We are pretty energy aware to begin with. We turn off lights when we leave the room. We leave in the tropics, but almost always use just the fans. We bought energy efficient appliances. We even boil my wife's water for tea or coffee in the electric kettle rather than do it on the stove and then put any extra in a thermos to keep it hot.
What more can we do? As the song says, PAINT IT BLACK! Okay, I'm not going to paint the electric kettle black or the thermos since that would be futile, but I am keeping my eyes out for an appropriate black container to put out in the sun during the day. Fill it with water, let it get nice and hot during the day then night time tea ... we still might need the kettle, but going from hot to boiling is a lot easier than tepid to boiling.
I may even force my kids to participate and measure the temperature in and temperature out ...
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