Originally posted by mlpriorWhat??? Didn't you get the reference? I'm disappointed. It's time to reacquaint yourself with the classics.
Yea, only I didn't think that was so LMAO funny, Mr. Morris!
Anyway, you are the one with toast on your avatar.
The duck is going to be now, night all.....
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(it wasn't a jab at you)
Originally posted by Bad wolfMore effectively, if all of us stopped playing games on-line it will save more electricities. Let's go to knock our next doors with a chessboard and pieces. Or maybe we could arrange more meet-ups locally (preferbly in cycling distances).
Okay, I've made this thread to encourage others and to get ideas from others on what we can do to tackle global warming.
In all seriousness I can't expect you to do anything substantial, nothing like buying a hybrid car or buying a wind turbine for your house (they are expensive!); but I am encouraging you to do a few easy things that take little effort ...[text shortened]... it has saved you so far.
It doesn't just help the environment; it makes economic sense.
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Tip 2 - Cavity wall insulation.
Up to 33% of all your heat in your home is lost through the walls; so insulating the walls of your home is an excellent way of saving you money and energy you would otherwise use.
By insulating your walls you can save yourself around £130 - £165 each year on fuel bills; as you can imagine this will add up to a lot money over several years.
There are many other benefits other than saving you money also:
1. It creates an even temperature in your home - as heat won't be lost from certain rooms faster than others.
2. It obviously reduced the amount of CO2 emissions you pump into the atmosphere.
2. It helps prevent condensation on walls and ceilings - this will have something to do with the way heat is transferred; as the walls and the gaps between them will have different temperature from the rooms in your house.
This one's a biggy:
3. It will reduce the amount of heat building up inside your home during summer hot spells, as well helping to keep the warmth better in your home during the colder winters.
This will become increasingly more important in the upcoming years: as Global warming will cause more seasonal fluctuations, meaning more heat waves during summer and cold waves during winter.
Older people and people with young children should definitely become more wary of this. People with certain illnesses like heart and lung diseases need to be ready also because they are also at a higher risk of dying in a heat wave as well.
Europe is not well prepared to cope with these unexpected heat and cold waves at all, as was demonstrated in 2003, when in western Europe alone, 35 000 excess deaths were reported as attributable to this 2003 heat-wave.
So keep this in mind when you consider how badly heat waves will become in the future.
Hell, I live in the north of England and I find these heat waves very uncomfortable, I really can't imagine what it is like if you live somewhere like in the Mediterranean.
More on the financial/installation side of this.
Installation of this insulation will cost around £260, so it will pay for itself after 2 years, and after that you will start saving a lot of money.
Installation will take between two to three hours for a three bedroom semi-detached house; and it is my understanding that they inject the insulation into the walls from the outside, so no mess will be made inside your home.
Take a look into this, see if your house can get cavity wall insulation, if it can I suggest you get it; it will save you money as well as benefit in the other ways I mentioned.
It not only helps the environment, it makes economic sense.
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Tip 3 - Energy saving white goods
Consumer electronic products are an important area to consider when saving energy; with UK households alone, spending around £2 billion a year on electricity to run them.
Consider this: nowadays electrical products always have an energy efficiency grade on their product (A*, A, B, etc); so if you were considering buying an electrical product you should keep this in mind.
Try to buy electrical goods with a Grade A* because this is the most efficient. It works like a sliding scale so the energy efficiency gets worse as you follow the alphabet.
(The manufacturers are actually required by law in the UK to grade like this)
By doing this you will save money, without comprimising performence, as the electrical good you are using will use less energy.
Fridges
Now think of this: Fridges, fridges are left on continually (or at least on standby at times like a T.V.); so obviously they use a lot of energy, so getting the most energy efficient one will save you fair bit of money long term, compared to a much less efficient one.
For fridges this scale is extended up to A++, so get this one to save the most money.
I would imagine the energy efficient fridges wouldn't cost too much more than the less efficient ones, so they would pay off this extra amount pretty quickly.
Of course for things like televisions and washing machines you should also keep this grading system in mind.
It doesn't just help the environment, it makes economic sense.