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Hi, I'm a new member of the Beyond Cheap Fuel Group. I'd like to be able to help out where I can. If you'd like to save 50% to 70% of your cooking fuel, help...
Hi, I am a new member of the Beyond Cheap Fuel Group. I have been using wind-power and energy-saving lightbulbs at home for the past 18 years and am a regular...
Hi, Does anyone else use windmill/aerogenerator power at home and have any problems with electronically-operated household appliances? My own local community...
Well, here's one idea. Let's forget about the whole electricity thing and stick big wind turbine blade set directly on the washing machine drum! But seriously...
I forgot to also mention in my previous message that the washing machine problem doesn't just occur when the power supply switches from windpower to deisel or...
Hi, Thanks for responding. Actually, householders here are already using inverters with battery back-ups (& have been for the past 25 years). Even with these...
Hi, I am a computer technician and I have a suggestion for the electronic equipment, computers, router, dvd players and the like. Plug them into a UPS...
Hi again. We've been using energy-saving lightbulbs at home for about 18 years - even during the days when these cost an arm and a leg to buy. Nowadays ...
... <rosemary.cottage@...> wrote: Hello from my first posting in this group. ... No. That got your attention, right? :-) The normal ordinary light bulb is good...
Hi Gerard, Thanks very much for your input. Do you have any more information about LED bulbs/lights that you can share with us here on the forum? For example,...
CAUTION - Thanks to Del for the link, but TAKE CARE, Rosemary, these are 120V (not UK 230V) types!! You CAN get 230V AC LED lamps now, from places like...
I use LED lights in my shop - they are GU10 spotlight fittings and are rated at 1.8W compared to 35W for the halogen equivalent. The other huge benefit is...
Hi All, I've got the scaffolding up for the second hot water heating solar panel on my roof, alas a dormer window means I have to put them seperate on the...
I think I'm just going to tie all the clothes together and dangle them in a stream. ....but seriously, an evaulation service to label electronics and ...
The frame to hold the solar collector tubes is in place and piped up. Next I need to connect the panel in to the water circuit. Then I can fit the tubes. Clive...
..and whilst I had the circulation pump switched off so I could connect up the pipes, the water in the first panel started to boil! - so as the pipes were...
I'm the lucky owner of one of these remarkable cars, and I'd strongly urge anyone interested in a new car to take a test drive. There is a display screen that...
We used to have a Prius (1st gen) at work. However, we're out in the country and fuel efficiency is pretty poor, apart from in an urban environment where...
Here's the thing I've never really "got" about the Prius. If the REAL GOAL was fuel efficiency, why not a DIESEL Prius? The answer, of course, is that Diesels...
It's back to the fact that the energy is not free, the battery power has to come from somewhere and that's the engine! Many thanks, Stuart. Self help? try :...
Hi Laurance, I drive a Prius and I would aggree with your desciption of the Prius as an electric assisted petrol car (I might even use that myself) but it is...
Hello Mark, I stand corrected and enlightened by your response. But I suppose the real problem in this country is that we all travel just TOO MUCH. We seem to...
Hi Guys I thought you might be interested in this link for the British entry to the Steam-powered top speed record. It seems to me that if steam engines could ...
