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Turning our homes into power stations

simon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:13:52 +0000

Just saw this from the Metro in London - microgeneration going mainstream ?

'Make every building a power station.' That was the demand issued by a group of environmental and economics experts a fortnight ago when they came out with their Green New Deal.

It doesn't mean installing a steam turbine in your living room; microgeneration, or making your own energy, for decades the realm of long-haired families with glazed expressions, is stepping out of the fringes.

Ourcar - our new electric car?

simon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:27:37 +0000

A few of the Ourpower team got to test drive a new electric car earlier this week in London. The NICE Car Company very kindly picked us up at Kings Cross station and we drove around North London a bit before heading back down to Euston where we then caught our train up north...

We were very impressed - 50 mph top speed with a range of around 50 miles. 2p/mile to charge - 1.5 hours to charge 25% - 8 hours full charge. Clean, quite and efficient - what more do you want?

I can see electric cars taking off in a very big way - we think we'll wait will December when they are launching a 5 seater family electric car with longer range and a higher top speed.

Microgeneration could rival nuclear power, report shows

simon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:32:06 +0000

Microgeneration could rival nuclear power, report shows

E-Day - quick...turn everything off

patrickadmin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:53:33 +0000

Today is E-Day, E-Daywhen we should all be turning off as many electricity-hungry appliances as possible. Its a great idea - lets see what a difference it would make if we all tried for a day.

Green IT - marketing man's bandwagon?

patrickadmin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:49:52 +0000

Do we believe in Green IT?old car

Can IT management buy low energy IT resources and make a difference? Or is this just hype?

Smart meters - sanctioned with official 'experiment'

patrickadmin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:42:15 +0000

Wattson - diykyotoThere has been a further announcement regarding the Government sanctioned trial of various types of smart meters. You can read the latest here.

Baby steps to personal carbon limits

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:59:37 +0000

CO2 Calculator
Slowly does it.Yesterday, David Milliband launched the government's new personal CO2 footprint calculator.

Oil Shock!

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:37:50 +0000

A friend of Ourpower's - David Strahan - recently published his latest book - 'The Last Oil Shock'. Check out his website at www.davidstrahan.com

Microgeneration - who's going to make it happen?

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:49:12 +0000

"In the US, 61% of the housing stock is detached. If the owners of just 10% of these 70 million houses installed a single kilowatt of energy generation capacity, up to 7 Gigawatts of energy demand would be removed from the grid

Ourpower Blog

Turning our homes into power stations

Ourcar - our new *electric* car?

Microgeneration could rival nuclear power, report shows

E-Day - quick...turn everything off

Green IT - marketing man's bandwagon?

Smart meters - sanctioned with official 'experiment'

Baby steps to personal carbon limits

Oil Shock!

Microgeneration - who's going to make it happen?

Ourcar - our new electric car?