Earth Notes Basic Feed

Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% "off-grid" solar PV, batteries definitely included!

A short summary of errors in Damon's formal papers #research #researchIntegrity #openScience

What is the water, energy and carbon cost of keeping clean?

Tech updates: Export Margin...

Solar hot water #solar #PV #DHW

Sow in April, reap in September, get soup and pie and roast seeds too!

Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work?

16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows.

Cuts bills and footprint, educates children, and makes good use of roof space!

Meter readings at home #allElectric #fossilFree

Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year!

Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer.

Learn just these three simple money-saving tricks that can make you slimmer and richer!

Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed...

Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken!

Learn about some tools helpful when considering/designing a solar PV or thermal system for the UK.

Low-carbon heating at home with solar diversion and storage and heat pump.

A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter.

Housing exhibition, and asset management and maintenance exhibition.

Green the grid, and help off-grid users too, with a simple laptop, tablet and phone tweak or two.

Meter readings at home.

Should you consider serious electricity storage at the household level, behind the meter?

Are you as green as you eat?

Observations of bat activity at the bridge over many years #bat #Chiroptera #dataset

More mainly evening observations from around and about 16WW.

Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas?

A continuing summary of Damon's research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit.

A few minutes of soundscape from a busy microbrewery doing its thing!

Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home!

Climate cost of bad feed handling #RSS #podcast #Podbean #Spotify #Google #Apple

Read how I attempted to move 10% of our mid-winter home electricity demand off-grid...

How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack!

CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y 2009 to 2026.

Uncool: pointless misbehaviour that endangers the climate and benefits no one!

Find out how to get a job run, minimise energy in and CO2 out, and even allow a move off-grid...

Does it do what it says on the tin?

GB (Scotland/England/Wales) grid carbon intensity (gCO2/kWh2) as computed from FUELINST data live multiple times per hour.

High-frequency (per-minute) grid-tied generation stats for 16WW roof-mounted 5.16kWp solar PV.

Open for research home #dataset

Top-up limit from grid (and diversion of PV) to heat-battery.

Via quote and survey and negotiation to keeping us warm fossil-free #heatPump #DHW #spaceHeat #defossilisation

Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint.

Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med!

Learn how plug-in solar curtain linings could trim your home power bill and footprint...

Archived and additional links, videos, and older material from yesteryear.

General public bibliography for EOU and related research.

From Pint-of-Science public talk to academic paper; derivatives and heat-pump load profiles.

A journey of 1000 miles begins with 1 step; not to a car please!

Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London?

Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas...