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I’ve added a new link to the Building for a future magazine on the Useful links page

Written by ashleys on August 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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A true Solar Wind approach!

Now here is a project that will truly get solar wind working. A new project has begun in the Australian outback to build a huge tower that will capture the sun’s energy in a far more efficient way than conventional solar cells or windmills.

Now we normally separate solar and wind energy into two different things, however the reality is that wind is a result, if only an end result, of the power of the sun.  This new project is trying to build a solar tower that will link the solar and wind energy directly. The tower is huge, funnel shaped and made of clear plastic. As the sun heats the air inside the tunnel causing it to rise, the funnel shape causing the air to move faster and faster the narrower the funnel gets. The electricity is then generated by wind turbines housed in the top of the funnel.

When constructed sometime after 2006, the 3,280 foot Solar Tower will generate 200 megawatts. At a typical home consumption of one kilowatt, this will power 200,000 homes and reduce the annual production of greenhouse gases by nearly a megaton.

Read more at the dailyreckoning.co.uk

Written by ashleys on August 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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Carbon audits possible for UK households

Tony Blair has stated that individual households may be audited for the carbon emisions. Apparanlty the goverment was looking at the idea, with the idea that it would convince more people to take carbon-reducing measures in their own homes.  It alls sounds like political posturing to me, especially when he went on to say that how he had installed low energy light bulbs at Downing Street and turned the thermostate down by one degree. (In the middle of summer, hardly a big saving!) These are measures that a lot of people know about and even do already. 

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