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SmartyourHome Hands-On course
Module 1 Unit 3: Saving energy

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“The Simplicity of Saving Energy” is the title of a Youtube-video by the popular platform Ted Talk in which the then teenager Braden Hoefer eloquently details his interest in saving energy at home to a mostly teenage audience.
Watch the video here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QxduqnYMw4
However, what superficially comes across as a Youtube video only interesting to white handyman dads actually reveals some interesting facts. Just by isolating the attic of his parent’s house (most US-Americans air conditioning systems are kept here) and plugging out technical devices when they are not in use, he ends up saving a lot of energy and consequently money.
Braden Hoefer tells the viewers that “In one household just with three small projects we keep 4300 kilograms of coal from being burned and the gasses from them being release into our atmosphere”.