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gromituk

Indeed. Because of the poor level of science teaching in this country, most people have not got a clue about how much energy things use, and it is easy for deceitful politicians to pull the wool over their eyes with the great white hope of fuel cells and suchlike.

If you use more electric light, the heat from it will contribute to the warmth in the room, and thus your heating system won't have to work so hard - although of course electricity is produced inefficiently. Clothes will pay for themselves in energy savings many, many times over.

quoia

gromituk wrote:

Indeed. Because of the poor level of science teaching in this country, most people have not got a clue about how much energy things use.................................
Clothes will pay for themselves in energy savings many, many times over.

Think you may have fell foul of your own statement - not so cut and dried.

Many clothes use man-made fibres and materials that are themselves produced from oil and rather nasty chemicals, involve huge amounts of energy to mine and transport and manufacture etc.
Even non man-made materials (cotton/wool) will be treated and dyed and have other hidden costs.
Consider animal feed production for the sheep, the maintenance of a farm where the sheep are bred, the energy used by a vet's existance and the animal pharmaceutical industry to keep the sheep healthy.
What about cotton pickers transport needs?
Also herbicide, pesticide, germicide, fungicide and insecticide research, development, manufacture, distribution and spraying used by the cotton growers?

Then the clothes have to be made?
All those looms and weaving and knitting machines in huge factories with heating and lighting.
Then the shops where they are sold. All that energy!
Then you get them home and they get dirty.
All that washing (again and again and again) with soaps and detergents and all that extra water you have to use...
..and oh my god... WHERE did that washing machine come from ?
Now that's more steel and copper and plastic .....

Need I go on ?