On Sep 3, 8:21Â am, Doug
riseup.net> wrote:> On 3 Sep, 07:43, Tony Dragon
btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> Doug wrote:
>>> Told you so! If you think you can offset your wasteful and harmful car
>>> use by sticking up solar panels, wind generators, planting trees and
>>> carbon trading then think again. Just take your foot off the metal and
>>> keep it off.
>
>>> "Solar panels are one of the least cost-effective ways of combating
>>> climate change and will take 100 years to pay back their installation
>>> costs, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) warned
>>> yesterday..."
>
>>> "...Solar panels for heating and power and wind turbines generating
>>> between 3kW and 5kW merited two stars. Smaller 1.5kW turbines of the
>>> type installed on roofs paid back in 25 years, received a three-star
>>> rating.
>
>>> By contrast, cavity wall insulation had a five-star rating: spending
>>> £440 would save £145 a year in fuel bills, paying back in three years,
>>> while an investment of £325 in extra loft insulation would save £60
>>> annually, paying back in five years..."
>
>>> More:
>
>
>
>> So far I had not considered solar heating & wind generation as a means
>> of transport, could you advise me on the procedure.
>> Unfortunately my car does not have cavity walls, so that would be of no
>> use.
>
> Some of the motorists who dominate this transport newsgroup, such as
> Filth for example, try to claim they are offsetting their massive
> carbon release from their cars by erecting solar panels, burning wood,
> planting trees, or by paying carbon traders, etc, and they fondly
> imagine this makes them somehow carbon neutral, which is utter
> nonsense.
>
says the man who claims to be environmentally friendly by destroying
the rainforest...
Fod
