Luckily I am used to it, most winters I dont use my heating, I just put on extra clothes and spend extra time under the quilt. Its really only my cold feet that give me problems. Its why I ended up with such a big credit balance as the algorithms assume winter usage is much higher than summer and mine isnt.
Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)
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Time to invest in some good slippers I reckon.
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I’ve not needed heating in London for the last couple of years. Granted further north will see lower temperatures.
I don't think you can be disconnected if under 18s in the house, or if all people over 65
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Read the article and it sounds like some kind of scam. Borrow money now because you might need it in January.
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Don't worry, I'm not switching to it.
It takes a lot of effort (emissions) to build a facility to harness that energy. It probably wouldn't be straightforward to work out a comparison between total emissions (per kWh, say) over the lifetime of each facilities, but a tree can be chopped down by one guy with an axe...
Not sure what you're really driving at. I don't think I've seen anyone make the excuse of it's offset by decomposing. Point is, the carbon in coal was trapped underground for millions of years, it can't easily be recaptured and stored back again in any meaningful way and releasing it all at once (ie. over a century or two) is a significant imbalance. Whereas releasing the carbon trapped in a tree that took 50 years to grow, when that carbon can easily be recaptured by planting another tree to replace it, is a big improvement, even once accounting for transportation etc.
There's no perfectly green solution, for as long as we all want to keep having central heating / air con, and electricity, but some ways are not as bad as others.
The future is low powered items and self generation.
No TV ,pc etc just a smart phone. Tbf we are almost there.
Using a Watts Up Pro Electricity Consumption Meter, we discovered that giving a full charge to an iPhone 6 uses about 10.5 watt-hours of electricity.25 Sept 2019
No TV ,pc etc just a smart phone. Tbf we are almost there.
Using a Watts Up Pro Electricity Consumption Meter, we discovered that giving a full charge to an iPhone 6 uses about 10.5 watt-hours of electricity.25 Sept 2019
Heating/cooling is where the bulk of the energy goes I think, so fewer and/or more efficient consumer electronics only gets you so far.
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From the Open University -
Biofuels
This free course, Biofuels, investigates what is meant by a biofuel and covers the advantages of using biofuels compared with fossil fuels. The different types of biofuel are explored, with ...
The wood would not decompose if it was never cut down
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Has anyone tried to get their base usage down to as low as possible? I recently was away for 3 days and I took before and after readings and am using 1.76 kWh of electricity per day. That is just with the fridge, boiler electronics and burglar alarm panel switched on, everything else in the entire house off.
That is quite high.
In my new place I'll need a new fridge anyway so a new E rated fridge (D or E is about the best you can get for a reasonable outlay it seems), that will be about 0.6 kWh per day.
For stuff like TV standby, wifi etc, I am thinking of a solution whereby I can switch everything off at once on leaving the house, sort of like a smart plug or something.
Will still need to use gas for heating (will try cut the temperature though) and shower, cooking etc.
Is it possible to self wire one solar panel and small battery to a dedicated socket just to power the fridge?
That is quite high.
In my new place I'll need a new fridge anyway so a new E rated fridge (D or E is about the best you can get for a reasonable outlay it seems), that will be about 0.6 kWh per day.
For stuff like TV standby, wifi etc, I am thinking of a solution whereby I can switch everything off at once on leaving the house, sort of like a smart plug or something.
Will still need to use gas for heating (will try cut the temperature though) and shower, cooking etc.
Is it possible to self wire one solar panel and small battery to a dedicated socket just to power the fridge?
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Reduce usage yes makes sense, where you can.
Turning off stuff you're not using, not having lights left on etc.
But 1.76 kwh per day isn't really a lot, won't get much savings there.
Fridge/Freezer will be working harder than usual thanks to ambient temps at the moment, so also bear that in mind. In winter that will be less.
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On soon to be price caps its probably 88p a day just from using basically nothing.
Everything dies. On a geological scale, trees don't last much longer than humans, even if we leave them alone.From the Open University -Biofuels
This free course, Biofuels, investigates what is meant by a biofuel and covers the advantages of using biofuels compared with fossil fuels. The different types of biofuel are explored, with ...www.open.edu
The wood would not decompose if it was never cut down
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It's not nothing though, it's powering your fridge/freezer. I have the same issue, using a baseline of power for devices like this, but ultimately drop it into cost of doing business.
I need/want a running fridge/freezer unit so have to pay up.
My baseline power consumption with basic stuff running is 200w~ or 2.4kwh per day. That includes stuff like router, switches, standby devices.
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Average lifespan for a tree is anywhere from 100 to 600 years, I don't think we're even letting them grow half that before they're cut down to be burned
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not anymore. 90 days max stay in any 180 day period, so 3 months might just be out of scope, 4 months certainly not happening unless you have an Irish or other EU country passport.