Let’s save on electric power expenditure for heating

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2016/01/20 Wednesday Highlights, Information

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Winter has come. Let’s use some ideas to save on electric power expenditure for heating!

Some ideas will be presented.

 

  1. Avoiding heat input and output through the window.

Even heating the room, 48% of the hot air spreads through the window.

It is recommended to use a thick-fabric curtain, long enough to reach the floor. Fixing a heating blocking wrap (wrap containing air, used to pack fragible products) is also a good idea.

When leaving home during the day, keep the curtain closed. It will avoid the hot air to leave and the cold air from outside to get in.

  1. Clean the filter regularly

When the air conditioning filter is dirty, its efficiency is reduced. There is wasting in the use of electric power. Let’s clean the filter once every two weeks. When the hot air is used there is a 6% reduction on electric power consumption.

If there is stuff near the external part of the ar conditioning (outside the house), there will be a reduction in the air conditioning efficiency. External air conditioning must be installed in a airy place, let’s be careful to leave a free space around it.

  1. Use a fan or air circulator to control the air direction.

Using a fan or air circulator at the same time the environment is heated, it is possible to circulate the hot air that is concentrated in the upper side.

  1. Keep the room air in an ideal temperature

In the winter, let’s keep a 20 degree temperature to heat the air.

If 1 degree is reduced in the air conditioning temperature, there is a reduction of 1% in the electric power consumption.

 

  1. Others
  • If there is a gap between the door and the floor, the wind may come in. Fixing an adhesive tape in this part, it is possible to avoid the cold air to get in.
  • Fixing a heat interception canvas, or a canvas that retains the heat, or a cardboard under the carpet, it is possible to avoid the cold air that comes from the floor to come.
  • The yuntapo (hot-water portable heater) is economic and is recommended when go to sleep. In the other day it is possible to use the warm water to wash the face.
  • The use of kotatsu (a table with a built-in heater and covered with a quilt) or an electric carpet also have a great efficiency.
  • Let’s eat food that warm the body like turnip, carrot and other comestible roots like ginger and garlic.
  • Wear an apparel on top of one another creates a hot air layer between the clothes. Underwear made of insulator material is also efficient.
  • Stretching and light exercises enhance the blood circulation, making the body warmer.

 

Content from Ministry of Environment (https://funtoshare.env.go.jp/setsuden/home/saving03.html)

 

Preventive health care on winter infectious diseases: Influenza

2016/01/20 Wednesday Highlights, Information

この季節に気をつけたい感染症「インフルエンザ」についての豆知識

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Basic information about infectious disease

Preventive health care on winter infectious diseases

– Influenza –

If children and young people develop influenza they must not attend school nor kindergarten during a minimum 5-day period. And, even feeling better, members of the family will have to take a day off from their works or postpone appointments to take care of the sick person, causing inconvenience for many people. It is important to take care of our health in order to prevent from contamination of influenza virus.

Prevention tips!

Basically is to use a mask, wash your hands and gargle when returning home.

  1. When returning home, wash your hands and gargle!
  2. Eat and sleep properly to strengthen your resistance
  3. The preventive vaccine will avoid the symptoms get worse
  4. Avoid crowded places
  5. Control air humidity (ideal is above than 60%)

★  Regarding the essential rest period after developing the illness

Based on Scholar Security Law

Essential rest period: must pass 5 days after developing the viruses and more 2 days after fever is brought down completely (3 days for children between the ages of 2 and 6)

*Developing influenza: calculate from the first day of fever

*Counting of the days after fever is brought down completely: it does not include the day the fever decreased, but from the next day.

Source: Mie Prefecture Information Center on Contagious Illness (Mie-ken Kansensho Joho Center)