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Beyond the global or regional carbon pricing strategies I've already discussed, I'd also like to work out a personal carbon price. A personal carbon price is effectively the price that I, personally, am willing to pay to offset a tonne of my own carbon emissions. It's a concept I've been thinking about more and more …
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Out of all the strategies that have been proposed to help the world toward a net-zero future, carbon pricing is one of the most compelling.
It's a conceptually straightforward concept and the argument goes something like this:
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When it comes to absolutely zero-cost ways to save energy and money the options are few and far between. Unless you’re routinely leaving your windows open in the winter, it basically comes down to turning things off, lowering your expectations of what’s acceptable in some regard, or increasing the efficiency of …
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Refrigeration is a significant contributor to household electricity usage. An energy survey conducted by the energy supplier Ovo1 estimated that "cold appliances", including both fridges and freezers, accounted for 16% of all household electricity usage.
I've been wanting to understand my own …
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Simply put, standby power is the amount of power something is using when it's not switched on. One example might be your television. When you turn the television off, it's unlikely you're going to unplug it from the wall. This means that it's going to draw a small amount of power even when it's "off".
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