Energy savings using Thermal Cooker, Cobb and Ghillie Kettle.

I was sent this email the other day from Ian Knox who uses every day his Thermal Cooker, Cobb and Ghillie Kettle for cooking. He lives near Southampton in UK and as you can see is certainly do his bit towards trying to Helping Mother Earth.
The figures are for savings made between January to August 2009 compare to the same period 2008.

Ian's emails (all of these are published with Ian's permission)

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22/04/2009:

As discussed my energy bills have been reduced from 76 GBP per month to as you can see 49GBP per month this reduction has been achieved by using the Cobb rather than our conventional oven.

From Ian's energy company:

Some good news: we are reducing your monthly Direct Debit to £49

We have reviewed your payments including your current credit balance of £2.63, and have calculated that we can reduce your monthly Direct Debit to £49.00.

You do not need to do anything as we'll start taking the new amount on 1 May 2009.

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16/09/2009:

Hello Dave
Just a quick update on things.
Firstly you will be pleased to know that my energy tracker with Eon shows that we have made a saving of 8.7% on electricity and 32.8%on gas by using Cobb,Shuttle chef and Ghillie Kettle which amounts to 111KWH of energy saved which is enough to light an average house for seven weeks on energy saving light bulbs.

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18/09/2009

Hello Dave

This is taken from our eon on line account, please feel free to use the information as you wish.

Regards

Your Energy Consumption Summary:

111 kWh energy saved = enough energy to light an average house* for 7 weeks using energy saving light bulbs the current year, your energy usage has:

Overall - Electricity plus Gas
gone down by 26.9%

Electricity - gone down by 8.7%
Gas - gone down by 32.8%


2009 - 3.139 Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide

or

* 9,659 Miles travelled in an average sized car.**

Your CO2 emissions have gone down - a reduction of 0.651 tonnes on 2008

The History of the Cobb

The design of the Cobb Portable Grill originated with safety in mind. An innovation straight out of Africa, the Cobb was initially designed as a cooking system for people in rural areas without access to electricity so they could cook in a safer environment, with less danger of out of control fires. The first proto type of the grill was a ceramic sphere-shaped device that cooked well, but was heavy and cumbersome. The initial fuel source for the Cobb was dry corn cobs, abundant in rural Africa, hence the grill’s name. The unit has been refined over and over, and the result is a small, eco-friendly, portable and incredibly efficient barbecue. Compressed charcoal briquettes – a universal commodity, have replaced the corn cobs.

The Cobb has taken over seven years to get to the point it is today. The Cobb has certainly created a following for itself. The Cobb most certainly does ‘make life easier’
With the possible distribution of the Cobb Cooker in third world countries through international aid organizations, it is hoped that it will some day contribute to a reduction in deforestation, injury and loss of life and property from primitive and dangerous cooking methods.

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