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Cost Benefit Analysis for Windsave system
Mark Brinkley has bought a domestic wind turbine. If you don’t know who Mark is, he is author of cult self-build manual ‘The Housebuilder’s Bible’. I couldn’t resist running the numbers Windsave quote...
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The CSE (Centre for Sustainable Energy) have quite a few new documents on wind power available at their website here. Delivering Community Benefits from Wind Energy Development: A Toolkit looks a...
View ArticleBacklash against turbines
 I wrote this back in December last year and for the life of me I can’t remember what else I was going to add to it. It’s mostly all been said now, but the most interesting tidbit (which is why I’m...
View ArticleInteractive map of UK renewable energy locations
Since August 2006 this resource has been available and I failed to mention it until now. http://maps.restats.org.uk From the press release: The collection of renewable energy statistics – began in...
View ArticleBRE confirm micro-turbines not best suited to urban sites
BRE have just issued ’Micro-wind turbines in urban environments: an assessment’ (BRE Trust report FB17, ISBN 978-1-84806-021-0) and although I haven’t managed to get a copy myself the Guardian have...
View ArticlePVSYST 4.21 – software for PV design
This has been sitting in my del.icio.us inbox since April 2006.  I can’t remember where I found the link originally.  PVSYST 4.21 is a PC software package for the study, sizing, simulation and...
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Chelker reservoir wind turbines
Firstly, let me recommend a new (to me) blog from the Construction Journal camp (who use Movable Type rather than WordPress, but I won’t hold that against them) – The Greenhouse by Paul Howard. We’ve...
View ArticleAudacious kite powered electricity generation
Thanks to whoever alerted me to this great, short TED video. The goal is to harness wind power at 1,000 – 15,000m in the troposhere (much above where wind turbines currently operate). Which reminds me,...
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Waste to energy for London
Last month saw the issue of the report ‘Where there’s muck, there’s brass‘ (pdf, 34 pages) from the London Assembly. Waste to energy is a topic which remains on periphery of many building services...
View ArticleAir Source Heat Pumps – carbon friend or foe?
Looking back through the archives I seem to have been remiss and never written properly on the topic of ASHP (air source heat pumps). A topic dear to my heart as it exemplifies the quandaries that we...
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