This is no longer breaking news due to my lax blog updating (sorry) but apparently one of the UK's biggest home stores is now selling solar panels.
Green Correspondent Ren sent us this clip:
"Curry's have started selling solar panels in the hight street.
Shoppers in West Thurrock, Essex, and Fulham and Croydon in Greater London will be able to snap up the £1,000 panels, manufactured by Sharp.
An installed system that could halve the electricity bill of a typical three-bedroom home costs £9,000, Currys says."
For more info read:
+ BBC coverage of Curry's solar panel announcement
That's way too expensive if you ask me. I'm hoping that solar panels will get cheaper and cheaper every season. So, Curry's, when will we see the £500 solar panel system?
I have made an official request to visit any of London's recycling centres for an in-depth look at how they really work. Questions like a) who sorts out the 'mixed bags' full of various types of recyclables and b) how are they actually recycled? Most people I speak to are cynical that anything happens to the mixed recycling bags and I myself don't understand how our typical mixed recycling bag, which will usually contain up to 6 types of plastic, aluminum, glass and various types of paper (including little bitty pieces) can be efficiently sorted unless there is a huge team rifling through it all on conveyor belts. I want to know - is it all a London borough con? Where is the evidence of how it is all actually recycled? I can never find any reports on it, apart from % of waste that is sent to recycling sites, not how much is actually recycled or how it is recycled. One of our friends accidentally put his recycling bag out a day early on his street in Notting Hill (
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