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A Beginners Guide To The Solar Shed
The point about sheds is that because they are most emphatically not true residential dwellings they are typically fairly inexpensive and easy to site in whatever location happens to suit, and without the attendant aggravation of complying with building regulations and health and safety legislation and every other creeping blight on your ability to exercise freedom and apply common sense.
That is, of course, until you want to add some power to your (usually wooden) garden shed. Then you have a problem.
The traditional way to supply power to a garden shed ... The Pros and Cons of Installing A Wood Burning Stove
But it's not really about tree-hugging and hand-crafted eco-credibility any more; in addition to very sound environmental reasons, there are very sound economic reasons to go green these days. The ever rising cost of conventional fossil fuel and increasingly tough legislation and regulations (such as the Building Regulations Part L - Conservation of fuel and power) mean that many of us need to consider installing a variety of renewable energy sources.
In the case of new builds, including extensions of any ... Wood Burners Past And Present
And so began a three-sided arms race, with the quest for cheaper fuel bills, modern legislation regarding efficiency and pollution, and advances in materials technology and air flow design all locked in a tussle that resulted in the first really significant departures from the original implementations.
Today's wood burning ... What You Should Know Before Installing Low Energy Light Bulbs
arse about climate change (in the teeth of some very solid evidence it has to be said) you still can't ignore this issue because your government and the governments of pretty much the entire developed world have agreed that global warming is a clear and present danger and have enacted legislation to compel everyone, you included, to switch to low energy (or energy saving, the terms are interchangeable) light bulbs within the next two years.
The reason is very simple. Multiply all that waste heat and electricity by the billions of light bulbs switched on every day and you get to a very big number. And it's not ... How Energy Saving Lighting And Global Warming Are Connected
The governments of many developed countries have already enacted legislation to phase out and ultimately ban the normal incandescent light bulb we all know so well.
Australia has passed lighting legislation to have incandescent bulbs removed from the shelves by 2010, Canada is aiming for 2012, as are all member countries of the European Union, with the United Kingdom targeting 2011 so as to be ahead of the EU wide requirement to eliminate inefficient incandescent light bulbs.
The UK ... 
