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The Energy Savings Trust has publishesd some startling figures in a report.that. it has just published. Stereos on standby in Britain cost 34.8million pounds. In energy costs annually and produce 192,000. tonnes of CO2.
We waste in Britain on standby devices enough electricity to power a city the size of Birmingham throughout the year–presumably without the Brummies having their standby devices on! There is clearly a need for a national debate, indeed an international one, on how we tackle some of these issues. Assuredly educational messages at school and elsewhere( on TV for exam.ple–not on standby) Should electrical appliances come with a statement of how much power they consume?-(his may prove useful for savings on power bills too.
St Francis of Assisi Primary School in the Notting Hill area of London shows what can be done…It is planning through generation of solar power at the school, not only to meet its own power needs, but also to sell power to the National Grid! The school’s biosphere was paid for by government grant– a good investment in my opinion.
