Na guys forget the the burning at the stake afterall why add to the carbon debate and besides that the stench for the locals would be unbearable. I vote for a good hog tying, coated in honey then thrown onto a bull ant hill. With a smelly sock in the mouth it will be non too harsh on the ears too....

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The more efficient method would be to force him to run on a treadmill until he's on the verge of death from exhaustion, and then burn him on the stake, use the heat to boil water, and drive a turbine.

...and yet my idea still isn't as harsh as bryan's

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Hmmm. Perhaps we can be more innovative? What about building a great big reflector...

And "solar bake" him at the stake???

Poor colin55 has gone mysteriously quiet. Maybe he's gone to turn that TV off!

 

He probably hasnt worked out yet that he can use the same switch to turn it OFF as the one he turned it ON with.

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yea good idea

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I must admit I'm pretty impressed that his TV could even survive 10 years without ever being turned off. I shudder to think how many times over he's paid for the TV in electricity bill though.

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A number of years ago now, we had a rental customer with a B&W set who had never turned the TV off since she had it, she simply turned the volume and brightness right down

The set never broke down, but when she did call us out to it, the CRT was completely knackered!

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Sounds like an episode of mythbusters! Anyone seen the test of setting fire to distant ships using a giant array of mirrors?

Far too wasteful though! Just think of the length of time you could power your entire house in the time it'd take to burn someone to death with mirrors.

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hm yea scrap that not efficient enough !

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So many fine energy saving suggestions, yet nobody has mentioned how to save energy by running the PC in front of them more efficiently.

 

There are so many ways to conserve energy it's unbelievable. And most of them do not require any sacrifice of living comfort at all.

Use the microwave for as much of your cooking as you can.
Turn off the computer when you're not using it.
Put in a waste water heat exchanger to preheat hot water.
Put in double curtains for additional insulation for your windows.
etc, etc, etc.

Wake up at dawn so you get the maximum benefit from daylight. This one I love as everyone is always bitching about daylight savings. What do you think it's for?

Lights are the least of anyone's worries when it comes to household power consumption.

 

yes I'm running my C2Q 2.5 GHz processor at 1.6 GHz and at 1 V instead of 1.25 V and with it being colder now I'm thinking of reducing that, I have 8 GB of RAM which mean no page file required so less disk accesses, I though have a rather powerful PC (ahem 4 HDDs 3 of which in raid0) but run it quite efficiently and still have lots of performance, another example is I have the one program that constantly access the HDD installed on the single drive rather than the raid, (this also increases system performance).

another thing is driving, how do you drive ? I roll quite often, my Mondeo will roll in town at 25-30 mph on an almost flat ! I certainly make use of this

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I have a 1800 square foot house and live by myself. The lowest monthly electricity usage I've gotten down to is 389 KWh last summer. All summer it was right around 400 KWh. I was pretty proud of that.

Driving is another good one too. Fortunately, my house is right next to a shopping area that has almost any store I could need, including a Home Depot. I only drive to work and back; a total of 7.6 miles round trip. I fill up my 1988 Ford Ranger once a month. I feel fairly good about that too.

Always competing with myself to see if I can lower the usage even more. This winter I have a new hot water heating system, and almost enough firewood to last all winter. Should be interesting to see what my electricity usage is.

 

Smanches, I'm in the same boat as you. It always seems such a waste to try to control my whole house, while I use just a portion of it. And so I use space heaters, or just try to dress for the climate. My friends always complain about the interior temperatures. I think they whimped theirselves out by never adapting to the seasons. The other advantage I have is living in a very temperate region, so I don't have to heat or cool much.

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when I lived on my own I kept the heating off until right into the winter, my PC was enough to warm my room, as it is I keep my radiator off and let the pc warm the room, I do have 40 W of solar power and that will run my pc monitor most of the time if we get some sun, naturally the inverter is here on my desk (battery is in the loft above my room) so the 10 % of heat it losses converting 12 v to 240 again goes to heat my room.

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