Or that you accept that even without a market the bottles (or coal power stations) will still be used so its better to deal with the problem than stick your head in the sand & wish they would stop.

As i stated in my post, buy a Dehumidifier. B&Q sell one for £80. Approx 180w to run. You can leave it on constant or on Humidity settings. I left mine on constant for some time and now i use the Humidity settings to control when it come on or not. Also, buy one of these:

http://www.safetots.co.uk/866.htm

We are in an area of all buildings made from solid limestone. There are dehumidifiers for sale here that are plastic boxes about the size of 1.5 shoe boxes. They do not use electricity but you do have to change the cartridge. They are not expensive and seem to dry out cold wet walls well. Normal life here (no damp courses and porous rock)!

I did reply to this, but decided to delete my reply, because it is going off topic.

I suggest that if you want to discuss fossil fuel use and markets for the byproducts, you start a discussion in another category.

Nah not that interested (I do enough personally already to lower fossil fuel use), after all you brought it up.

Justme

Aaaaaanyway, back to the original topic, we've decided to try a dehumidifier, so will report back if we see any difference! Thanks for all the advice folks xx

You will see a massive improvement. Good luck.

Did you get a Dehumidifier and if so which one?

We got one about 2 years ago to dry out the laundry room and the "kit room". As we have to dry indoors for about 6 months of the year, plus lots of wet kit coming in and out. Also, we had the beginings of a damp problem due to drainage issue at the back of the house (now fixed).

It pulls about 6-8 litres of water out of the air in a week, and its now on a low setting (about 1/3rd power or less). Only runs about 2 hours a day as well, as far as i've worked out (not in much detail) it costs us about 40-50 pence a week to run. But it did cost us more like £150 than £80. Will be switched off in april or may (once the washing can go outside).

Its not really an option to do anything else in our situation, increased ventilation will lead to frostbite and we already have central heating........

The one my inlaws have in the basement is either on, or off. Eats electricity, but cost them well under £100. Still gets about the same volume of water tho, even tho they have a much damper space to dry out.

What make / model is yours?

Couldn't even tell you Its the local electrical supermarkets (elgiganten) own brand.

Picture?

Its an Appliance AP2012+

Edit:- It appears to have been discontinued