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**Kicking Our Fossil Fuel Addiction: one man’s efforts to live sustainably – by John Watson**
*This article is one of a series produced by the Totnes Sustainability Group that are published each week on different aspects of sustainability in the Totnes Times. This piece appeared two weeks ago.*
It is said that the most important thing in reducing one’s energy demand is determination. If you lack this perhaps the following facts may help:
Depending on how you look at these things this is either photovoltaics making a noble crossover into the Brave New World of the mainstream, or an absurd waste of resources applied to rather pointless aims. A company called ScotteVest has produced a jacket with 52 pockets (!) which are all linked somehow by wires, to create what they call a ‘Personal Area Network’, and you can power the whole thing with a photovoltaic panel on the back, which the promotional literature describes as
