons of Jacksonville reminds you, they don’t have to be on when you’re not in the room. So that’s definitely an alternative or in support of your AC. Using a ceiling fan can drop and cool the temperature in a room form 3 to 8 degrees. A neat trick is to cool the a room you’re in and then just use a ceiling fan.