Earth Notes: Saving The Planet @Home

Site updated 2024-11-07 09:15 GMT.
Be a climate hero, starting with your home!

Want to do your bit at home to improve your quality of life, save money, cut down on waste and carbon pollution, and get the planet back how it used to be?

Did you know that the majority of your neighbours are undertaking energy saving actions every day? That is also one of the most powerful messages to encourage people to save.

This site is mainly about the practical steps that I have taken to make my own life (and that of my family) a little better and lower-carbon. Many of them are actions that you could take too...

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Featured: 10 Years at Home with GSHP, Western France: Case Study (microgen research review)

Learn from a home ground-source heat-pump experience in France. #GSHP #heatpump

We have to install millions of heat pumps across Europe to meet climate targets, some of them GSHPs for even higher efficiency than ASHPs. What are they like to live with in reality? This decade-long case study from a home in France gives an idea, and reveals a CoP of over 400%!

Random: PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024) (research tech)

An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

At 16WW over 14 days from 2024-10-21 to 2024-11-04: electricity imports 5.9kWh/d (net 5.8kWh/d), gas consumption 0.2kWh/d.
At 16WW over 369 days from 2023-11-01 to 2024-11-04: electricity imports 4.4kWh/d (net 0.7kWh/d), gas consumption 2.9kWh/d.
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LIVE LIVE GB Grid Carbon Intensity (mobile), live grid-tie PV generation and off-grid PV electrical system stats, heat battery top-up control.

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Yearly Electricity and Gas (ie heat and light) Carbon Footprint

Things That We've Done

We've crunched our carbon footprint. We've become a SuperHome. We've pondered other changes that we might make. But most of all there's been quite a lot of fun learning. Maybe it is my engineering mindset, but I have made a hobby out of conservation and meter watching. I have had fun out of 'tuning' life a little. The rest of my family humours me!

See a full list of articles under search at the top of the page, and here's some actions to start with that we took...

Things That You Can Do

Effective changes that can be made at home are based on lowering energy/resource demand...

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