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Times OnLine - 13/01/10

British business has had it tough in the big freeze. Consumers have turned up the thermostat to counter the plunging temperatures and industry has had to suffer power cuts to make up the shortfall. Angst over national power supplies has rarely been so severe.

Yet the solution for the office, the factory or the depot may lie not in billion-dollar international energy deals but on its doorstep. IGas, a coal-bed methane group, began a campaign yesterday to persuade large energy users to allow it to set up mini-gas production facilities on their sites and supply them directly with a substantial proportion of their gas requirements.

The move comes after National Grid issued four gas-supply warnings in the space of a week. Last week more than 100 industrial users suffered a temporary cut when supplies were interrupted because a Norwegian gasfield was shut down.

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Aurora wrote:

Times OnLine - 13/01/10

Consumers have turned up the thermostat to counter the plunging temperatures

This really gets my goat. Journalists don't understand what a thermostat does or is. I saw this on a bbc news item a couple of weeks ago too.

A thermostat maintains a desired chosen temperature (all else being well) thats all.

No requirement to turn it higher if the weather gets colder.

Subliminally it is suggestive to the reader to turn up the thermostat which we all know is completely wrong. We have a long way to go and we might as well start with the journos.

RenewableCandy wrote:I thought for a moment there they were proposing to dig up the tarmac and turn it into fuel...