Energy

Materials generally available for building purposes can be classified into two generic groups – bulk materials and reflective foil laminates (RFL). The fi...

Who said being off-grid was uncomfortable? Well not if you get yourself one of those: a power inverter will allow you to plug into a car cigar lighter or a sola...

There are over 11,000 officially registered homes with solar power in California, up from 900 in 2002. There are many more in the backwoods and small towns. Now...

Harsh weather conditions and inaccessibility for half the year make it impossible to install wires and pipes to deliver energy to Antarctica. In Australia�s Maw...

It seems like a paradox, but solar refrigerators only need the sun to come out before they will chill your drinks. Solar fridge/freezer systems work with power ...

The inhabitants of Utsira, a small island off the southwest coast of Norway, are so pleased with their new wind and hydrogen power plant that they named one of ...

Soaring electricity prices and fear of recurrent blackouts are pushing liberal New Yorkers to switch to solar power. From Brooklyn to the Bronx, solar panels ar...

Last week we discovered something great: solar cooking. The weather was so nice, we thought we’d try building a solar cooker – and it worked. Our la...

Living off-grid means reducing your consumption to the minimum, be it water or energy. To save money on electricity, replace normal light bulbs with energy savi...

There are simple things you can do to decrease the energy consumption off-grid in your house, shack, tree-house, campervan or boat. Energy efficiency is easy. S...

Want to learn how to build a wind turbine? Here are a few tips Hugh Piggott has a good website with detailed explanations. He runs workshops all over the world,...

Photovoltaic cells, the devices that make up solar panels, are made out of silicon. This semiconductor converts the light that strikes it into electricity. Scie...