I was reading a paper about emissions trading in Thailand recently, and noted that the preferred option for an Emissions Trading Scheme is based on equivalent tonnage of oil energy output rather than equivalent emission of Green House Gasses. In …
Redshift Wireless have decided to enter into the HACKAGONG weekend product development competition in Wollongong on November 29-30. The idea is that you go into the event with basically nothing on the Saturday morning and come out with a working …
There is a product from Google called the Nest Controller. This might be a great product, but it has a number of issues. These issues means that it is ideal for Google, but it also allows companies like Redshift Wireless …
There is an interesting article in this weeks New Zealand Herald talking about how inefficient open fires are going to be banned in Auckland. As someone involved with helping people save money and clean up the environment, I think this …
Over the past few weeks I have been listening to a rather interesting Podcast on the Electronics industry, called The Amp Hour – Keeping Current. It is put together by Dave Jones from the EEVblog here in Sydney Australia, and …
The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about manipulation of prices within the electricity industry. The exact details are rather hard to understand, but from what I can determine, data was manipulated to justify the maximum possible price rises to …
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I have been working with one of my clients on Solar Power, and as part of this looked at their Solar Portal in order to verify the data. This data came from an Aurora Solar Inverter, which has been purchased …
It has been said that many Air Conditioners and Heaters have two settings – Too Hot and Too Cold. For some reason it seems impossible to please everyone in business with the right temperature. There seem to be three reasons …
This is a photo I took during the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. It shows the video link from a helicopter camera hovering over the Olympic Stadium. If you look at the TV screen you can actually see the …
In the last couple of weeks, there have been problems in Auckland, New Zealand thanks to a substation fire. It was bad enough for power to thousands of households to have been turned off for multiple days. The good news …