I’d been toying with thoughts of my Shirecliffe Hub and spoke being a kind of Wicker Man (geddit?) and so while checking the various interpretations of the Colossus of Rhodes and more modern interpretations like the Angel Of The North. Today I came across an...
Zenith Solar have launched their new installation in Israel – it’s an amazing technology for the right location and there is talk that the array in the Negev desert could soon supply 20% of Israel’s electricity from units which are scalable and track...
I just heard an interesting piece on Radio 4’s More Or Less with Tim Harford. David MacKaye of Cambridge University was talking about his book – Sustainable Energy – Without The Hot Air that deals with a mathematical analysis of the joys of the...
We’re running a few online surveys on the merits of solar PV. Here are the questions: 1. What are your thoughts on solar generated electricity as opposed to wind (on shore / off-shore) and tidal. 2. What sort of payback period would you consider reasonable? Is...
House builders woes never seem to end. Initially they were forced to go into hibernation in an effort to conserve cash as demand dropped. Some companies like Persimmon actually suspended all construction work regardless of what stage work was at. This saw the sites...
So just where can we install our PV arrays? The first consideration is that they should be at or adjacent to the point of need. It doesn’t matter if that need is a house, a factory a distribution warehouse or even an airport or car park. Next we need to take...
