News: UK Using Spy Plane to Identify Homes Wasting Energy

The UK has been using a spy plane to fly overhead to identify homes that are wasting energy. They are using camera technology to identify homeowners who are wasting the most energy and then shame them into turning their heat down. These thermal images of homes were taken by a light aircraft fitted with military technology to record the heat escaping from people's houses.

The maps identifying individual homes were then placed on the internet to encourage occupiers to reduce their wastage and carbon emissions by fitting insulation and turning the thermostat down. Homes that were losing the most heat were represented as bright red on the map. The least wasteful households were shown in deep blue.

Source Non-Mobile: http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article1744293.ece
Source Non-Mobile: http://www.hotmapping.co.uk/

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