Most of the CO2 produced by our homes comes from the energy we use. And heating accounts for around 60% of that energy.
What's more, most homes in the UK are overheated. A nice, comfy setting for your thermostat is between 18C and 21C - but half of the nation's thermostats are set higher than this.
Instead, warm your cockles by putting on a snug jumper or snuggling up to someone swell and lower your heating a touch or leave it off for a bit longer.
If everyone in the UK used more of their natural human heat - each body is equivalent to a 100 Watt heater - and turned their heating down by just one degree, we'd save 6.7 million tonnes of CO2 each year.
That's like shutting down fourteen coal-fired power stations for a month, not to mention chopping £716 million off our energy bills.
And being a bit cooler means you'll burn more calories to generate body warmth, giving you a nicer figure to show off come summertime.
More info from the Green Thing wiki >>
Say someone comes up to you and asks why you’re using Human Heat rather than central heating. What are you going to do? Blub like a baby? No – you're going to smack back with a pithy comeback like one of these:
- Because overheating is cheating.
- Because a madman has wired up my central heating thermostat to a bomb.
- Because I'm saving energy to save money to pay for your personality transplant.
- Beautiful people offer their bodies to me, what can I do?
- I could tell you, but I'd have to cremate you.
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