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Hi, I just found this while looking for something else.
http://www.telegraph...en-windows.html
Why do we have to pay for office bods in London to keep cool & not have noise? We get the A17 & probably the turbines, disruption, noise & ruined landscape to meet their targets too.
Kris
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What an example gov dept wasting energy
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Posted 08 September 2009 - 11:38 AM
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Posted 08 September 2009 - 02:24 PM
Plans to switch off the air-conditioning and instead open windows at the Department for Energy and Climate Change have been scrapped after staff complained about the noise - read that with amusement, but here's a thought....
If the Government wanted to encourage energy saving on a national level, then why not supply or at least subsidise electricity monitors to all households? I have one of these units in my home, and believe me nothing focuses the mind more when you see real time electricity consumption displayed in terms of cost per hour, it's truly enlightening
Of course this only works for people who are serious about saving energy, carbon emissions and money, but considering the enormous public subsidies available for the construction of windfarms, I wonder why a scheme such as this was not introduced years ago?
FenMan
If the Government wanted to encourage energy saving on a national level, then why not supply or at least subsidise electricity monitors to all households? I have one of these units in my home, and believe me nothing focuses the mind more when you see real time electricity consumption displayed in terms of cost per hour, it's truly enlightening
Of course this only works for people who are serious about saving energy, carbon emissions and money, but considering the enormous public subsidies available for the construction of windfarms, I wonder why a scheme such as this was not introduced years ago?
FenMan
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Posted 09 September 2009 - 02:42 PM
FenMan, on 08 September 2009 - 03:24 PM, said:
Plans to switch off the air-conditioning and instead open windows at the Department for Energy and Climate Change have been scrapped after staff complained about the noise - read that with amusement, but here's a thought....
If the Government wanted to encourage energy saving on a national level, then why not supply or at least subsidise electricity monitors to all households? I have one of these units in my home, and believe me nothing focuses the mind more when you see real time electricity consumption displayed in terms of cost per hour, it's truly enlightening
Of course this only works for people who are serious about saving energy, carbon emissions and money, but considering the enormous public subsidies available for the construction of windfarms, I wonder why a scheme such as this was not introduced years ago?
FenMan
If the Government wanted to encourage energy saving on a national level, then why not supply or at least subsidise electricity monitors to all households? I have one of these units in my home, and believe me nothing focuses the mind more when you see real time electricity consumption displayed in terms of cost per hour, it's truly enlightening
Of course this only works for people who are serious about saving energy, carbon emissions and money, but considering the enormous public subsidies available for the construction of windfarms, I wonder why a scheme such as this was not introduced years ago?
FenMan
I've made the same suggestion myself in a number of meetings with 'relevant companies' but no-one seems to want to take it on. As a govenment initiative it seems a win win situation. There must be a hidden interest somewhere in the system.
JonF
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