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  • Hadyard hill wind farm in South Ayrshire has 52 wind turbines. It generates over 120MW of zero carbon electricity supplying enough electricity to power 80,000 homes.
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  • Barclays Living Roof on its headquarters on Churchill Place in the Isle of Dogs, London. The roof has been designed to create biodiversity and is a closed garden to the staff and public. It is being monitored by University College London as a biological research project and at present is probably the highest in the world.
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  • The low carbon refurbishment project on Borough Grove in Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.  These homes have been refurbished and developed by Radian as part of their 'Retrofit South East' project.
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  • Primary school children measuring wind speeds with anemometers to help determine the best position for a second wind turbine on the school playing fields. St. Columb Minor School, Cornwall. The school won an Ashden Award in 2010 for it's appraoch to sustainable energy.
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  • Children from year 3 watch a Sundance solar spark lighter in action in the school playground. The device is designed to focus the sun's radiant energy to a point that can reach 1000 degrees. St. Columb Minor school, Cornwall.
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  • Pupils from The Bridgford School look inside their converted wood fuel boiler. The school is part Nottinghamshire Country Council who won the 2007 UK Ashden Award. The Ashden Awards for sustainable energy recognises projects finding ways to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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  • Pupils from Mornington primary school with wood pellets for their wood burning stove. The school is part of Nottinghamshire County Council who won the 2007 UK Ashden Award. The Ashden Awards for sustainable energy recognises projects finding ways to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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  • A hand held thermographic camera used to test the efficiency of insulation in a house.
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  • Cavity wall insulation is being installed in a home in Kirklees, UK. Holes are drilled into the wall and foam pumped in.
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  • Loft insulation being installed in a roof in Kirklees, UK.
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  • A John Deere Timberjack removing trees. The machine operated by Brian Nichols chops down and processes a tree ready for chipping in about 90 seconds. Suffolk county council sustainable wood chip production, Suffolk.
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  • A John Deere Timberjack removing trees. The machine operated by Brian Nichols chops down and processes a tree ready for chipping in about 90 seconds. Suffolk county council sustainable wood chip production, Suffolk.
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  • The lorry mounted wood chipper (HEIZOHACK HM 14-800 K) can chip about 5 logs at a time ready for use in wood chip boilers for Suffolk county council sustainable wood chip production, Suffolk.
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  • Garry Battle measures the moisture content of the wood stack with a Protimeter Moisture Meters. Ideally it needs to be around 30% to be ready for chipping. The wood is stored on an airfield for about a year to dry. Suffolk county council sustainable wood chip production, Suffolk.
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  • After being chipped the wood is stored in a local airfield bunker, there are about 50 tonnes stored ready for use in wood chip boilers. Suffolk county council sustainable wood chip production, Suffolk.
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  • The biomass boiler at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM) By investing money to save energy and winning the hearts and minds of staff, UHSM has achieved reduction a reduction of more than 35% in electricity and gas use over the past five years, this year saving some £390,000 on fuel bills. With new technologies such as biomass boilers, heating system upgrades, new lighting, windows and insulation combined with staff behaviour change, the hospital's logical approach to retrofit is eminently replicable across the NHS.
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  • A cyclist passing the central train station. Ghent, Belgium.
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