gilmores
net co2 'taker-outers' while living a simple, inspiring & luxurious life
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results for 2014 (& next game we're playing) in short 3 minute video:
solar panels generated 5854 kw/h from jan 1st 2014 to 31st december 2014.
revenue from them was approx. £2,600 for the year.
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solar thermal payment through the renewable heat incentive scheme finally arrived this year. it is set at just over £200 p.a. for 7 years.
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surprisingly, electricity use goes DOWN with arrival of 2nd electric car!! due to tesla charging being free all over the place and because we have the model s we can schedule better when we charge the leaf so almost all of its charging is done from solar. wonderful.
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did our final 886 petrol miles in the prius this year. haven't been at a petrol station since april. covered 12385 electric miles this year, 8059 of those in the tesla in 6 months. all free.
co2: MINUS 11.534 tonnes co2 as a family & business combined (MINUS 3.845t co2 per person)
brian & amy have offset their lifetime emissions previously with carbonneutral.com and climatecare.org
we still export our electricity to ecotricity and use their renewable electricity product and green gas product.
water: 52.61 cu. m as a family & business (48.05 litres per person per day)
brian also 'offset' his lifetime water usage with water aid after investigating cost of projects at 'drop 4 drop' website.
landfill: 24.10 kg as a family & business (8.03 kg per person)