where eagles fear to perch

Recent additions - electrical heater box and growlight panel, both on test I've put this on a separate post to my original , becau...

This is following on from my recent post on the greenhouse solar installation. To use any excess panel energy available during the cool...

We decided it would be good to have some electrical power in the greenhouse, primarily for growlights and at least one of our electric...

It's that time again...   As of this evening, we now have exactly two full years' worth of data from our experimental 540 Wp sola...

With electricity prices becoming increasingly expensive, and likely to continue to rise way above inflation, we recently concluded a seven-...

We finally bit the bullet and ordered one of those cross-handled briquette machines from the internet.  Despite my whinge last year about t...

A couple of months ago, I noticed the wind turbine had stopped producing electrical energy and so I took it down and had a good look at it....

Electricity prices are going up – that much you already know from your bills.   You'd think the only option is to use less of the stu...

As part of my mini CHP project - more on that in a future post when it's a little further advanced - I bought an old petrol-driven gene...

We now have one full year's worth of operational data from our five-panel experimental array, rated at 540 Watt-peak (Wp) in total. S...

I still see people on eBay bidding hundreds of pounds for 300W domestic wind turbines.   Some of the sales sites use terms such as '.....

Firstly, my apologies for what is quite a long post without any pictures to break up the text....one of the advantages of writing this bl...

Like most households, the amount of paper regularly pushed through our letterbox is astounding.     Every week, we receive reams of local...

Earlier this year, we decided to have a go at making our own solar panels.    It's very much a small and experimental array to check ou...

Our home is fitted with a ten-year old Worcester 15/19 oil-fired combination boiler which provides the heating and hot water.   Where we...