Re: Bally Nonsense!

On Dec 18, 11:08 am, "BAC" <cassw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:11:35 +0000, Malcolm
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In article <qrgcm3dtl4prp20ulgmin7926ii8s6o...@xxxxxxx>,
amacmil...@xxxxxxx writes
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:13:53 +0000, Malcolm
<Malc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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If you would join the rest of us in using them (and conventional bulbs
are being phased out over the next 3-4 years) then Britain can build at
least one, possibly two, fewer nuclear power stations.

So you'd rather have wind turbines that kill birds.

Hopefully, turbines will be sited so as to minimise such fatalities. I think
such matters were considered in relation to a proposal on a certain offshore
island, anyway :-)

More to the point, if the energy used to power your light bulbs were
produced either by nuclear or wind power, it would not increase greenhouse
gas emissions one jot if all your lamps were 'incandescents'. In fact, if
you were to use incandescents, with their greater heat output, you would
probably use less gas central heating in the winter to maintain your house
at the same temperature, so using nuclear or wind powered electricity in
incandescent lamps would probably *reduce* your carbon footprint. You know
it makes sense! :-)

Exactly. Although I use electirc heating ovrnight in winter to back up
my daytime wood burner, France is mostly nuclear and wind anyway. In
winter the chandeliers holding incandescents get used, but in summer I
try to rely just on low energy bulbs, which also helps to avoid
unwanted heat indoors. A good plan that needs working up in Europe is
to get gas central heating systems converted to combined heat and
power. The electricity produced can then be used in a heat pump to
extract ambient temperature geothermal from the garden. In France one
is obliged to sell this electricity back to EDF, but the price they
pay is above the standard retail price.

Now if I could just fit a Stirling engine in my wood burner....
.

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