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Coal comfort

If we did not waste so much energy, the problems would be much less. Take street lighting as an example. Many have 250W lamps, running around 4000hours/year. Doing the sums on coal power station electricity production gives you around 375Kg of coal (800Kg CO2 + other pollutants) per lamp, per year. Try counting lamp posts as you drive home tonight! Then imagine 7.5 large bags of coal heaped around every post. Getting rid of surplus lamps, dimming, and turning some off in the early hours would give fantastic cost & CO2 savings. This is an easy immediate saving. The only effort is to go out and look to identify where savings can be made. But that seems to be too easy for most councils to consider.

16 Apr 2009

9:31 am