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Vodafone African off-grid tests

Vodafone is set to announce it will build one of Africa’s greenest commercial buildings as a base for testing new ways of using renewable energy across its global network.

Based in Midrand, South Africa, the innovation centre will examine how the company can reduce carbon emissions through the use of renewable energy, as well as batteries. The centre will also look at how to reduce the running and deployment cost of base station sites. Findings will be shared across the Vodafone group.…

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April 24, 2011 No Comments

Co-generation in small-town America

Ah, the irony. In San Andreas, CA, atop a possible earthquake of cataclysmic proportions, the town is adopting the latest distributed power generation technologies.

Someday soon, fuels from forests in this area south-east of Sacramento may power water plants, schools and even private businesses.

Bob Dean, a member of the board of directors of the Calaveras County Water District,has proposed portable cogeneration plants to both generate electricity and allow for more efficient use of wood-chip waste generated as local forests are thinned.…

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April 10, 2011 1 Comment

Grid tie solar useless in Queensland flood crisis

With Queensland’s capital Brisbane devastated in the Australian floods, householders are learning the disadvantages of grid tied solar.

Because of the way Utility companies in Australia and the world over, insist on gaming the system, grid-tied solar panels only produce power when the grid is running. So they fail to fulfil the main purpose that many people buy  them for – to give safety and independence from the collapsing energy and financial system.
However, there are ways to convert a grid-tie system to work off-grid in emergencies – just a shame that the Utility companies do not provide a simple trip switch to allow homeowners  to operate the panels off-grid when needed.
Here is how to do it
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January 13, 2011 5 Comments

Joan Baez recovers from tree-house fall

“I sleep in a tree all summer long,” Baez said 2008. “I climb up on a ladder, with ropes and things. The birds are right there in the morning. Sometimes they’re flying so close to my head, I can feel the wind.”…

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November 20, 2010 4 Comments

Prince William’s off-grid eco palace

Off-Grid.net predicted years ago that the wedding of William and Katie Middleton would finally be announced. This settles, amongst other things, the future of the $10m Herefordshire eco-palace that Prince Charles has been preparing for the happy couple.

We first reported it in 2006.  An old sandstone quarry had been re-opened within the estate as a so urce of stone. Oak was sourced from the Duchy’s Herefordshire woodlands, and  natural slates for the roofs from Wales.  An on-site eco-sewage works will filter waste through a bed of reeds.…

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November 16, 2010 2 Comments

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