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Beware Earth4Energy
EnergyApr 6, 2013

Beware Earth4Energy

Earth4Energy is a well-organised internet scam based around building your own solar panbels. -so well organised they even give refunds to the 40% of dissatisfie...

Electric Car Battery that charges off-grid
EnergyApr 4, 2013

Electric Car Battery that charges off-grid

A ground-breaking car battery that requires no mains recharging may revolutionise ecofriendly transport.. The Metalectrique battery powers a car for a claimed 1...

Cooking with Gas
EnergyMar 3, 2013

Cooking with Gas

Tokyo, 4 MArch – Japanese scientists have developed a way to generate electricity from chemical waste – a byproduct of paint-manufacturing. IHI Corp...

Going off-grid before we went off-grid
CommunitiesFeb 28, 2013

Going off-grid before we went off-grid

Before we moved to our off-grid home, long before, we had begun purchasing the things we would need to live off-grid. This meant solar panels, inverters, charge...

Isle of Wight resident to trial Hydrogen storage
EnergyFeb 22, 2013

Isle of Wight resident to trial Hydrogen storage

A few residents of the Isle of Wight,  65,000 population off the coast of England, are hoping to make half its homes energy and water self-sufficient by 2020. B...

Off-Grid Military Energy Solutions
EnergyFeb 20, 2013

Off-Grid Military Energy Solutions

  Just as the Internet was invented by the US military, in conjunction with University College London and a Norwegian research lab – so the US military are...

So when did Environmentalism lose its soul?
EnergyFeb 10, 2013

So when did Environmentalism lose its soul?

The Vermont Times Argus published a spot-on review of a new book by Bill McKibben -one of many who made a career out of jetting between conferences about the en...

Eco-super-homes hit with massive Utility bills
EnergyFeb 6, 2013

Eco-super-homes hit with massive Utility bills

Residents of an eco-housing tract in the UK have been hit with massive Utility bills equal to 2% of the value of their homes. It seems like a gigantic blunder b...

Off-Grid lighting
CommunitiesFeb 3, 2013

Off-Grid lighting

Whether you live off-grid or in a regular home, you need light. With the right number and position of windows, you can get along just fine during the day, but o...

Smart meter resisters cuffed at home
EnergyJan 27, 2013

Smart meter resisters cuffed at home

Do these people look like criminals? The two ladies on the left were arrested in their own homes yesterday, for refusing to accept the installation of a new &#8...

India shivers as grid crashes
EnergyJan 11, 2013

India shivers as grid crashes

Lucknow, India: The State of Uttar Pradesh is shivering and in darkness with six power plants tripping in succession hours after a sharp rise in electricity dem...

Death by Grid
EnergyJan 9, 2013

Death by Grid

It should be called the Dumb Grid. Remember the General Electric TV advertisement from the 2009 SuperBowl? It showed a scarecrow dancing from line to line on Po...