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Blackshaw Environmental Action Team’s (BEAT) next public meeting is on Wednesday 13 February.

Jonathan Atkinson will be speaking about the Carbon Co-op in Manchester.

Phil Knowles and Finn Jensen will talk about their experiences of two different types of thermal solar panels.

Evacuated tube solar thermal

Phil will also describe how ten households in Blackshaw Head got together to install thermal solar panels some years ago as a BEAT community project.

The meeting is at Blackshaw Head Methodist Church (the Chapel) at 7.45pm. Bus E goes to the door.

(Here’s a word of caution about payback times for the cost of installing solar water heating.)