Archive › September, 2011

Sunny Days for Solar Overseas

We’re seldom short of solar news from around Australia to bring you in these turbulent times for clean energy. Today, however, we’re bringing you solar news from elsewhere on this lovely planet of ours. First to the UK: construction has recently been completed on the UK’s largest solar power plant. Completed in an impressively tight [...]

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Hacking the Current Cost EnviR Energy Monitor

We always keep our eye out for how our customers have used the Current Cost EnviR Energy Monitor… … here is a selection of some ‘hacks’   Battery Powered ENVI How to build a battery pack to power the ENVI (we do not recommend this, and doing this will void your warranty… but then we [...]

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How much does it cost to… charge my laptop overnight

Here is our third video using the Current Cost EnviR Energy monitor to measure different appliances and see how much they cost us. We ask the question: “How much does it cost to charge my laptop if I leave it charging overnight?” Have you any idea? ALSO WATCH THE VIDEO TO GET A $10 COUPON [...]

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Solar Power to Undercut Coal?

An interesting article here http://my.enewsplus.co.uk/cm/public/enews/index.php?enewsid=4&templateid=90&ticketid=PD4OJR2LIN&mm=3963 from the All Energy Team Australia’s reluctance to embrace solar power could well change dramatically over the next 20 years even without a carbon tax. Due to the massive leaps that China is making at the moment in production and the reduction in cost of solar panels, it might not [...]

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