Posts Tagged ‘offbeat’
Solar PV (UK Scotland) Red-tape
Recently I blogged about the go-ahead/green light for my domestic PV. However, the red-tape game needs to be played to get the best financial score. Obtaining the grant and interest free loan is the basic objective. To get these requires a sterling dose of resolve and committment. Here is a tongue-in-cheek list of fences to […]
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Showertime II : Teenage Solution
I love it. Stumbled over this old article which is brill and hits the spot on my favourite genre ‘teenage-tough-love’. http://cluttercut.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-get-your-teenagers-out-of.html But hey, energy saving wise for those of you with a fastidious teenager (or more) it’s a cracker of a practical energy saving solution. So if your cherished one(s) have a personal hygiene addiction […]
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iPad another Flash-less browser
Hopeless, but predictable…….. Apple’s new iPad looks very very desirable for every gadget-man out there, but fortunately Apple’s tactical stubbornness means my wallets stays closed. No sale for me. Don’t worry I have already ranted before about how rubbish the iPod Touch browser is, because by deliberate design it does provide support for Abobe Flash. […]
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Tags: flash, offbeat
Kettle Interview
(Look like with a rash of kettle postings this week, sorry folks) Pondering….. isn’t it funny how much time you spend on some of life’s purchases and how little on others. Well, a good kettle is something that you bond with, and for tea-jennies like us, the loss of a kettle is slightly mournful, but […]
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Kettle-omics Analytics
It’s amazing how much ‘information’ is trapped inside a log of electricity power readings, even more so if the data has a detailed time resolution stored away in some database. Question time: How much energy is our kettle using ? How many tea breaks do you have ? (let’s not infer the toilet trips) How […]
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Noisy in bed ?
Overall I am a solid fan of these energy saving lamps (CFL). Until recently I have never experienced in the home the industrial buzzing noises of the old strip-light tube magnetic ballasts. But there is only one place when a lamp is next to my ear. It’s a bed side lamp using a 7w CFL […]
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ALOT ! Phew, the days holding a spare 100w incandescent bulb under the kitchen sink are long gone. So how many types of bulbs do you need nowadays ? Here’s a short list I started but never finished,…… GU10 50w, 20w halogen GU10 11w megaman G9 50w halogen capsule G9 11w megaman T5 and T8 […]
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I love this article on ‘solar air heaters’ here are some site links. http://sites.google.com/site/mysticsolar/Home/how-it-was-made-2 http://www.theselfrelianthome.com/articles/20/solar-air-heaters I reckon I should take feather out these guy’s practical can-do caps. Instead of googling, reviewing, shopping, why not just make your own and have fun drinking beer cans. It’s a perfect re-cycling project and it works. What is it […]
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Tags: diy, Energy Saving, offbeat
Cheating
As ever, some people just take it too far and get a bit too competitive, although I have yet to meet an energy cheater yet. Here’s what some cheaters (would) get up saving energy, all no-no’s in my book. The unspeakable illegal connection Live forever in the pub/church/friends house Never open the fridge Lounge Duvet […]
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Sporting TeamWork-WorkFlow
Nice use of an elegant workflow application, so what does it do ? In essence, helps get sporting teams together, ideal to streamline the headache of pulling amateur cricket, rugby, hockey….. teams together to face the opposition. Have a look at clubhouseapp they explain and showcase it very well as well …. and most of […]
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I love my wood-burner
Strange the things you emotionally bond with, sometimes clothes or a favourite sneakers etc. But hey, I’m a caveman and this baby lights my fire ! Seriously though, there is something primeval programmed into the human DNA that has a fascination with a real flaming fire, probably because it helped many of our successful ancestors […]
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What a great speaker, what a great presentation. As you can tell I really did enjoy listening to Hans Rosling. Anyone who make statistics so exciting is superhuman in my book ! Check it out here at the http://www.TED.com site. Or find out more at http://www.gapminder.org who have lots of statistics to present on video […]
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Tags: offbeat, visualisation
Whilst reading my GMail some side ‘ad’ sucked me in or conned me into looking at a little recharger for handling or rather regenerating standard alkaline batteries. At just that moment I also had an massive pyramid pile of spent batteries decorating my desk waiting for disposal. I think the idea is to very slowly […]
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