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Article #93Re: A simple, cost-free way to cut your annual household CO2 emissions by tonnes.
From: Fred
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:05
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:05
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"hot frog" <short@tension.span> wrote in message news:47b98ab7$0$8437$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > "John Henderson" <jhenRemoveThis@talk21.com> wrote in message > news:61reo2F20hosiU1@mid.individual.net... >> hot frog wrote: > > 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. > You say you're getting a 20% return on your solar wate heating? I'd like to see the figures. I played with some numbers, and doubt that I could achieve anything like that in my two-person household.
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