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Dave Fawthrop
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:29:10 +0000 (UTC), Chris Malcolm
<[email protected]> wrote:
|Dave Fawthrop <[email protected]> wrote:
|> On 24 Jan 2006 01:24:41 -0800, "Chris Gilbert" <[email protected]>
|> wrote:
|
|> |
|> |Simon Challands wrote:
|> |
|> |> Should think so too. No point in worrying about environmental damage
|> |> if the solutions to it make a mess of the few places worth still
|> |> keeping.
|> |
|> |I still think that there are things that I could do with my house that
|> |would not conflict with the status of the area. Solar tiles, for
|> |example,
|> |and carefully sighted solar water heating panels, not to mention
|> |ridge-line wind turbines. My house could be generating, admittedly
|> |low wattage, electricity all day while I'm at work and not using it
|> |myself.
|> |
|> |Of course retro-fitting it all to an older house is not
|> |straight-forward
|> |but I can't see why new builds don't incorporate it as a part of a
|> |standard design.
|
|> The pay back time is still too long :-(
|
|Too long compared to what?
The interest you are paying on the mortgage.
--
Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk>
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<[email protected]> wrote:
|Dave Fawthrop <[email protected]> wrote:
|> On 24 Jan 2006 01:24:41 -0800, "Chris Gilbert" <[email protected]>
|> wrote:
|
|> |
|> |Simon Challands wrote:
|> |
|> |> Should think so too. No point in worrying about environmental damage
|> |> if the solutions to it make a mess of the few places worth still
|> |> keeping.
|> |
|> |I still think that there are things that I could do with my house that
|> |would not conflict with the status of the area. Solar tiles, for
|> |example,
|> |and carefully sighted solar water heating panels, not to mention
|> |ridge-line wind turbines. My house could be generating, admittedly
|> |low wattage, electricity all day while I'm at work and not using it
|> |myself.
|> |
|> |Of course retro-fitting it all to an older house is not
|> |straight-forward
|> |but I can't see why new builds don't incorporate it as a part of a
|> |standard design.
|
|> The pay back time is still too long :-(
|
|Too long compared to what?
The interest you are paying on the mortgage.
--
Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk>
17,000 free e-books at Project Gutenberg! http://www.gutenberg.net
For Yorkshire Dialect go to www.hyphenologist.co.uk/songs/