Energy - The Greeny Flat Experience

Jun 28, 2015: Greeny Flat Welcomes Sustainable Lifestyle

Andy explains the Greeny Flat to the Southern Highlands Sustainable Lifestyle Organisation on Sunday

Today we had a very enjoyable visit from the Southern Highlands Sustainable Lifestyle Organisation. It is always a pleasure showing the Greeny Flat to people who are interested and knowledgeable in the field of energy efficient and sustainable building. […]

Jun 14, 2015: Test Drive the Greeny Flat

The Greeny Flat is sunny and cosy and may be available for a ‘test drive’ in July and August.

Would you be interested in ‘Test Diving’ the Greeny Flat?

Cintia and I will be away between July 18th and September 1st so we’re thinking about making the Greeny Flat available for people to […]

May 31, 2015: Exciting Times!

What an exciting week it has been! As if a visit to the Tesla showroom in Sydney wasn’t enough, there have been a number of articles in the mainstream media that signal a fundamental shift in the global (and Australian) energy future.

Saudi Arabia to go Renewable

When the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, […]

May 17, 2015: DIY Solar Air Heater Prototype

A while ago my sister, Cate, told me that she was getting quotes for a Solar Air Heater to add on to her house in Canberra. The basic idea is to use a flat-plate solar collector to heat air which is then pumped into the house during sunny winter days to a) provide fresh air […]

May 10, 2015: K.I.S.S. My House

In last week’s Newsletter we discussed the potential for the Tesla ‘Powerwall’ to revolutionise the way we think about, produce, use and store energy. Since then there has been a flurry of media commentary about Tesla’s ‘big announcement’, much of it positive and some negative. The nay-sayers claim that there won’t be much of a […]

May 3rd, 2015: Tesla Reinvents Electicity

Nikola Tesla did not invent electricity but he certainly played a major role in the mankind’s efforts to produce and use the stuff. At various times he has been called ‘the father of radio, television, power transmission, the induction motor, and the robot, and the discoverer of the cosmic ray’. No wonder Elon Musk chose […]

Apr 26, 2015: Party Pics and Random Bits.

Our 1st Earth Day Party was a fun and encouraging event.

Thanks to everyone who came along to our 1st Earth Day Party on Wednesday evening to help us celebrate the outstanding success of the first year of the Greeny Flat Experiment. We had about fifty people come through which, considering the amount […]

Apr 19, 2015: Greeny Flat’s 1st Earth Day Party this week

We started monitoring the performance of the Greeny Flat on Earth Day (April 22nd) last year hoping that we could make more energy than we used over a full year. This Wednesday will be Earth Day 2015 and, at the end of our first year, we will have exported to the grid almost FOUR […]

Apr 12, 2015: Sand Wars, Floating Solar Farms and other Fun Stuff.

Sand Wars… (not the happy, summer, beach kind).

For those of us who are concerned about the impacts our building choices have on people and the planet, there are so many things that we just don’t think about or hear about. Here’s a new one… a friend from the states just sent me this article […]

Apr 4, 2015: UK’s First Carbon Neutral Town

While Australia bumbles along under the mismanagement of our various governments, falling further and further behind the rest of the world in taking action to create a better future, there are exciting things happening on the other side of the globe. As I mentioned in our Newsletter on Dec 14, 2014, the conservative government in […]

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