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The Greenhouse Effect | Climate change - facts and figures

Some small pieces of information that may shock you or serve as a reminder to help you save energy and money! The average household could save around two tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year by making their home energy efficient. 1 Lighting an office overnight wastes enough energy to heat water for 1000 cups of tea. 2 A photocopier left on overnight uses enough energy to produce over 1500 copies. 3 Leaving a PC monitor on all night wastes enough energy to microwave six dinners. 4 Switching off non-essential equipment in an office overnight saves enough energy to run a small car for 100 miles. 5 A typical window left open overnight in winter will waste enough energy to drive a small car over 35 miles. 6 The UK with 1% of the world's population produces 2.3% of the world's C02. 7 German utility company RWE owns power stations in the UK and produces more C02 in a year than the whole of Spain. 8 The UK has, in the form of wind power, the largest renewable energy resource in Europe. 9 If every home in the UK replaced a 100W light bulb with a 20W low-energy bulb, the amount of energy saved would be the same as that produced by the Sizewell B power station! 10 In most homes, lighting accounts for 10 – 15% of the electricity bill. 11 UK households use £1.2 billion worth of electricity every year on lighting. 12 Electricity consumption by domestic lights and appliances has nearly doubled since 1970 and it is set to increase by 12% to 2010. 13 If every house used 2 energy-saving bulbs in 2 of the four most used lights we would save enough energy to power all the street lighting in the UK. 14 Sources: 1 to 6 - The Carbon Trust 7 to 9 - Friends of the Earth 10 - Defra 11 to 14 - The Energy Saving Trust
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