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Energy prices herald “return to the 70s”
Its time to start culling woodland,scavenging fuel from dumpsters and wearing warmer clothes Start foraging in Granny’s closet — if forecasts by Deu...
Solar cheaper than grid within 3 years
“We believe that in the next 3-5 years you’ll get power cheaper from your roof than from the grid,” says NRG boss, 20m customers...
Grid can’t handle mass solar
Further evidence in favor of Micro-grids and against the so-called Smart Grid. The runaway take-up of rooftop solar panels in Australia has undermined the elect...
Microgrids mean no more mega-outages
As consensus builds around micro-grids as the future of energy, main question will be: “who owns them?”...
Outside cities, many can no longer rely on the Grid
Violent weather in Northeast is stressing the above-ground utility grid as never before – no answer in sight except make your own plans...
Efficient fireplace inserts
They look great but that homey glow real fires produce sends heat right up the chimney as the fire sucks warm air from the rest of the house. “Ninety-five...
Average UK household faces fuel poverty
With average real incomes heading down and average fuel bills going up, the typical British household will be in “fuel poverty” by the 2015 if energy bills sta...
Every step you take, will be powering you
Urban slums the most likely to benefit from kinetic powered LEDs says inventor...
Wood burners, heat pumps, cut bills
the price of wood is rising, but there are still plenty of ways of cutting heating costs...
Homesteading-book review
Homesteading, it’s a buzzword that means different things to different people, back in the day, it meant getting land for free as long as you lived on it ...
Going fridgless
Going fridgless, to most people would be paramount to going topless, many people couldn’t imagine living their lives without having a 19+/- cubic foot ene...
Solar Energy on Dragons Den
The BBC’s top-rated TV show Dragons’ Den gave a cautious thumbs-up to Solar in the first show of its new series. But the valuation they placed on the solar pa...