There's much talk of looming energy problems - it's a staple of Nick Drew's blogging and even The Economist has now turned its attention to it. Today I see Brian Gongol has netted a story about battery development and how it could support the energy infrastructure.
But how much could we still do in the way of more efficient use, and non-use, of energy? According to this DTI report based on 2001 stats, the home uses 31% of the nation's energy (see Chart 1.3 on page 9). Chart 1.6 shows that in 2000, space heating accounted for 40% of all non-transport energy consumption.
More woolly pullies?
7 comments:
Stay home in bed, under the duvet? More sex to warm the body?
Great ideas, keep 'em coming.
I can only hope that controlled fusion is possible, and that we crack the problem soon.
Ban central heating - in our climate it's just for cissies anyway.
I remember those days - a coal fire in the living room, so that my front was hot, and my back cold. The bad thing is that those fires are horribly inefficient.
"the home uses 31% of the nation's energy"
And this is a bad thing?
People live in houses; they need to cook and keep warm. Isn't that pretty much the whole idea of life?
Anon, yes - but we could accomplish some of these things much more efficiently. They way we use ienergy in the UK makes us a hostage to Putin and others.
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