{"id":341,"date":"2006-02-09T23:46:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=84"},"modified":"2006-02-10T06:21:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T14:21:13","slug":"offices-and-self-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Offices and self generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1613\">wrote about<\/a> using personal power devices (such as CHP and wind turbines) to provide the power for your office and help lower those escalating power bills.   <\/p>\n<p>Now an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4694070.stm\">article at the BBC<\/a> describes how some companies and individuals are doing exactly that, including the Co-operative building in Manchester.  <\/p>\n<p>They expect to save 4% by having a mini farm of turbines on their roof, and up to 30% by using a combination of other 'green' technology.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1763\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1763\" dc:title=\"Offices and self generation\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1763\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=2gOSAV\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=2gOSAV\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=84\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1613\">wrote about<\/a> using personal power devices (such as CHP and wind turbines) to provide the power for your office and help lower those escalating power bills. <\/p>\n<p>Now an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4694070.stm\">article at the BBC<\/a> describes how some companies and individuals are doing exactly that, including the Co-operative building in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>They expect to save 4% by having a mini farm of turbines on their roof, and up to 30% by using a combination of other &#8216;green&#8217; technology. <\/p>\n<p>4% doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but even a small amount helps. 30% is obviously a much larger target and would even even more savings, athough you need to take into account the payback period of 5 years to cover the initial cost of the turbines.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1763\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1763\" dc:title=\"Offices and self generation\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1763\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=CmdEbi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=CmdEbi\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=84\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}