Tag Archives: thermal

Smart Power Grid

Smart Power Grid awareness will cause us to use our energy at the least expensive times of the day, thereby reducing energy costs and reducing the load on our power plants during the peak periods. At the same time we will reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere, positively affecting  our contribution to Greenhouse gases.

PV Panels Efficiency

Retired academic and author Peter Little describes in a letter below how we can use green building products such as  PV panels and insulation between double brick construction to greatest efficacy by adopting Smart Power Grid  behaviour.

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Renewable energy – latest advances in research

Solar energy studies were my strong interest as a student architect in the late 1960s.  Later, after my architectural degree a combination of engineering and science studies between the years 1977 – 1993 convinced me that the use of solar energy would be a major challenge for my generation.

Need to overcome the status quo

In order to hand over a functioning sustainable world for the next generations it has been obvious to me  that we need to overcome the ultra conservative forces and vested interests who see change as the enemy and will do just about anything to maintain the status quo.

Over the last 100 hundred years, energy generation in Australia has mainly been tied to the multi-national companies using coal, oil and gas.  The recent campaign by nuclear is now expanding the multi-national corporation involvement potentially to uranium, albeit to a lesser extent.

Australian Sustainable Energy Society  – Canberra National Conference December 2010

At the AuSES 2010 conference, I was delighted to hear about the latest advances in research and development of renewable energy sources and the dramatic progress being made.

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