Options for powering residential homes

 It was my birthday this weekend. It may not be everyone’s choice but for my birthday, I visited the eco-tricity wind turbine in Swaffham in Norfolk.

Looking at the map, I was intrigued to find. They also have a buyer gas plant in the area.

This got me thinking about options for providing domestic power to homes.

35 years ago I visited a small development of the sustainable homes. They had no fossil fuel heating and the group of houses was powered by winter on.

What is this? Really feasible for whole villages and towns? So what are the options?


Anaerobic digestion for bio gas

A new proposed development will produce biome for 30,000 homes. It uses crops grown as feedstock specifically for the plant. It does not use byproducts or waste. There is certainly some controversy around the use of arable farmland to feed aerobic digestion rather than using food waste for energy which seems to address a waste problem and convert what was waste into renewable energy. She’s a much neater solution.. Therefore, particularly growing plants just for feedback rather than using the surface that never even gets to a table is controversial.



Swaffham prior community heating


Wind turbine Swaffham Ecotricity

The ecotricity wind turbine in Swaffham,  Norfolk produces power for 1000 homes. This is four times the size of my village and I personally feel that a single wind turbine powering the village is a very acceptable solution for renewable energy. Indeed wind turbines are the solution that I first saw in renewable homes 30 years ago first visited stable housing but used no additional internal heating. It feels very much like homes could be sustainable and rely on renewable energy. 


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