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FACTS: Energy Efficiency versus Nuclear
Let's face it, most of our energy usage today isn't that smart, at a time in history where we have more energy than ever before, we still don't have enough! The old school way of...
SEGMETER: Helping buildings work better
Lately we have been doing a bit of work measuring energy in large buildings and complex sites. Often these are places where there are building management systems that preform many of the low level functions...
FACTS: Generating electricity the hard way
During the recent Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, the Smart Energy team got a chance to check out the Future Spark pedal power demonstration. This is a remarkable piece of engineering, and I had the...
INSIDE MY HOME: The simplest thing to save lots of energy
We all love a hot shower, and a god many of our water heaters are of the bad old single element energy hog, and if you have one of these units, there is a very...
FACTS: Why electricity will continue to become more expensive
Forget the cost of carbon, the cost of energy is going up, wether we like it or not. In Melbourne, it's been 50% since 2006 and the utilities predict another 50% by 2015 2010 has...