Crypt school reducing carbon footprint

“It all depends upon how you measure such things. Many delude themselves - about the green bin you refer to - that costs several times the landfill savings and landfill methane generation in transport and in-vessel/central composting which use fossil fuels. There is a family in Longhope who throw out very little, and the trick is to consume less of everything.

Making of hybrid cars, batteries, wind turbines, or nuclear stations, etc, high cost - some have analysed the carbon footprint - and for most low mileage users electric cars mean little - costs quite a lot more - cash and emissions.

Similarly that flight to S America is giving her a lot of black marks, or eating meat, food and clothing produced overseas, etc, etc. - as said need to set up careful monitoring procedure. Same goes for many green solutions - PV for example takes a lot of processing water, and energy to start with, wood pellets for biomass boilers at £200+Te is criminal and gives out huge amounts of bad emissions and carcinogens - don't tell that to the anti-incineration lobby.

We are stuck with the systems we have/given by nit-wits - and SS Earth will soon run out of usable water, land, energy, and mineral resources to maintain the profligate consumption patterns we have developed - well before we are suffocated by obnoxious fumes or inundated with rain/rising sea levels or dry out by heat due to climate change.

A few that compost at home or meticulously sort their waste materials, wash the cans with hot water before putting in the bin for recycling, and then wash the bins with hot water, buy electric cars or send money for planting trees in the under developed world as penitence for their environmental sins - all such will be history - give or take a century or two or may be decades.”

“by Bonkim2003.........agreed. I'd like to see the figures in a couple of years.
As to being 'the most eco-friendly school in Gloucester', I'm reminded of a programme on TV a couple of years ago.
One family, two parents, two children, all they did was put out a green bin with recycleables in. They did very little leisure, except shopping at the weekends in somewhere like Bluewater.
Another that had a speed boat, were out in the great outdoors all of the time, rarely inside, so heating and lighting was kept v.low. However, they had a gas guzzler (diesel, actually) to pull the boat, and it was only used for that.
A third couple were semi-retired.
She did voluntary work, and bought a brand new Prius to 'help the environment'.
He was a part-time sales agent. He boought a brand new Lexus that had some sort of dual power, again 'to help the environment'.
And finally, a single girl had all her holiday in one go, ie, three weeks, and went to South America, and did volunteer work for someone like Oxfam. She got paid nothing, not even exes, in fact, had to pay for her keep as well as travel costs.
They were all judged over a twelve month period, by some pious, hand-wringing, tree-hugging idiot!!!
You will have guessed by now that the winner was the family that did ferk all, except put the bins out!
So what I am saying is, it can 'appear' to be green, without actually doing so.”

“The returns on the feed in tariff has come down since March and installers take care the solar panels are installed to generate maximum power - many installations do not achieve their potential and 13916kWhr appears to be relatively low for 84 panels (dependent on rating) (TIG note the unit of electricity units consumed or generated is kiloWatt hour - not kW)”