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FACTS: What to expect from a solar panel
Solar has becoming really popular, and for a whole variety of reasons - including the spectacular price drops (look out coal burners...) that I'm not going to get into here. Selecting solar is no longer...
FACTS: Energy Efficiency versus Nuclear
Let's face it, most of our energy usage today isn't that smart, at a time in history where we have more energy than ever before, we still don't have enough! The old school way of...
SEGMETER: Helping buildings work better
Lately we have been doing a bit of work measuring energy in large buildings and complex sites. Often these are places where there are building management systems that preform many of the low level functions...
FACTS: Generating electricity the hard way
During the recent Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, the Smart Energy team got a chance to check out the Future Spark pedal power demonstration. This is a remarkable piece of engineering, and I had the...
INSIDE MY HOME: The simplest thing to save lots of energy
We all love a hot shower, and a god many of our water heaters are of the bad old single element energy hog, and if you have one of these units, there is a very...