80% might be wrong, I was quoting numbers off the top of my head. It
will definitely vary from house to house and depend very much what
technology you have installed. I also would have checked the figure
more thouroughly had I posted the original message on BA.
EB
On Feb 13, 2008 3:49 PM, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> I would like some evidence that 80% of domestic use is for heating water. I
> would suspect that heating the house in the southern states takes a lot more
> energy and cooling the house in the northern states (and southern states
> summer) would also take a fair chunk. I just evaluated solar hotwater for my
> wife and myself in Melbourne and the %age of our gas bill (let alone our
> total energy bill) that it would save was pretty small.
>
>
> On 13/02/2008, <> wrote:
> >
> > I rember hearing on the radio that average temperatures in Austrlia
> > already went up
> > approximately 1 degree just this year?
> >
> > Regards, Simon Muirhead
> >
> > Quoting michael hunter <>:
> >
> > > Mulgoa Valley is sodden Alistair, most of the pre-drought suite
> > > of
> > > sightings are back, visible during sunny patches but not quite up to
> > > the
> > > routine fifty plus on any outing any day. GOLDEN-HEADED CISTICOLAS
> > > back
> > > after six years, now we have grass, two long-tailed dark-eyed
> > > VARIEGATED
> > > FAIRY-WREN females with their characteristic call popped up in
> > > response to
> > > "air-kissing", DUSKY WOOD-SWALLOWS on high dead branches, with
> > > DOLLARBIRDS,
> > > and RAINBOW BEE-EATERS also on the wires, OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLES,
> > > WHITE-THROATED TREECREEPER, VARIED SITELLAS, notable this morning,
> > > among
> > > many others. A couple of TREE MARTINS but no Fairy Martins as yet,
> > > they turn
> > > up and nest under our verandah in wet years, but this has been too
> > > wet, the
> > > mud is all under water.
> > > Also a high-pitched "see-see" from ground-level on the steep
> > > slope
> > > north of Mayfair Rd which has heavy regrowth , possibly SPOTTED
> > > QUAIL-THRUSH.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
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