Energy saving and efficiency

Watt Watcher's energy saving projects homepage (US based)

includes a useful page of energy saving tips and a comparison of the real cost of 'cheap' filament bulbs compared to their energy saving alternatives

A page of links to Energy Advice Services

Energy Saving Trust - click the links for 'your home'; you can look at where energy is wasted by many appliances in your home. Full of information but may take a while to load.

 

Non-renewable Energy Resources

Government paper about how efficient fossil-fuel fired power stations are

Combined heat and power - how some power stations use 'wasted' heat usefully

Guardian newspaper article about how reliant we are on fossil fuels

An article on the safety of nuclear power plants

British Energy fact files - loads of data about nuclear power

How a nuclear power station is decommissioned; there is a section on cost but it's not very clear! It shows that it costs £4.6 billion pounds a year for decommissioning.

Oneworld site on energy - lots of information in one place - particularly useful for nuclear energy

The economics of nuclear power (Nuclear Issues Briefing paper) including graphs showing selective use of statistics

Renewable Energy Resources

Yorkshire Electricity's education pages - basic background to energy resources

Energy supplies (thanks to Angus Gregson for this lot!)

All types:

dti site                       another dti site ; their education pack             eduweb                

 Australian government site                   SWEB site             

Hydroelectricity:

waterpower                   Dinorwic                  Hydroelectricity        

Solar                      

Tidal                Tidal again                  Tidal (bit hard going)                      

Wave              Wave  again                     

Wind              Wind again