July 2007

Energy

Talkin’ ’bout my generation

Over 50% of UK households want to generate their own power according to an IpsosMori survey. The main reason is to save money, and the environment is the second motivating factor. Full details.

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🔌【Multiple Charging Ports】: 2* Pure Sine Wave AC outlets (110V 350W ), 2* USB-A ports (5V, 3.1A total),1* USB-C port , 2* DC Outputs(12V 8A; 24V 3A) and 1* 12V DC car port to charge your devices, and 1 * 10W wireless charging pad are also equipped. 🔋... read more

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120WH CAPACITY: The power station has a power capacity of 120Wh/33,000mAh which the camping power supply can power most electronic devices efficiently. It can fully charge mobile phone 10+ times, the laptop 2 times, the CPAP machine 3 hours (the time... read more

CAMPING BATTERY WITH MOST PORTS - The outdoor backup lithium battery features 2 x AC outlet (110V 600W in total), 2 x USB-A port, 2 x USB-C port, 2 x 10W Wireless Charger, 2 x 12V DC port and 2 x charging port (USB-C, DC). Our portable power generato...

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CAMPING BATTERY WITH MOST PORTS - The outdoor backup lithium battery features 2 x AC outlet (110V 600W in total), 2 x USB-A port, 2 x USB-C port, 2 x 10W Wireless Charger, 2 x 12V DC port and 2 x charging port (USB-C, DC). Our portable power generato... read more

HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY: With a 22% high conversion efficiency of this 60W mono crystalline solar panel, it’s able to produce electricity in low light outdoor environment (Recommend > 40000Lux) to charge your devices in shorter time. 4 OUTPUT PORT...

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July 31, 2007 No Comments

Mobile

No-one killed the electric car

A new electric car aims to change the way cars are made, sold, owned, and driven, plus reinvent the economics of batteries and even the business model of the electric grid itself.

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July 30, 2007 No Comments

Off-Grid 101

Greening the second home

When weekenders arrive from the city it can often spell doom for the local rural community and the local environment A group of cottages in Canada provide a model for future off-grid second homes.

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July 29, 2007 No Comments

Land

Setback in Wales as planners reject off-grid house

Wrenches – they’ll never give up

The first test of a new policy to promote off-grid housing in the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire has ended with a defeat for Tony and Jane Wrench who built a roundhouse in a beautiful field ten years ago and have been fighting the planning authorities ever since.

The Pembrokeshire planners decided earlier this month that the hobbit-style home is not suitable for the area, even though it is built entirely of natural materials and uses renewable energy and rainwater. The application for retrospective planning permission was declined on the grounds it could not make a positive environmental contribution and has an adverse impact on the semi-natural habitats in this location. The officers also stated that the development cannot meet the basic needs of the applicants in the long term, because of the yield from the woodland.

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July 27, 2007 No Comments

Off-Grid 101

Fortune steps tentatively off-grid

Birds make great ringtones

Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.This piece from Fortune Magazine sums up the ambivalent relation many of the Blackberry generation have with the grid:

I’M STANDING ON A BLUFF overlooking the Pacific Ocean, writes Stanley Bing. The surf is tremendous. In a field to my right, horses are grazing, munching on grass they pull up a clump at a time. A pleasant, ripping sound of roots being torn from the turf is audible under the crash of the waves as they leap up in curls of spume from the black rocks of the beach.

I am off the grid. This is a phrase I have heard only recently, possibly because it is new, possibly because I am no longer so new and hear things later than I used to. Off the grid. It has a nice feel to it.

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July 26, 2007 No Comments

Unplugged – Guardian article

Nick Rosen in his research RV

Thousands of people are choosing to live in homes without mains electricity, gas or water. Are these the eco-townies of the future? The Guardian newspaper today features Nick Rosen’s call for changes to the law to encourage off-grid living. Here is the article in full.

I reckon there are 75,000 people living in nearly 25,000 off-grid homes in the UK. These are homes not connected to mains gas and electricity, water and sewage or even the phone lines that bind the rest of us into a system that wastes energy transporting it around the country, and loses up to 30% of water through leaks.
To get some idea of how many are living this way, I travelled round the UK for most of last year researching a book, How To Live Off-Grid. I met some of the thousands of normal families living this way, in everything from brick houses to yurts.

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July 25, 2007 No Comments

Off-Grid 101

Floods send Brits off-grid ready

Live above water level

Up to half a million Brits are poised to go off the grid this morning as floods interrupted water supplies and power stations were closed down by water damage. The flooding crisis underlines the need to think carefully when choosing where to live off-grid, as well as the benefits of living off-grid in times of climate change.

Central England is the most affected by the worst flooding in 70 years, with 50,000 people at one point losing both power and water supplies, and 450,000 losing just water. The battle continues to save Walham power station from flooding. If it is forced to close, a further 500,000 will have their power cut off.

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July 24, 2007 1 Comment

Off-Grid 101

Wild style

Live In The Wild In Style!

The Do It Green site has a fine roundup of recent articles about living off the grid, full of neat examples and useful links.

(Picture courtesy of Tolka River)

It links to an article at ElectronicHouse featuring an architect designed off-grid home � luxury on the cheap by the look of it, near San Jose CA. A quote from the article,

“Once we did the research and realized it was possible to run a �normal� house off the grid, we really got into the idea…This was also during the time of Enron and brownouts in California.”

(Picture courtesy of mjovery)

An energy kit was installed by Planetary Systems, plus a back-up power generator, and a windmill system to help out with the energy consumption.

he needs the power to run the following:

A 56-inch Samsung DLP
An InFocus IN76 projector
A Vonage phone setup
A Mac with EyeTV software
A PlayStation 3

Another article referenced is Living Off The Grid which talks about how this family manages to survive without all of the ammenities that the Mitchell’s have. The author of the article, and the individual who lives in this home notes,

“We have lived in our home in the woods for the past twelve years without electricity, running water or telephone. It has been an exciting experience.”

If you truly want to live off the grid and do it green, you should definitely check out the article. It truly tells you how this family lives in all aspects of the infrastructure of their lives- from how their house is heated, to how they get water, etc.

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July 21, 2007 No Comments

Spirit

DANGER from the Grid

Stoate: fear of frying

Britain edged closer to a ban on house building near high voltage power lines THREE YEARS after it was first announced by the government that this could cause health risks to children.