Many Congratulations to the London Museum of Water and Steam for winning National Lottery Heritage Funding to look at converting existing gas-fired boilers to a more sustainable energy source in order to reduce our carbon footprint. Then to offer a consultancy role to museums with stationary engines to advise on how sustainability and operational policies can align.
Whilst being underpinned by these sustainability imperatives, this working museum has also been engaging volunteer engineers, and teenagers as ‘Steam Explorers’, working with community partners and liaising with energy companies such as ‘Steamology’ in Wiltshire who are pioneering the design and construction of environmentally friendly steam raising boiler plants fuelled by hydrogen and oxygen gas which are mixed to make the steam. The gases are being made from electrolysis of water using renewable power.
Livery Climate Action Group Executive member and Museum Patron Rob Casey
To experience the full panoply of what the Museum has to offer, perhaps on a ‘Steam Up’ weekend, visit:
Green Dragon Lane, Brentford TW8 0EN www.waterandsteam.org.uk
Dr Anne Punter Livery Climate Action Group