The published benefits of domestic wind turbines vary enormously. Taking a very rough average, each one saves about five tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year, and produces a saving on domestic fuel bills of about £3,000 p.a.
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First residential roof-top wind turbines
Tollard House, the first residential roof top wind turbines installed in the ...
Bethnal Green Borough Engineer/Architect in 1922, 1926, 1937.
It was in William Felton's carriage works in Leather Lane that Trevithick's steam-powered carriage was built.
Civil engineer and palaeontologist. FRS. Born Suffolk. Proby was his mother's maiden name. 1819 went to India as a commissioned second lieutenant. Apart from a few years his work there was main...
The so-called New River is actually an aqueduct built 1609 - 1613 from near Ware, Hertfordshire, to Islington to bring fresh water from country springs to the City. It required a 1602 charter from ...
Born Dartington, Devon. Engineer. Worked with railways and ships. Died on holiday in Simonstown, South Africa, where he is buried.
Equitable Life, the world's oldest mutual insurer, started business in 1762 in the parsonage of St Nicholas Acons in Nicholas Lane. It pioneered scientific life assurance by basing premiums on age ...
Born Frankfurt, Germany. Died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
Person, Children, Seriously Famous, Tragedy, Germany, Netherlands
London Underground line running from Elephant and Castle to Harrow and Wealdstone. It was originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway. Londonist have a good succinct history of this ...
Both sea-faring, Protestant nations, relations have been pretty good since William of Orange was invited to take the British throne in 1688.
Event, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Netherlands
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