Maybe the "energy" solution isn't "Big"


	Maybe the "energy" solution isn't "Big"

zbeechclip

2-13-2008 5:39 PM

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environment, economy, energy

zbeechclip says:

What if we could energize our societies without having to depend on large, usually corporate, centrally run and controlled energy production?

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EfficienCity</A> is a virtual town, but pioneering, real world communities around the UK are using similar systems. As a result, they're enjoying lower greenhouse gas emissions, a more secure energy
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What is decentralised energy? Well, it's pretty much the opposite of our present, outrageously inefficient
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radiators on the outside of your house instead of inside it; we're
burning one lot of fossil fuels for electricity, and another lot for heat, but
waste heat is a by-product of electricity generation. Can't we just burn one
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