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Nick Hartley replied to Tom Wright's discussion Happy New Year - How Much Energy Are You Using In the Home?? in the group Buildings and Energy Group
"Thanks Tom
The car takes between 500 & 750 units a year, but yes, I agree it shouldn't be included.
I think other members of my household aren't quite so keen on my energy saving regime, as it involves
getting in the habit of…"
Nick Hartley replied to Tom Wright's discussion Happy New Year - How Much Energy Are You Using In the Home?? in the group Buildings and Energy Group
"Hi Tom, Off the top of my head, our energy figures were 28,000 kWh gas in our first year here (1992), electricity about 1000 kWh. (not sure why so low! but I was keen on CF bulbs even then). We've gradually reduced this over the years to 15,000…"
Nick Hartley commented on Molly Fletcher's blog post air powered car
"Sounds to good to be true! I was aware of some development work in France on compressed air powered vehicles, but this beats all. At the moment though I'm heavily committed to electric cars,
having two: a Citroen C1 E'VIE range…"
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G-wiz for sale
G-wiz for sale. 5 years old. 12,500 miles. New batteries at 9900 miles. One owner. £ 2900 ono. (as you all know, electric cars pay no road tax or congestion charge and are cheap to run - 4p/mile)Contact Nick Hartley 8969 9030See More
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G-wiz for sale
G-wiz for sale. 5 years old. 12,500 miles. New batteries at 9900 miles. One owner. £ 2900 ono. (as you all know, electric cars pay no road tax or congestion charge and are cheap to run - 4p/mile)Contact Nick Hartley 8969 9030See More
Paul Mitchell-Gears left a comment for Nick Hartley
"I thought it might appeal to your inner engineer :). I of course would love you to do it as I could find out if it is practicable at no risk to myself :D. If you decide to give it a go let me know as I'd be more than happy to help out with the…"
Nick Hartley left a comment for Paul Mitchell-Gears
"Paul - many thanks for the EV car link. I'm very attracted to the idea of buying a kit from them and doing it myself, though my partner Diana won't be impressed! Too many projects already. Nick H."
Nick Hartley commented on Tim Starley-Grainger's event 'Queen's Park Energy Futures'
"Would love to attend, but business takes me to Dublin at that time."
Nick Hartley commented on Chris Wells's photo
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"I think this one has the most impact and includes the most meaning (the head hands & heart and the two Ks)"
Simon Walton left a comment for Nick Hartley
"I now have an OWL borrowed from Queens Park Library (the Westminster one on Harrow Road) for three weeks, though they said that they would not hassle me to get it back, which sounded a litle strange.
We shall see how I get on with it."
Nick Hartley left a comment for Simon Walton
"Glad to hear it was useful! George said there were 10 OWLs available to borrow from the Transition group, so shouldn't be hard to get hold of one. I lent mine to David Till. Your questions had me thinking! We all have a long way to go to get to…"
Simon Walton left a comment for Nick Hartley
"Nick
Thank you very much for your energy and water saving event.
It was incredibly useful and I hope to be able to borrow a similar electric meter about which I would not have known without the meeting.
Simon Walton"
I live in Hopefield Avenue with my family and have been attempting to reduce our domestic carbon footprint as much as possible over the years. This includes the obvious things like loft insulation, draught-proofing, secondary double-glazing (with heat reflecting glass), efficient condensing boiler, low energy light bulbs throughout and less obvious things like individual programmers on radiators so as not to heat rooms when noone's there, and a clean-burning wood stove. This year, hopefully, having been granted planning permission, I'll be installing a solar water heater of 3.3 square meters promising around 4000 units of hot water per annum. Other, only partly successful, projects so far have been rainwater collection and use for washing, and greywater recycling for flushing toilets.
Transport-wise, we joined the Streetcar club 4 years ago and also acquired a G-wiz electric car which gets us around London once or twice a week. Getting used to the limited range (40 miles) and remembering to charge the batteries takes a change of mindset, but you get used to it!
I'd be happy to discuss with or show any of you Transition folk these projects.
Transport-wise, we joined the Streetcar club 4 years ago and also acquired a G-wiz electric car which gets us around London once or twice a week. Getting used to the limited range (40 miles) and remembering to charge the batteries takes a change of mindset, but you get used to it!
I'd be happy to discuss with or show any of you Transition folk these projects.
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G-wiz for sale
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G-wiz for sale. 5 years old. 12,500 miles. New batteries at 9900 miles. One owner. £ 2900 ono. (as you all know, electric cars pay no road tax or congestion charge and are cheap to run - 4p/mile)Contact Nick Hartley 8969… Continue
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- At 18:04 on October 11, 2010,
Paul Mitchell-Gears said… - I thought it might appeal to your inner engineer :). I of course would love you to do it as I could find out if it is practicable at no risk to myself :D. If you decide to give it a go let me know as I'd be more than happy to help out with the project. Unfortunately my brother the RAC man lives in Croydon not locally :(.
- At 21:46 on June 23, 2010,
Simon Walton said… - I now have an OWL borrowed from Queens Park Library (the Westminster one on Harrow Road) for three weeks, though they said that they would not hassle me to get it back, which sounded a litle strange.
We shall see how I get on with it.
- At 17:57 on June 20, 2010, Simon Walton said…
- Nick
Thank you very much for your energy and water saving event.
It was incredibly useful and I hope to be able to borrow a similar electric meter about which I would not have known without the meeting.
Simon Walton
- At 9:43 on May 4, 2010,
George Latham said… - Thanks for your message Nick... Sounds great to do a session on all the lifestyle changes/choices that you have made. Do you think that it would be best to do it as an open day/evening at your house so that you can show people round? Or else we could get you to do a talk at another transition event -such as one of the film nights, or we are hoping to have a local architect do a presentation on urban sustainable design soon? Maybe best to do it at your house if you are happy to have people round and then you would be able to show people as well as tell... then we need to think about whether to do it as a daytime event on a weekend or a weekday evening event... do call me to discuss anytime on 07957655750. Also we can think about whether to promote just to KtoK or to a wider transition London audience... Regards George
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