Category: EcoLogical
Sustainability and responsability in dealing with our future.
Drying laundry in the apartment can be a real challenge, especially during times of high humidity. Fortunately, there is a simple solution to overcome this problem: Trotec Maximizing the Efficiency of Electric Heaters with Trotec Room Thermostats
Posted on by Phil Thompson
When using portable electric heating devices at home or in the office, the comfort of additional warmth is greatly appreciated. However, this joy is often overshadowed by concerns about unnecessary high power consumption, whether due to forgetting to turn off the device or setting it to too high a temperature. Both of these worries can be easily addressed with the practical BN30 plug-in thermostat or the super-convenient BN35 radio thermostat with a timer from Trotec. By using these thermostats, whether with ceramic heaters or infrared heating plates, you can significantly increase the efficiency of your electric device.
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Enjoy cosy warmth everywhere with the oil radiator TRH 24 E
Posted on by Phil Thompson
Do you find yourself wanting to make use of unheated spaces, like your basement hobby room or garage workshop, during the colder months? Or perhaps you simply want an extra dose of cosy warmth in your reading chair occasionally? In that case, the TRH 24 E oil radiator is worth a closer look. It glides gracefully to wherever it’s needed, neatly packed in a sleek black enclosure, and conceals a wealth of features behind its heating fins. With a robust 2,200-watt output, it delivers maximum heat quickly, and it comes at a special price to top it off!
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Uncover the biggest energy consumers with energy cost meters
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Saving on your energy bill is highly important right now – both in private households and on construction sites. Who wouldn’t want to know how much energy heaters or radiators are guzzling at home? Or building dehydrators and air conditioning on building sites? Most importantly, you can work out which appliances are costing you the most. Unearth the biggest energy consumers and energy wasters with handy energy cost meters from Trotec. Check out the BX09 for managing energy costs at home and in the office.
Generate your own power with tools from Trotec!
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Want to set up your own at-home power plant? Have you considered generating electricity on your balcony? The timing couldn’t be better. Install a mini photovoltaic system on your balcony to reduce your energy bill. The best part? Anyone can install a small photovoltaic system without any help from an electrician. All you need is the right professional tools to install any brackets that may be required. The Trotec shop features a wide range of brand quality power tools to cover every requirement.
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Take action now to deal with incessant rain!
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Downpours, floods & squalls – the inclement weather is set to continue! The powerful TTK 165 ECO commercial dehumidifier provides an extremely cost-effective dehumidification solution, capable of responding swiftly to avert potential follow-on expenses from damage.
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Buy now (while stocks last!) Keep temperatures and energy costs down with our energy-saving air conditioners.
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
– Wall air conditioners and chest units
– Mobile air conditioners
– Mobile split air conditioners
Google goes green – and so can you!
When you consider that Google.co.uk and Google.com had a massive 90.56% share of the UK search market in May of this year and that this figure was only marginally lower in the months leading up to this representative period, then it would be fair to say that on the basis of the search words we enter into our search engine Google knows quite a lot about us.
But how much do we know about Google? Which facts do you find most interesting and which most intriguing? Read More
Fighting off winter – but without carbon emissions!
I don’t know, is it just me? The wet and cold weather triggers in me an uncontrollable desire to escape the winter weather and go somewhere else – somewhere nice and warm preferably. The last vacations feel like ages ago, and I get itchy feet by the mere thought of summer, sun and beaches. Yearningly, I think back to those times when, sitting in a nice street cafe, you could at least pretend that the summer vacations weren’t over just yet…
But this is becoming increasingly difficult…when you go out these days, you invariably end up having to squeeze into already packed bars or smoky pubs – and this doesn‘t really help with the holiday mood. This is probably the reason why pubs and restaurants with outside facilities are always a lot more popular than others which do not offer that option. And pub owners up and down the country are trying to combat the biting cold with woollen blankets, hot beverages and mushroom heaters in order to attract more customers. But have you ever thought about what the avoidable luxuries of sitting outside in the middle of winter do to our environment?
I know, this is probably one of the very last things you’ll want to think about in such a cosy moment. But did you know that every single one of these mushroom heaters emits as much CO2 as a compact car? In reaction to these statistics, more and more cities all over Europe are thinking of banning or already have banned the patio heaters and the extra carbon-emissions they produce.
But fortunately this doesn’t mean that we all have to give up the Mediterranean atmosphere for good. Electric heaters are a good alternative when it comes to simulating sunnier climates – they also keep you warm and cosy, but without the harmful carbon-dioxide emissions.
And if on top of that the restaurant also switches to green electricity, both customers and the owners have already taken a large step towards reducing their carbon footprint. Cheers!
Electricity straight from the sea
Electricity from the sea is no longer a vision: the future has already begun off the coast of the Orkney Isles in the North of Scotland where the world’s largest wave test facility has been installed near the small port of Stromness, a site which was not picked for its rugged views and primeval landscapes but because it has the highest wave energy potentials in Europe, if not the world.
Huge hopes have been placed in the eco-friendly plant dubbed “Oyster” which transforms the energy produced by the waves into electricity. This incredible feat is achieved by means of flap gates anchored to the seabed which pump seawater from 10m long yellow pipes floating half a kilometre off the coast in the Atlantic through a turbine installed on land to the rhythm of the waves.
Now that the first contracts allowing sea areas to be used to generate electricity have been awarded, the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, already predicts that Scotland will one day be “the Saudi Arabia of marine energy”. In fact of the ten licences that were issued worldwide, nine were specifically for areas off the Orkney Isles.
The project is an extremely ambitious one: one of the intermittent targets that has been set is to provide 350,00 households with electricity derived from this power source by the year 2020. So just how realistic are these plans? Neil Kermode, managing director of the European Marine Energy Centre Ltd, the company providing the marine-based energy technology, has his doubts. He believes that these are still early days compared to other renewable energy alternatives like wind farming. He puts this partly down to underfunding, pointing out that it is not only seawater but also money that needs to be pumped into the project for it to succeed on such a scale.
So until the necessary steps have been taken to ensure that this revolutionary new form of inexhaustible and therefore hopefully more affordable energy is made available to people not only in the outer corners of Scotland, but also all over the world, we, the consumer, will have to continue to cut back on the amount of electricity we are using to keep our electricity bills in check. What a better a way to do this than with the BX11 energy meter, the easy-to-use, plug-in-and-monitor energy-saving device that can knock £100s of pounds off your energy bill by unearthing the greedy little appliances around your home that gobble up electricity even when they are in stand-by so that you can do something about changing your own little cosmos.
Buy a BX 11 energy meter today and make a statement that will also make a difference on your bank statement.
