As part of our Energy Descent Plan we’re trying to progressively reduce our energy consumption – fuel for the car, electricity and gas in the house. This’ll save us significant money but also will reduce our carbon footprint and dependance on Fossil Fuels.
The first thing is to work out how much energy we’re using, and [...]
Archive for July, 2009
31 Jul
How much energy does your car use?
25 Jul
Our Rainwater Harvesting system (v1)
Current Capacity: about 2 litres, I think we can do better!
No, seriously, this is the only thing collecting water from the house at the moment. A single plastic jug under one of the downpipes. It’s a little below the 6,000l capacity I’ve been planning in my thoughts on Rainwater Tanks.
(The rocks were kindly donated [...]
23 Jul
OK, we’re in!
Finally, after several months of back-n-forth we are in our new house – expect some renewed action as we start to make some progress on all these wonderfull things we’ve been talking about – and the first figures for our Energy Descent plan are due at the end of the month.
