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.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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First residential roof-top wind turbines
Tollard House, the first residential roof top wind turbines installed in the ...
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Phy...
Senior 6th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar...
See Brunel's Thames Tunnel.
Born Stockport. Engineer working in the field of precision instruments and guns. Philanthropic, giving money for education during his life and encouraging his beneficiaries to do so after his death...
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but forced to flee to the United States after publicly predicting the demise of Robespierre. He submitted a design for the Ca...
On the sequence of events the plaque is not clear. Caroline married George in 1795 and after the birth of their daughter they separated a...
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...
The River Fleet is known to have flooded in the area from St Pancras and southwards in the 13th century, and then specifically in 1317 and 1768 and then floods are recorded in 1809, 1818 and 1846. ...
In 1996 the BFI erected 126 plaques across Britain to commemorate the centenary of cinema. See the pdf.
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