December 2009
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Panasonic Home Lithium Storage Battery Can Power... →
Seems just the thing to smooth out renewable’s, still waiting for a price. I can see them being way out of my price range for at least a few more years [via Global Guerrillas]
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LED backlit bookshelves
By The very cool JohnGreenaway Latest home hack: backlit bookshelves. LED lighting threaded through the backs of 3 Billy Bookcases. Low power
Dec 16th
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Using MMOs to learn Permaculture →
Unfortunately, the current state of software that aids the design of permaculture plots is pretty dismal. The real opportunity is to build a learning system via software, one that naturally trains the people that use it, gets better and more sophisticated over time, and is fun. The only way I know how to do that is build a game. Being an ex-game coder this is a really interesting idea and...
Dec 14th
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Does It Make Sense to Grow Food Indoors? →
[via good.is]
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Vertical Gardens on metafilter →
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LEED Certified Buildings Not Always Saving Energy →
some LEED rated buildings, particularly the ones at the lowest end of the LEED scale, particularly the ones that got certified when the LEED rating was young, aren’t saving energy.
Dec 12th
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Window Farmers on Metafilter →
and it seem they have a kickstarter project to producing kits that make windowfarming more accessible to a greater variety of peopl.
Dec 6th
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LED Bulbs Save Substantial Energy →
A standard incandescent bulb over its life will use almost five times the energy of an LED bulb, a German study concluded. [via hacker news]
Dec 1st
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Solar panel costs 'set to fall'  →
Interesting that they think it that grid parity (The point when it is as cheap for someone to generate power on their homes as it is to buy it from the grid) maybe here by 2030 even for cloudy northern countries like the UK. I wonder how much of that will be gas and oil getting more expensive and how much photvoltatics becoming cheaper.
Dec 1st
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Hydro-electricity in Wales →
Farmers using micro-generation to make around 90% of the power they use.
Dec 1st