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graham:
We have gas central heating and a log burner, would like to get one with a back boiler and have a duel system for heating and water.

The Jack Russell's luv the wood burner  :D

Jesska:
I posted other... we have blankets in our house as Ste is too tight to let me have CH on lol IF I'm allowed to have the heating on its a gas fire or GCH, but I'm one of those people who has a jumper on in summer so our gas bills are pretty extortionate (is that how you spell that???)  :roll:

BigSi:
What!!!!! Does nobody have geothermal heating!!!!  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Wireless:
We have a mix of gas central heating, and high pressure solar water heating.  At least the £4000 I spent on the system means we have the most efficient system you can buy.

I'd like to do much better, but finding and storing a supply of renewable fuel at a reasonable cost is virtually impossible in suburbia.

The cost vs return of installing a thermal heat pump is measured in tens of years, and basically runs on electricity which isn't environmentally friendly.

I've explored running diesel generators on vegetable oil, and intend to run my amateur radio hobby in the shed on wind and solar power, storing the excess power in batteries.

A shed is about as big as you'd want to set up, since the problem with wind generators is they have to be quite large, to cope with it being windy enough to generate sufficiently useful amounts of power only 30% off the time, and the problem of solar power is the cost of the panels and where the UK happens to be on the globe.

Saying that, I did consider moving to low voltage home lighting and using solar panels and batteries to store enough energy to get through the winter.

I was going to install a new gas fire in the front room, but I think I'll have an open wood fire instead, that way I can perhaps take the chill off late Autumn evenings without putting the central heating on until the weather turns much colder, and maybe switch it off earlier in the Spring.

The wife wants to move into the countryside, so perhaps more options for using renewable energy may be available.

Our gas and electricity bills have been very low since fitting the new boiler, the old one was 30 years old and very inefficient, and by investing in an LCD TV and LCD Computer Displays, together with low energy lighting, cavity wall insulation, and 10" of loft insulation.

So we're as low CO2 an emitter as current technology/cost benefit allows, and the V8 runs on LPG and saves 31% CO2 emissions, from observed fuel consumption and known CO2 emissions from internal combustion of Unleaded / LPG by volume.

richo:
I find a jumper is best as my nan made it from wool on her farm from her sheep.
What a carbon foot print hey.
Only trouble is i don't like the colour or patten on the jumper.

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