By virtue of the way in which I watch TV, I rarely come across the latest in advertising until it’s well into the mainstream consciousness. So it is with no real surprise that I never saw this fantastic Apple iPad ad that aired last month. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Le9wvoY00 Apple have a history … [continued]
The United States currently has in excess of 43 GW currently waiting in its solar PV project pipeline awaiting completion, up 7% during the past 12 months and — upon completion — enough to power 6 million US homes. Furthermore, where previously it was large projects sized over 100 MW … [continued]
Since 2004, in 500 cities and 50 countries, shared bicycles have increased 10 fold. These numbers are not slowing down, but increasing. The Earth Policy Institute (EPI) projects that even the US, which lags behind, has (in 2012) 21 schemes with 8,500 bicycles, and the EPI expects the fleet to … [continued]
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is going to utilize excess heat from subway tunnels and an electric substation in London to supply homes with heat. Substations contain electronics such as transformers through which massive amounts of power travel, and these transformers do generate a great deal of heat because … [continued]
Since Japan’s feed-in tariff (FiT) was introduced (July 2012), its solar photovoltaic generation capacity installed has amounted to 3.9 GW. In all, approximately 4.086 GW of renewable power generation capacity was added since July 2012, including solar, wind, small and medium-sized hydroelectric, biomass, and geothermal. Solar accounted for 90% of the … [continued]
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint by Lindsay Wilson The better insulated and air tight your home is, the more comfort you get from each unit of heat. In fact, homes can even be so well insulated and air tight that they only need the sun, bodies, appliances, and some … [continued]
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint by Lindsay Wilson This is the fifth post in our Beginner’s Guide to Heating Bills, it follows average heating bills, heating fuel use, heating cost comparisons and home heat loss. Have you ever heard that ‘reducing your thermostat setting by 1°C (1.8°F) can cut your heating bill by 10%’? Do … [continued]
A new German energy storage system has received a 2013 German Renewables Award at a ceremony which was held earlier this month in… Germany. The system is called the ASD Sonnenspeicher. It is was created by Automatic Storage Device (ASD). I’m sure that Germans will be pleased to hear that it … [continued]
In Scotland, developers have been cutting back on offshore wind deployment due to the high cost of it. The installation of wind turbines into the sea floor is part of this issue. But a long-waiting solution is floating wind turbines. In Scotland, a floating wind farm project called the Buchan … [continued]
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint by Lindsay Wilson This is the fourth post in our Beginner’s Guide to Heating Bills, it follows average heating bills, heating fuel use and heating cost comparisons. In the first post of this series I mentioned that the thing that you are really paying for in your heating bill is … [continued]
