As Australian solar fans considered what the new year will bring in respect of solar energy, news arrived from over the seas of a spectacular bet on solar from one of the world’s richest men. I’m talking of Warren Buffett, the man considered one of the wisest investors in the land (he’s not known as […]
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Ford made headlines last week when it unveiled plans to make mass-produced solar-powered cars a reality with the C-Max Solar Energi. The reality is fully solar vehicles have been around for decades. Alabama University Professor Ed Passerini built the “Bluebird,” a prototype solar call with no back-up batteries, in 1977. Since the 80s, teams of university […]
SingTel Optus says its satellites are safe from being sizzled by one of the biggest solar flares to erupt from the sun in the past 10 years on Friday. The giant sun spot AR1944 is a powerful burst of radiation that NASA says is seven times the width of earth. While humans are protected by […]
The Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern Gets A Colourful Follow-Up | Gizmodo Australia. What was originally conceived as a cheap rechargeable LED light for parts of the world where the power grid wasn’t reliable, turned out to be a huge hit with consumers all over the world after it was unveiled at CES last year. So this year […]
Over a five-year trial, the desert community of just over 25,000 solved many of its energy problems and says the rest of the country could learn from it. Alice Springs was one of seven cities taking part in the federal government’s $97 million Solar Cities Program, which ran from March 2008 to June this year. […]
Solar Accreditation – Responsibilities of system designers. provide full specifications of the system including quantity, make and model number of the solar modules and inverter provide a site-specific full system design including all shading issues, orientation and tilt, along with the system’s site-specific energy yield, including average daily performance estimate in kWh for each month […]
Along with the Victorian Council of Social Service and with the support of the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, the ATA is publishing a guide to energy efficiency on a budget. Laura McLeod gives us a preview. With energy prices set to rise considerably over the next few years, now is the time to seriously […]
POWER bills in Queensland are set to surge by an average of $270, with most of the slug caused by green schemes, including the carbon tax. The Queensland Competition Authority will today recommend a 13.5 per cent increase to prices in its draft determination for 2014-15 via Queensland households to cop shock $270 power bill […]
