April 29, 2011
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Vodafone is set to announce it will build one of Africa’s greenest commercial buildings as a base for testing new ways of using renewable energy across its global network.
Based in Midrand, South Africa, the innovation centre will examine how the company can reduce carbon emissions through the use of renewable energy, as well as batteries. The centre will also look at how to reduce the running and deployment cost of base station sites. Findings will be shared across the Vodafone group.…
Ah, the irony. In San Andreas, CA, atop a possible earthquake of cataclysmic proportions, the town is adopting the latest distributed power generation technologies.
Someday soon, fuels from forests in this area south-east of Sacramento may power water plants, schools and even private businesses.
Bob Dean, a member of the board of directors of the Calaveras County Water District,has proposed portable cogeneration plants to both generate electricity and allow for more efficient use of wood-chip waste generated as local forests are thinned.…
Bill requiring state to recognize gold and silver coins issued by the federal government as legal tender awaits Governor’s signature…
The demand for mobile phone services has outstripped grid-bound electricity supply in 32 countries…
One Florida family has bought an old chicken coop in West Virginia as an off-grid bolt hole fearing solar storms that could do twenty times more damage than hurricane Katrina…
With Queensland’s capital Brisbane devastated in the Australian floods, householders are learning the disadvantages of grid tied solar.
Tron star Flynn (Jeff Bridges) at a safe house off the Grid, dressed in white and meditating.…
Patrick Jones, an attorney representing Kay Phaneuf’s family, said he expects to file against the utility soon…
“I sleep in a tree all summer long,” Baez said 2008. “I climb up on a ladder, with ropes and things. The birds are right there in the morning. Sometimes they’re flying so close to my head, I can feel the wind.”…
Off-Grid.net predicted years ago that the wedding of William and Katie Middleton would finally be announced. This settles, amongst other things, the future of the $10m Herefordshire eco-palace that Prince Charles has been preparing for the happy couple.
We first reported it in 2006. An old sandstone quarry had been re-opened within the estate as a so urce of stone. Oak was sourced from the Duchy’s Herefordshire woodlands, and natural slates for the roofs from Wales. An on-site eco-sewage works will filter waste through a bed of reeds.…