Useful. Gotta keep that beer fridge running. I wonder how efficient that would be as a means of generating power. It also looks a lot easier than this, a peddle powered washing machine.
Showing posts with label power supply options. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power supply options. Show all posts
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Fleet of Toyota Prius to Power Neighbourhoods?
As we head into the summer season here in South Australia and the potential for more all too frequent blackouts, the hybrid car may have a use as a backup energy supply for your home. Recently, when tropical storms resulted in a power outage in Florida, enterprising hybrid owners plugged the car into the backup uninterruptible power supply in their homes to get the electricity up and running. As long as the car has fuel, it can produce about three kilowatts of continuous power, enough to keep the refrigerator running and the lights on in the average house.
Useful. Gotta keep that beer fridge running. I wonder how efficient that would be as a means of generating power. It also looks a lot easier than this, a peddle powered washing machine.
Useful. Gotta keep that beer fridge running. I wonder how efficient that would be as a means of generating power. It also looks a lot easier than this, a peddle powered washing machine.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
More Varied Power Mix Essential for Australian Energy Future
From The Age
Australias energy future is likely to include a wider variety of energy sources, especially if a carbon trading scheme is to go ahead. Australia is one of the best positioned countries for a stable energy future, with a mixture of energy options, including 600 years of brown coal reserves. Although sustainable sources such as hot rocks geothermal, wind and solar energy are significantly more expensive per kilowatt hour and don't supply a base load, they are increasingly likely to be a larger part of the mix, with operating costs likely to dramatically reduce in the next two decades.
There seems to be an assumption from the generators that nuclear power will be part of the mix, with the assertion by the power generators that all their modelled options were cheaper with an element of nuclear power generation capacity, although most Australians are strongly opposed.
All the modelled scenarios suggest energy is going to cost a lot more in the coming decades.
Australias energy future is likely to include a wider variety of energy sources, especially if a carbon trading scheme is to go ahead. Australia is one of the best positioned countries for a stable energy future, with a mixture of energy options, including 600 years of brown coal reserves. Although sustainable sources such as hot rocks geothermal, wind and solar energy are significantly more expensive per kilowatt hour and don't supply a base load, they are increasingly likely to be a larger part of the mix, with operating costs likely to dramatically reduce in the next two decades.
There seems to be an assumption from the generators that nuclear power will be part of the mix, with the assertion by the power generators that all their modelled options were cheaper with an element of nuclear power generation capacity, although most Australians are strongly opposed.
All the modelled scenarios suggest energy is going to cost a lot more in the coming decades.
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