Energy
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Australia Decentralises
When folks first hear about Tyalgum, in East Australia they picture Mad Max. Steampunk locals power this dieselpunk outpost with renewable, ethanol-based Guzzol...
The House with No Bills
An Australian housebuilder has launched a search for a family to live in its prototype Home with No Energy Bills. Mirvac is building the house in a suburb of Me...
River mobile battery
Backup batteries? Got ’em. Mobile charging stations? Check. But I need a mobile battery that will keep my beer cold and charge my phone and laptop all day...
Electro Magnetic Pulse weapon threat to USA
For years North Korea has sought to be a nuclear power. Now it is thought that the hermit nation has another weapon which could wreak havoc on our electricity,...
EU tries to stamp out off-grid living
The European Union (EU) devotes huge resources to delivering the power grid to every nook and cranny of Europe. Brussels is on a mission to stamp out off-grid l...
Microsoft Opens First Underwater Server Farm
Microsoft has made bold moves to achieve their goal of having 50 percent of their power usage come from renewable, sources by 2018. Microsoft has steadily begun...
Aussies shocked by energy price rises
Rising electricity prices in Queensland are forcing a soon-to-be retired single woman to become 100% energy self-sufficient, storing renewable energy onsite. Ho...
World’s largest battery in 80 days
Tesla is teaming up with French energy company Neoen to build the world’s largest battery within 80 days in South Australia. The state has been struggling with ...
Never leave full batteries
I planned to install batteries to backup to the rooftop PV system and for years have had misleading advice from many sources. I always thought I could simply ad...
Cooking with the sun
There are several different ways to use the sun in cooking, aka solar cooking or solar ovens. If you live in a sunny place, the desert, anyplace with unobstruct...
La Crisis de Energía en Sudáfrica
Las autoridades locales en Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica, enfrentan una crisis energética debido a que el robo de electricidad, las facturas impagas y el cambio a ...
Battery costs plummet
Huge advances aimed at the Electric vehicle market are slashing battery costs, changing the way the power grid works and bringing benefits to off-grid communiti...