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The Off Button(02/02/2010)
Many people fail to realize that most of the problems with energy efficiency aren’t with the appliances themselves, it is with the way we use them. A TV isn’t going to be particularly wasteful, hundreds of thousands of pounds go into developing them to be the very opposite, but if we leave it on all day when we aren’t even using it certainly will be. It is time to start turning stuff off. Another important thing to note is that this doesn’t ju... [more]
Energy Efficiency(02/02/2010)
Energy bills cost a huge amount of money nowadays, and in these troubled times any money that is being unnecessarily spent is money that needs to be saved. There are hundreds of ways of trying to cut down your energy bills ranging from seriously drastic measures to the more mundane. A good place to start is with energy efficient lighting. In most homes, lighting accounts for 10 to 15% of the electricity bill. You can use things called smart m... [more]
ADEY commissions testing station to air test MagnaClean magnetic and non-magnetic filters(16/12/2009)
ADEY Professional Heating Solutions has unveiled a £40,000 product testing station at its South Wales assembly facility. The specially commissioned testing station is designed to air test ADEY’s MagnaClean magnetic and non-magnetic filters, the Professional 22 and 28mm units in addition to the company’s TwinTech filter. The new test rig air pressure tests each MagnaClean up to 2 bar, nearly twice that encountered within an average domestic cen... [more]
Drop in Carbon Monoxide poisoning fatalities is due to the introduction of nationwide measures(20/11/2009)
The Corgi Trust, in the 12th annual benchmarking report, reveals that fatalities caused by Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning linked to domestic appliances such as boilers, cookers, room heaters and warm air heaters in Great Britain have dropped by more than 50% over the last decade from a high of 24 to 9. The report, compiled from information supplied via Downstream Incident Data Report (DIDR) forms completed and submitted by investigators at Bri... [more]
Scottish and Southern Energy cutting prices will reduce fuel poverty(19/02/2009)
SSE, which supplies energy as Southern Electric, SWALEC, Scottish Hydro Electric and Atlantic, is going to follow in the footsteps of British Gas who announced their price reductions at the end of January 2009. Following the price changes of 4% on Gas and 9% on electricity, SSE’s ‘dual fuel’ customers will typically see a reduction of £66 from their annual bills. Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) has welcomed the recent news th... [more]
750,000 households will not turn on their heating this winter to cut heating costs(26/11/2008)
According to new research from moneysupermarket.com, Brits face a bitterly cold winter as they take drastic action to combat rising fuel bills by refusing to turn their heating on. Almost 90 per cent of those polled are planning cost cutting measures to tackle sky high energy bills this winter. While a quarter (25 per cent) plan to turn their heating on less often, over three quarters of a million of us won’t turn the heating on at all. Oth... [more]
Hydropath HS38 water conditioning system prevents limescale problems without the use of chemicals(25/11/2008)
Hydropath's HS38 domestic unit provides a simple and cost effective solution to preventing limescale problems without the use of chemicals. The HS38 water conditioning system by Hydropath removes limescale by transmitting randomly varying electric fields into the water and the entire plumbing system. The result is the production of nuclei everywhere in the water system. This causes limescale to form in suspension, which is then washed away... [more]
TwinTech non-magnetic filtration provides long-term solution for boiler protection(24/11/2008)
ADEY Professional Heating Solutions has extended its product range with the addition of MagnaClean TwinTech, the company’s first dual-action magnetic and non-magnetic filter. MagnaClean TwinTech has been introduced to further strengthen ADEY’s product offering to the professional heating sector, which already includes MagnaClean Professional filters used for the maintenance and protection of domestic central heating systems. MagnaClean Twin... [more]
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