An Energy Education Conservation Program
The benefits to the environment instigated from conservation of energy in schools such as electricity, natural gas and water may be equivalent to over 800 vehicle removed from highways in one year, or approximately 200,000 tree seedlings planted and grown for 10 years. School employees, staffs and even students, must be instructed and guided to turn off lights and other electronic equipments when not in use. School custodians should check to see if equipments programmed to dial down at nigh breaks actually do works. And principals should coordinate energy conservation in their school boards and buildings to enact an energy education conservation program. The success of this kind of program is largely due to the cooperation of faculty and staff. The objective of this is to maintain a comfortable and safe environment, in addition to energy conservation. In the end, we will be surprised to see huge savings cost on electricity, natural gas and water and sewer.
For one thing, Nuclear energy is not a motor fuel source but a power source to renewable fuels that can replace petroleum imports. A little petroleum can be used for generation of electric power, when electricity becomes not a viable alternative to liquid transportation fuels. If we based the whole idea from this finding, it is a fundamental disconnection in America’s energy system. The federal government invests more than $1.5 million in two years in order to educate not only students, the school faculty and staffs, but the Americans as a whole on the renewable alternatives of conserving energy. It is assumed this becomes propaganda rather than just a regulation. The people should recognize that this is a broad program that encompasses not only energy education conservation program, but knowledge of renewable fuels that can help greatly as means for practical living conservation. The federal government should expand this program to educate the people about alternative energy resources, and recognize the importance of reducing dependence on fossil fuels.