IRVINE TIMES, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 news email: [email protected] online:www.irvinetimes.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/irvinetimes Perceton Rural nutrition talk set to THERE was a good Smith, and for a soup turnout of members bowl, 1. Martha Love, for Perceton Rural’s 2. Marilyn Morton, 3. October meeting where Anne Smith. Rosalind Cartner gave The next meeting a very interesting talk will be held in Girdle on nutrition in relation Toll Church Hall on to various common Thursday November heat 5,000 homes? health problems. 6, when members will Competition results demonstrate flower River Irvine HEAT from the Irvine and Garnock Irvine linked by a series of hot water pipes, known were, for a flask of arranging, lacemaking, rivers could warm 5,000 households as a heat network. The heat pump would act as a soup, 1. Amanda spinning and felting. boiler, providing affordable heat to a number of and businesses if the town tapped the buildings. Clark, 2. Marilyn New members are renewable energy stored in them, new Morton, 3. Anne always welcome. A heat pump built by Star Renewable Energy, Scottish Government data shows. the company of which Mr Pearson is a director, is Heat pumps take in chilly river, loch and sea already operating in the Norwegian city of Drammen, water, compress the heat contained in it and produce where heat is harvested from a chilly fjord to heat Auras to be examined hot water which is used to heat buildings. the equivalent of 6,000 houses, at around 20 per Using a new ‘heat map’ of Irvine, produced by the cent the cost of burning gas. On the new Scottish at the Temple of Light Scottish Government, and data on how much water Government heat map, buildings which require high flows in the rivers Irvine and Garnock, renewable levels of heat show up red, while smaller buildings EVERYONE . John will heat expert Dave Pearson has calculated the new show up as green. The maps, which have been pro- is invited to the be giving a talk about figure. duced for the whole of the UK, can be used to cal- Kilwinning Temple ‘auras’ and he will He said: “Irvine is lucky in that it has not one but culate the potential benefits of installing renewable of Light Spiritualist also be demonstrating two rivers with considerable flows. The Garnock heat technology. Church which is held with the aid of his aura and the Irvine both flow at more than 1,000 litres Stephanie Clark, Policy Manager at trade body at the Nethermains video system. There Drammen heat pump per second nearly all the time, meaning they could Scottish Renewables, said: “With 18,000 house- Community Centre will be a charge of £5 provide water for a heat pump which could power holds in classed as being in fuel pov- every Wednesday payable at the door around 5,000 premises. erty, affordable heat is a priority. evening. and if anyone would “Heat pumps aren’t new – they were, in fact, “Heat pumps use a small amount of energy to The doors open like a picture of their examined by Scottish scientists 150 years ago. But release the large amount of heat which is hid- at 7.15pm with the ‘aura’ the cost will recent technological breakthroughs mean they can den in our rivers and lochs, and the new Scottish service starting at be £5 for a colour play a valuable role in the fight against both climate Government heat map shows where renewable tech- 7.45pm prompt and photograph. change and fuel poverty.” nologies like that could be used to best advantage, closing at 9pm. The medium for Fuel poverty occurs when a household must reducing energy bills and carbon emissions.” The medium October 15 will be spend more than 10 per cent of its income to keep The Scottish Government have set a target that 11 for October 8 is Chris McClatchie warm. In North Ayrshire, 29 per cent of households per cent of the country’s heat should be generated John Seery from from Glasgow. are classed as being in fuel poverty – two per cent from renewable sources by 2020, although that fig- higher than in as a whole. ure currently stands at just 2.6 per cent. Mr Pearson’s scheme would see buildings in TheTower of London and the Sea of Poppies 3 days by rail From or Glasgow

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