An interesting factoid from Green Futures.
I was amazed when I first read it and did some quick calculations. We are lucky enough to have around 350 mature trees (mostly beech as it happens) in our plot here at Hedgerley. Some are growing quite close together, so I took 200 as a round number to be […]
I’ve been trying to get away from theoretical figures to see what impact PV on our roof could actually have.
I measured our electricity use for the last 24 hours. With seven of us here, the washing machine used a lot and a certain amount of heating as the day was colder, I expected the total […]
Last year our attempts to grow more of our food were neatly nipped in the bud by Peter Rabbit. So now I’ve decided the only way is to put up anti-rabbit and anti-deer fencing.
Hopefully it will be effective is protecting the seedlings I’ve just put in. Plus the marigolds - the result of half-remembered old […]
We went for the day with Devi, Matthew and Rosa to the Green Homes Show in Builth Wells. They were interested in wood-chip boilers, but were not altogether convinced.
I focused on the wind turbine stand by nextgenerationturbines.com. The one they were displaying looked pretty big to me.
In fact it was only 1.8 kW, which wouldn’t […]
After the disappointments about finding a place for a turbine with enough wind, I’ve starting thinking about solar again. One way or another I am determined to start making our own electricity to balance out the amount used by the heat pump and all our media work.
I had thought that the roof was too shaded […]