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Ed Milliband and Hazel Blears visit Southampton's geothermal energy scheme
1:38pm Monday 23rd February 2009
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- By Peter Law » Feature Writer
ENERGY Secretary Ed Miliband and Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today unveiled a carbon calculator showing how many tonnes of carbon dioxide Southampton's ground breaking district energy scheme has saved since 1986.
The calculator, which will update every 20 minutes, shows that the scheme has slashed the city's carbon footprint by 112,538 tonnes in the 23 years it has been running.
The station, based between WestQuay shopping centre and West Quay Retail Park, produces energy from combined heat and power generators, bio-mass boilers and a geothermal well.
Mr Miliband said Southampton had been a trailblazer and called on other cities across Britain to develop their own district energy schemes.
“Hazel Blears and I are here because we want to see what is being not only want is being done on geothermal, but combined heat and power.
“What is remarkable about this scheme, which has been going since 1986, is the way it has not only signed residents, but also the public sector and the private sector who are seeing the benefits to them and the environment of combined heat and power.
“Southampton is leading Britain and leading parts of the world and we would like to see how we can have more of this.”
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RJG, Bitterne Park says...
2:51pm Mon 23 Feb 09
hulla baloo wrote:Incidentally, all the ministerial cars are hybrids now.
Are these the same ministers that created a good impression by travelling down by train, only to have their cars follow on behind to meet them?
Total hypocrites, all of them.
hulla baloo, Turkey says...
3:53pm Mon 23 Feb 09
RJG wrote:Can you prove that,as I beg to differ.
hulla baloo wrote: Are these the same ministers that created a good impression by travelling down by train, only to have their cars follow on behind to meet them? Total hypocrites, all of them.Incidentally, all the ministerial cars are hybrids now.
10 Minute Man, Bitterne says...
4:04pm Mon 23 Feb 09
btw Blears looks a bit lizardy today, perhaps Icke is right.
Miles Sway, Scotland says...
4:18pm Mon 23 Feb 09
Someone please correct my figures - I can't believe they're right.
obelisker, Southampton says...
4:35pm Mon 23 Feb 09
10 Minute Man wrote:You are so right, Hazel Blears makes my skin crawl, is it the pasty white complexion? the ginger hair? or that tight-lipped mean face, perhaps it's a combination of them all...there's your Hybrid!
Its a meaningless figure, there's no context. For example, how many coal fired power stations does this replace? What's the output of carbon per kWH etc ?
btw Blears looks a bit lizardy today, perhaps Icke is right.
hulla baloo, Turkey says...
4:38pm Mon 23 Feb 09
obelisker wrote:LOL
10 Minute Man wrote: Its a meaningless figure, there's no context. For example, how many coal fired power stations does this replace? What's the output of carbon per kWH etc ? btw Blears looks a bit lizardy today, perhaps Icke is right.You are so right, Hazel Blears makes my skin crawl, is it the pasty white complexion? the ginger hair? or that tight-lipped mean face, perhaps it's a combination of them all...there's your Hybrid!
10 Minute Man, Bitterne says...
4:42pm Mon 23 Feb 09
112538/240= offsetting the carbon of 468 houses every year since it started.
I wonder how much co2 was produced in creation of the facility, equipment, daily running etc. e.g. casting steel into large pipes and boilers to install a CHP facility produces quite a bit.
Blears - the eyes are really shifty in the photo and to me they lack any kind of warmness. But having to smile all day for the cameras is pretty annoying.
RJG, Bitterne Park says...
4:46pm Mon 23 Feb 09
hulla baloo wrote:Er, I can tell you that I've seen ministerial cars recently (as in, this week) and they are hybrids. I'm not sure what other kind of proof you're after.
RJG wrote:Can you prove that,as I beg to differ.
hulla baloo wrote: Are these the same ministers that created a good impression by travelling down by train, only to have their cars follow on behind to meet them? Total hypocrites, all of them.Incidentally, all the ministerial cars are hybrids now.
Duncan Disorderly, Whereami says...
4:55pm Mon 23 Feb 09
helenatkins, says...
6:02pm Mon 23 Feb 09
Miles Sway, Scotland says...
8:07pm Mon 23 Feb 09
10 Minute Man wrote:Well done 10 min man - I tried the maths in a hurry earlier and got them completely b7oody wrong, same result though, doesn't seem a lot in the scale of things.
Lets call it 10 tonnes/house
112538/240= offsetting the carbon of 468 houses every year since it started.
I wonder how much co2 was produced in creation of the facility, equipment, daily running etc. e.g. casting steel into large pipes and boilers to install a CHP facility produces quite a bit.
Blears - the eyes are really shifty in the photo and to me they lack any kind of warmness. But having to smile all day for the cameras is pretty annoying.
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hulla baloo, Turkey says...
2:25pm Mon 23 Feb 09
Total hypocrites, all of them.