Our old kettle packed up last week and we’ve got ourselves a new kettle. The marvellous Eco Kettle.
It is estimated that on average we boil twice as much water as we need when we’re making ourselves a cup of tea. That means 3kW (energy needed to light 50 lightbulbs) ever time you boil it.
The Eco Kettle has an internal reservoir that holds 1.5 litres of water ready for use, and a measuring button to allow only the right number of cups of water to be released into the boiling chamber. No more waste!
You can get the Eco Kettle from Nigel’s EcoStore for £39.95 with FREE P&P.
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Caught the Dragon’s Den on BBC2 last night. For those of you that don’t know, this is a programme where potential entrepreneurs set themselves up for a fall. The idea of the programme is that there are 5 dragons (sucessful business people) prepared to offer up to £100K to businesses they feel have potential, for a share of the company. Last night’s show featured a guy who had developed a gadget which was easily fitted to a flush toilet and which limited the flow of water, thus saving gallons! A remarkably simple invention which worked and which could have a huge impact the world over. Were the Dragons interested? Not a chance, they took the opportunity to belittle the inventor for caring more about the planet than wanting to make money. Each to their own I guess, but until the day that big business wakes up to the fact that economies will continue to become more unstable until the sustainability issue is grasped and addressed the world will continue in the reverse gear of exploitation of peoples and landscapes unable to protect themselves. Which leads us into the ‘news’ that US and UK firms are projected to make £98 billion from Iraqi oil fields. Makes you proud don’t it!
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I feel very uncomfortable with our generation leaving tons of dangerous waste products for our children’s generation to deal with because we didn’t have the imagination to look to renewable sources of energy now?
Tony Blair’s blinkered view that nuclear power generation does not produce carbon emissions is nothing more than wishful thinking, and has been shown to be inaccurate by the Oko Institut whose tests on the life-cycle of nuclear fuel have proved that including the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle, i.e. the mining of uranium, ore milling, conversion, fuel enrichment and fabrication of fuel rods, the CO2 emissions of nuclear power are four or five times more than those from renewables. (Source: The Guardian)
Add that to the clear problems of nuclear waste management, the risk that nuclear power-stations may become terrorist targets, the “unexplained” leukaemia clusters in the vicinities of nuclear power plants and the fact that uranium is not a renewable resource and it all looks downright grim!
At this time when Mr Blair has it in his head to win hearts and minds over to his nuclear nirvana, it’s more important than ever to take a stand for the sake of future generations and say No to Nuclear! Tell your MP that you don’t want nuclear power and that you back renewables.
The UK has vast potential for renewables - around nine times more that we need in wind power alone. (Source: Greenpeace) Show your support for clean renewable energy and change your energy supplier.
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