Energy Systems
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Hey! It’s High Cold Dry and Windy and Doing just Great!
Every now and then you come across climate that is not so user-friendly. It’s in the High, Dry and Cold…
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SMART Permaculture in South Ethiopia (Part 2)
This will all make a lot more sense if you’ve read part 1 of this article. But anyway, to cut…
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Finding Water in the Desert
We were recently filming in Nevada, USA, visiting interesting high dry and cold climate systems. We went out in search…
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A Canadian Rocket Stove Powered Greenhouse
How does Permaculture function in cold climate latitudes? Recently Geoff Lawton and his crew visited engineers Rob and Michelle Avis…
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China is World’s Leading Renewable Superpower
Top in investment, installed capacity and generation, and moving away from fossil fuels; in contrast to the USA. by Dr…
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China’s Solar Panel Production to Double by 2017
by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute China installed a world record amount of solar photovoltaics (PV) capacity in 2013.…
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Earthworker – Australia’s First Worker-Owned Green Manufacturing Cooperative
The Earthworker Cooperative is a community-led initiative addressing two significant problems; the stark reality of climate change, and a lack…
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Wave Carpet – Harnessing Wave Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWnY-XFihVQ Professor Reza Alam and his PhD students in Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, are testing out a…
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Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power
by J. Matthew Roney Denmark produced one third of its electricity from the wind in 2013. In no other country…
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Solar Tyre Cooker
Sketch showing the solar tyre cooker With relatively inexpensive materials and easy to construct, a solar tyre cooker can be…
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The Multi Bioregion Earthship
Adaptation – any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from…
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Zeer Pot: Demonstration of Its Effectiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNLPeb3qIhc A Zeer Pot – Off Grid Refrigeration (Duration 5:36 minutes) A zeer pot is an ancient device used to…
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