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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Yesterday while e-bicycling [Sunday the safest, near roads-desolated day of the week], uphill [brilliant invention for this hilly region], we saw the second business where the car park had roofs consisting of solar power panels over a 40 meter stretch [45 yards], 4 meters deep [we drive smaller cars, shoehorn required mounting size] and docking stations to charge the eco-car, or bike [gasoline cars not allowed to use these spots... some onederful idea]. Carbon low/zero footprint is expanding here. This was out in the country, near an access road to Cepagatti ["Pay the cats here" the free translation of the village name ;o). When there is no car to charge, the power is used by the business... open from 09am to 08pm.
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gordoma
Veteran Cruncher Windsor, UK Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Post Count: 729 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We are having a new office built by a Passive House specialist, looking into some of the key benefits of ecological design principles... including things like a lift that uses a KERS systems similar to the one used F1 cars to gather the Kinetic energy from the decent to help power the assent - only requires single-phase power too.
----------------------------------------Makes me very proud! (personally, I've started cycling to work - principally for the health benefits but the environmental and financial benefits are a great addition) |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just changed out the 50W Spots in the Living Room, Kitchen and Bathroom for the LED equivalent from LEDhut
----------------------------------------450W/h just became 36W/h without any less light. They will last practically forever, so no additional landfill, are just as bright and at UK electricity rates they will pay for themselves within the next 6 months of dark UK nights. 12.5 hours of light for the price of 1 That's progress  Dave  [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Sep 14, 2012 1:00:48 PM] |
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gordoma
Veteran Cruncher Windsor, UK Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Post Count: 729 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My council has just introduced a Food Waste Recycling Programme:
----------------------------------------How is my food waste recycled? I don't have a large enough garden to make it worth doing my own composting, so this is a good step for me.... I now have 4 bins:Once your food has been collected it is taken away to a new composting digestion plant being built in Oxfordshire and turned into fertiliser for local farms and renewable energy for the local area. Through this process your food goes towards creating enough electricity to power 4,200 homes and saves just over 10,000 tonnes of carbon per year. Food: Virtually any food waste Garden: grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, twigs, weeds, fallen leaves, flowers that my wife regularly kills Recycling: Tins, cans and aerosols; Glass bottles and jars - all colours; Plastic bottles, plastic pots, plastic tubs, plastic trays; Paper and cardboard; Tetra Pak liquid, food and drinks cartons Other Waste (Rarely has much in it these days) |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Yesterday we e-biked ** all the way out to the grand IperMercato [Hypermarket] to find it closed till 14:00 (Monday), because they had been open all day for the shopping Sunday. We took panino in the opposite lunchbar before returning and noticed this digital panel over the Iper entrance (next time will take a picture, for an update):
Solar Panel Roofpark: 365 Kwh (momentary output... on November 26). Days of operation: 36543 (10 years) Total KWH produced: 1,265,234 As we sat there and the clouds moved in and out, you could see the counter trickle forward, go faster, go slower. Thumbs up to the Iper Mercato, claiming this services 30% of their energy needs. ** The e-bike distance counter is now on 1150 miles (1700km) and the Kwh in charging the battery stands at 6.7Kwh so far. Not bad for a little caloric burning, improved health, a BMI in that save zone of > 18.5 and < 25 and saving of 150 liters of gasoline (over 300 Euro at present pricing). The 6.7 Kwh cost less than 1 Euro as taken from the public grid [100% Green Energy contract... i.e. solar/wind generated]. Maximum altitude change per the GPS was 272 meters on the route, all sans fossil fuel burning. P.S. You do know that fossil fuel burning goes by the equation 1 liter of fuel is 2.3 kg of CO2, of which our planet is only able to take up ~50% and falling... something to do with ocean surface saturation [and acidification]. |
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johncmacalister2010@gmail.com
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 16, 2010 Post Count: 799 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My council has just introduced a Food Waste Recycling Programme: How is my food waste recycled? I don't have a large enough garden to make it worth doing my own composting, so this is a good step for me.... I now have 4 bins:Once your food has been collected it is taken away to a new composting digestion plant being built in Oxfordshire and turned into fertiliser for local farms and renewable energy for the local area. Through this process your food goes towards creating enough electricity to power 4,200 homes and saves just over 10,000 tonnes of carbon per year. Food: Virtually any food waste Garden: grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, twigs, weeds, fallen leaves, flowers that my wife regularly kills Recycling: Tins, cans and aerosols; Glass bottles and jars - all colours; Plastic bottles, plastic pots, plastic tubs, plastic trays; Paper and cardboard; Tetra Pak liquid, food and drinks cartons Other Waste (Rarely has much in it these days) We have been doing all this for >10 years. Only difference is that I join my wife in killing the plants.... And, I walk a lot. BTW, my two newest PCs (AMD A8 and A10) are real energy sippers. However, I would like to find cost effective solar panels, somewhere. As November has been quite sunny, we have not yet turned on our furnace even with -4C nights. Happy crunching and walking, everyone!  crunching, crunching, crunching. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro (part time)  |
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