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"John Henderson" <jhenRemoveThis@talk21.com> wrote in message
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> hot frog wrote:
>
> > Here is a simple, cost-free method most households can use to
> > reduce their CO2 emissions, literally by tonnes.
> >
> > Step 1. Replace any incandescent light bulbs in your home,
> > that are left on for several hours a night, with compact
> > fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs).
> >
> > Step 2. Use the money you save on electricity to purchase
> > accredited green energy.
>
> That's excellent advice.  I replaced my household incandescent
> bulbs with CFLs back in the late 1980s, when they first came
> out (they were heavy, with iron-core electromagnetic ballasts
> back then).  One of those first CFCs (Philips SL13) is still in
> daily operation.
>
> About 15 years ago, I started having cold showers instead of
> warm (all year).  This saves water as well a truly enormous
> amount of energy/electricity/gas, as there's no incentive to
> linger too long.  And I've never been healthier - no infections
> requiring antibiotics since then.

Heating water certainly chews up a lot of energy, and is another area where
many people can make a big difference for little or no expense in the long
run. I've written several posts over the years on our solar hot water
system, which paid for itself in five years and has been saving us money
ever since. It has also reduced our carbon footprint by about 32 tonnes of
CO2.

> Transportation is another major energy consumer for most of us.
> http://envirofuel.com.au/ is a good site for information.

Thanks. Great site. Butanol from effluent streams looks very promising.
However, biodiesel from plantations developed at the expense of rainforest
could be worse than fossil fuels in terms of environmental damage.