Subject: 
         Energy being wasted!
   Date: 
         Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:27:52 +0100
  From: 
         "Nick Williams (UK)" <nick.williams@eu.citrix.com>
     To: 
         "greenonline@greenonline.co.uk" <greenonline@greenonline.co.uk>

Dear Mr Greenonline,

I am writing to you as a concerned member of the public.

I am in fact concened by a great many things but perhaps the issue uppermost
in my mind at the moment
is the large amounts of energy which are wasted every year boiling up water
to make cups of tea.
While I concede that tea is indeed the Great British publics favourite
beverage, and I have no problem with this,
surely there is a more energy efficient method of preparing this beverage. (
I have even heard of people who will
fill a whole teapot with boiling water in order to make one cup! Shudder!)

I have done some rough calculations on the back of an old envelope to
support this concern and the results 
seem to suggest that if we all started making tea with say, cold water ( I
have no idea if this is possible ), then 
we would save enough electricity to light up the whole of High Wycombe High
Street for 15 seconds.

I would be very interested to know of any existing research into this
problem.

Yours,

nick.