[BNM] [OT] Ecotricity

[Antony Jones]

Yep,

Also, All devices on standby are using power.

In other news, Robert Dyas are doing a pack of 3x Energy saving 100w bulbs for £2.99
60w are even cheaper.

Antony Jones
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Russell [mailto:joshbnm at gmail.com]
> Sent: 12 April 2006 13:19
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] [OT] Ecotricity
> 
> easy to switch too.....
> 
> 
> they are the only green energy provider that actually owns their own
> windfarms (i believe) rather than just buying energy from other
> windfarms or investing in windfarms.
> 
> if you get your gas from them they use the profits from that for more
> windfarms too..
> 
> 
> true about the phone chargers (well, all chargers really), that really
> does suck. you can tell what is using power even though you don't have
> anything being charged by just touching the charger. usually they
> still give off heat.
> 
> 
> doh!
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/12/06, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well that was easy http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/
> >
> >
> > and hopefully more effective than writing to my MP who has never
> > rebelled against the neo-thatcherites - not even once.
> >
> >
> > Something I don't get entirely though - if unplugging all the idle phone
> > battery chargers in the country saves about as much as one nuke station
> > makes, why don't they just make battery chargers that stop drawing
> > current when... err... no current is being drawn?
> >
> > It's been a while since I did any electronics. Can't be that difficult
> > though. It's all wires and things isn't it? Diodes and so on.
> >
> > Reverse avalaunce breakdown diodes. That's what you'd need. Probably.
> >
> >
> > n
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