Conserving Energy: Radio Yarn

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

208

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

518

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Conserving Energy: Microdot
2. 2Conserving Energy: Secret Straw
3. 3Conserving Energy: Radio Yarn
4. 4Conserving Energy: Safe Deslag

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: The energy required to make just one knitted pullover is enough to keep a 100 watt bulb aglow for 24 hours. Most of this energy is spent in boiling great vats of water and dye and steaming the wool in these vats for hours to fix that dye. Now a Scottish firm has developed a system which saves much of this wasted energy; the wool is merely dampened, and the dye fixed to it in an adapted microwave oven.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Inventions and discoveries; Energy resources

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/208

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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