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Energy use drops 11% as bills rise by 23% - mikebratcher69 - 29 March 2012
Well, it looks like it wont be long before gas and leccy is out of reach for most of us, so...
time to start investigating alternative energy sources if you arent already..
I'm guilty of not doing much above thinking about it yet....
1) what sort of energy supply are you considering?
I.E. do you want leccy and gas? or just leccy.
Solar?
Wind? (plenty of that in our house!!!!)
Hydro?
will a sealed cess pit for sewage in your garden provide methane gas for cooking? anybody know??
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121933/Energy-use-drops-11-households-cut--bills-rise-23.html
RE: Energy use drops 11% as bills rise by 23% - Skean Dhude - 29 March 2012
Everyone is looking at two ways for resolving this;
Solar either for heating the house and water and removing that usage or as a means of generating power.
Wood burning for removing the heat and cooking requirements.
RE: Energy use drops 11% as bills rise by 23% - Kenneth Eames - 1 April 2012
Methane gas is a good way and modern gas stoves are able to burn it. Plenty of info on the web. Do a search. Kenneth Eames.
RE: Energy use drops 11% as bills rise by 23% - mikebratcher69 - 1 April 2012
Thanks Kenneth, nichto here from you again.
RE: Energy use drops 11% as bills rise by 23% - Scythe13 - 1 April 2012
I'm going the solar route.
Got 2 small chargers for my phones. Next up will be laptop chargers. I'm planning to run a system like WnC's but house it and be able to run that for a good few months. Then I want to be able to set something like that up on the roof to run a projector and my laptop.
RE: Energy use drops 11% as bills rise by 23% - Kenneth Eames - 1 April 2012
Thanks for your welcome mike, much appreciated. Kenneth Eames.