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This Is My Essay For My Esl Writing Class. Can Anyone Give Me Any Advice? Thank You Very Much.?
My siblings and I are crazy about shopping online. Every other week a package is delivered in front of our door. Buying online provides us much simpler to find anything what we need and is easy to compare with other similar products. I usually scan my favorite webpage to find out their new products rather than spending half day to go to the mall. According to a research report, ‘How Do People Evaluate a Web Site’s Credibility?’ by Stanford University and Consumer Web Watch states, “With more than 50 percent of the U.S. population having Internet access, the World Wide Web has become an important channel for providing information and services.” (2002) Therefore, the companies put a lot of resources to create an attractive and useful webpage in order to keep their consumers to stay and browse their websites. A good retailer website all contains the effective elements on it such as organizing categories, the ability to read, the ability to search items, and ability to realize the item from the picture. The two retailer web sites I am going to evaluate are The Body Shop website (TBS) and The Bath and Body Work website (BBW). As a consumer, I realize TBS is more successful, because of its pleasing visual appeal, smooth easy access, and understandable information. TBS has better visual appeal than BBW web. Visual appeal is the setting of pictures, color tones and graphic presentations which always give us the first impression. A web design expert, Tom Dahm states, “Color is also important for emphasizing the most important parts of our page. Remember that the purpose of Web design is to draw the visitor’s eye to key page elements.” (2001). TBS keep using green consistently to highlight its natural ingredients, so the basic colors of website are green, white and black. On the homepage, it presents the products in front of the leaves with the black background. The clear background colors are not only for emphasizing TBS’s natural idea but also for highlighting of the soft color of its skin product’s image. TBS impacts visitors to have a positive impression about its natural products by using leaves in the background to make a color contrast with its products’ surface tone. In addition, there is a big rectangular picture in the middle of the website and three small rectangular pictures on its bottom. For all pictures, it shows the products on the left and descriptions on the right. Using this simple design can help the consumer to discover the products and the promotion at same time. The heading also defines the important promotion explicitly, and makes consumer easily to get into the sale event. In contrast, BBW is using a light brown color in autumn. The color of BBW’s homepage is changed many times with the seasons. The brown is not a right choice, because it does not match its colorful products. BBW uses flash pictures to show three different products which are home fragrance, body care, and anti-bacterial soap. In this way, it may introduce several products once to the visitor; unfortunately, it does not make strong impression to us. TBS has more incredible attraction than BBW because the visual appeal is organized and clear. Easy access is another reason to show TBS is better than BBW beside visual appeal. It accomplishes helping customers to find its products, if the website is organized. On TBS, there is a green scroll bar with white text on the top of the big picture. While the visitor places the mouse on any title of the green bar, it will scroll down with other subtitles. We can find the product quickly by selecting the subtitle on the scroll bar. On the other hand, BBW website does not provide a scrolling system. It has only a white bar with thin black text. When we want to find an item we have to click on the section, and then it will bring us to another page. On the second page it uses another setting by showing the small subjects on the vertical column on the left side. Moreover, there are the products’ brands (BBW sells different brands) by using several groups of subtitles under different titles on vertical column. For example, if I want to buy a lip gloss, I just click a button, “Lip gloss” under “Make Up” using the green scroll bar on the TBS homepage. However, I need to do more steps to find a lip gloss: firstly click the “Face & Hair”, secondly select a brand under “Makeup Brands”, then I will see some lip gloss on the third page. We might get bothered and unfocused when we go to too many pages to look for an item. The arrangement of BBW is more difficult for the visitor’s eyes to follow. If anyone is not the BBW’s coustomer, he will spend more time to figure out its complex setting. TBS is more successful by having more outstanding access, when it compares with BBW webpage. TBS website is more particular than BBW by providing good information. TBS and BBW carry many skin products. I have an experience of ordering an eye cream form BBW website. Indeed, it is easier if buying the item in
How Much Energy Does Your Refrigerator Consume? How To Find Out On Your Terms
Before you rush out and get a new energy saving refrigerator, it’s important to understand how much energy your old fridge consumes. Why? For three reasons. First, because you’ll be looking at Energy Guide labels on the new fridges, to find out which ones will cost the least to operate, and you might as well have an idea of how they compare to your existing refrigerator. Second, if you want to replace your fridge mainly to save electricity, you may find out that you don’t need to. While today’s refrigerators are far more efficient than those of ten years ago, your fridge may turn out to be efficient enough that there isn’t a convincing motivation to replace it. You might save more money on energy, for the same investment, on weatherproofing or a new window or two. Third, you may discover your existing fridge uses so much energy, that a refrigerator tune-up will save you money even in the short time before you buy the new unit. Things that can really help are: checking the gaskets for leaks or cracks, checking the temperature in both compartments (38-40F for fridge, 5F for freezer), ensuring the compressor and coils are dust free; and keeping good air circulation around the unit. Even if you find out that your old refrigerator is an electricity hog and you do a tune-up, you might find that the tune-up on its own will result in big electricity savings. Your current refrigerator could easily be costing you $25 to $125 a year more than it should, and your new refrigerator may turn out to be less efficient than its ENERGY STAR label claims, depending on how you use it. But if you merely assume that a refrigerator uses what its label claims, you’ll be leaving a big opportunity on the table. What if I told you that $20 could save you at least $40 a year, every year? It turns out that there is an inexpensive device that can do just what we’re after: measure the energy consumption of your fridge. I bought a Kill A Watt meter about five years back and have used it to measure the energy consumption of many appliances in my house. I have also lent it to friends and family so that they could uncover energy savings of their own. These meters are available for about $20 and they measure how many kilowatt hours per day (kwh/day) an appliance like a fridge consumes. A measurement takes about three days, because a fridge cycles on and off, and only a longer measurement irons out the peaks and valleys of the refrigerator’s electricity use. But once you have that reading, you will know what your refrigerator consumes and you can start choosing actions to save electricity, or you can make a more sound decision about replacing your old refrigerator. The Kill A Watt meter measures electricity use in several ways. The important readings for our purposes are time elapsed and kilowatt hours used. The Kill A Watt meter measures both of these values from the moment it is plugged in, so if you plug in the meter, then plug your fridge into the meter soon after, you’ll start to see how much electricity your refrigerator uses once a minimum of 24 hours have passed. Follow these steps: 1. Pull your refrigerator out from the wall. Unplug it and plug an extension cord into the wall outlet instead. 2. Plug the Kill A Watt meter into the other end of the extension cord, and the fridge plug into that. Leave the meter where its display is visible. 3. Push the fridge back. (You can just stick the Kill A Watt meter between the wall socket and the refrigerator, if that allows you to see the meter while you’re taking the measurement.) 4. Wait at least 36 hours to measure. Ideally you should wait 48 to 96 hours. If you keep pressing the red button on the Kill A Watt meter you will see readings for, among others, the hours and minutes elapsed, and the kilowatt hours consumed. You can compute kilowatt hours per day using the following formula: kwh/day = kwh / ((hours/24)+(minutes/1440)) So if the final reading is 2.37 kwh and the elapsed time is 34h22m, the consumption would be 2.37 / ((34/24)+(22/1440)), or 1.655 kwh/day. Don’t wait more than four days to do your reading, because the time elapsed measurement wraps back to zero at 99h59m. Most fridges are rated in terms of kilowatt hours consumed per year, so to compare your existing refrigerator with what’s available now, you can multiply the kwh/day result by 365. Our hypothetical fridge which we determined uses 1.655 kwh/day consumes 604 kwh/year. A 16 cubic foot Sun Frost fridge, in comparison – one of the most efficient refrigerators available – consumes only 254 kwh/year. You can see how your existing fridge stacks up against new models by searching the www.energystar.gov database, for models that share features of your refrigerator. Fridge efficiency standards have gone up in recent years, and a fridge typically consumes more energy as it ages, due to worn gaskets, dust buildup on compressor and coils, wear and tear on the motor, and occasionally loss of refrigerant. And ENERGY STAR rated refrigerators must be at least 20% more efficient than the standard, so if you own an old refrigerator that was not ENERGY STAR rated when you bought it, you can see there is a big potential for savings, especially if you know your current consumption. The efficiency requirement for refrigerators varies based on configuration (top or bottom freezer, side-by-side, or no freezer), volume, defrost features, and refrigerant type. And the formula is so convoluted that few people other than US EPA and DOE officials, and appliance company engineers, can really grasp it. So rather than quote the standard let’s look at a couple of examples. An ENERGY STAR rated, 10 cubic foot, auto defrost unit that consumes 309 kilowatt hours per year, is 21% better than the minimum required for its category. A 14 cubic foot partially automatic defrost unit that uses 254 kilowatt hours per year, is an amazing 36% better than the standard specifies. As you can see, even for units that sport an ENERGY STAR logo, there is a wide range of efficiencies, and don’t forget that a large unit that exceeds the standard by 36% may still use more energy than a smaller fridge that exceeds the standard by only 20%, if the minimum standard for the two fridges is different. If you can choose a smaller refrigerator when you buy a new one, you will certainly save more energy. Once you have measured how much electricity your refrigerator uses (it will probably be in the range of 400 and 600 kilowatt hours per year, depending on the size of unit, or even more if you have wasteful features such as side-by-side doors or an exterior ice and cold water dispenser) you can compare the consumption of your unit to those at the ENERGY STAR website, and see if it’s time to do a refrigerator tune up, or replace your refrigerator altogether. If you’re in luck, you might discover that the model you have now is already an energy saving refrigerator. If not, at least you’ll have a great tool for seeing if your new fridge measures up to its billing. Robin Green owns Green-Energy-Efficient-Homes.com, a website that helps people cut their home energy use. For more on saving electricity with your fridge, see Energy saving refrigerators and Kill A Watt meter on Green Energy Efficient Homes.
How Much Does Wind Power And Solar Power Cost?
In Australia how much would it cost to have a farm of wind power and solar power. If possible pls tell the cost of each thing individually. Also a sources where the information is found
How Much Does Solar Power Cost
The more you read and learn about solar power, the more you will understand just how much does solar power cost. Solar power is a free natural source of energy from up above, it?s a gift of God, we call it the sun and it is for everyone to use. When solar energy hits the earth it brings us heat, warmth and a sense of well being, it spreads over the earth’s surface evenly. Just like we capture the sun’s rays into our car in the summer when the windows are closed, and we open the windows to let the heat out, solar panels are doing a similar job capturing the rays of the sun and converting it into electrical charges useable to heat our homes, power our appliances, heat your water, run your air conditioner, TV, DVD and a lot more. Unlike gas or oil heaters that you continue to pay monthly in order to have power or gas heat in your home. Solar power does provide heating, cooling and ventilation, free of charges. How much does solar power cost in a long run, nothing and you may not know this but the electrical companies will pay you money for having your meter run on the opposite direction. Greenhouses operate with the same principle having glass or clear plastic all around it attracting and capturing the sun and not allow it to escape causing the greenhouse to stay very warm for the plants to grow effectively. A home solar power system can cost you around $3,500.00 and more depending on many things, like the size of your home, the amount of appliances used, the size of your family, the amount of electronic components used and much more. There are some very good step by step guides with videos out there to help you build your own solar power system even if you know nothing about solar power. I have come across one package on the internet that claims that you can build your own home solar power system for about $200.00, now that is amazing and hard to believe. Think of all the money you will be saving and all the nice things you will be able to afford for your home with those savings and much more. You shouldn’t ask yourself how much does solar power cost but rather ask yourself how much money will I save ? In time, solar energy helps to heat your home naturally without worrying about the high electrical bill at the end of the month. and without depending on a company to supply it for you. Solar energy is found wherever the sun is shinning. Did you find this article useful? If you did and are interested in learning how to build your own solar power system for very cheap and start generating your own electricity from the sun ,visit : http://bytelan.com/HomemadeSolarCell.htm
How Much Does Solar Power Cost In Australia ?
I am considering getting solar power for my house. Does anybody have an appox idea how much it would cost to fit my house with this. We just have a typical 3 bedroom house. I have also heard that if your solar panels produce more energy than what you use, it will go back into the power grid, and the energy company will pay you. Is this right? If so any ideas on how much you get back?Thanks
How To Calculate How Much Energy Converted From Solar Energy To Electricity?
Dear All, How can I calculate how much energy converted from Solar Energy to Electricity? Does it based on the how strong of the sunlight? Does it based on how many solar cell? Any detail equations for this purpose? Thanks a lot.