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ELECTRICITY
How much ELECTRICITY do I use in a day?
List all the things you use every day that rely on electricity.
Insert the watt rating of each of these appliances. You will find
this underneath each appliance. (This is an indication of how
much ENERGY the appliance is using.) Divide by 1 000 to
calculate kilowatts.
2 200W ÷1 000 = 2,2kW
750W
A watt is a unit of power
A watt rating is the rating given to
appliances.
A kilowatt (kW) is 1 000 watts
kWh = kilowatt-hour
Heater
Kettle
Toaster
Fan
Lights
Computer
TV
Stove
Briefly describe how
electricity is made.
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Eskom, last year alone, burned more than 200 million tons of coal.
This released about 260 million tons of CO
2
into the air.
What does kWh mean?
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MY CARBON FOOTPRINT
1kg of CO
2
is produced
for every kWh of
electricity consumed.
DID YOU KNOW?
Mathematics