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Renewable Energy Reduces Living Costs

Background The optimal energy mix in Australia has been vigorously debated in Parliament late this year, delivering vastly different proposals. Labor proposes a heavy reliance on renewables, and the coalition proposes a combination of fossil fuels eventually augmented with seven nuclear plants scattered around five states. Another, closely related, ongoing debate concerns whether Australia isContinue reading “Renewable Energy Reduces Living Costs”

A heat pump solution

Showers powered by the sun are delightful and the energy cost savings are significant. Sadly, our roof-mounted solar hot water system must come down. While the body corporate has not passed a by-law to prevent the installation of solar hot water systems, our motion to ratify our installed system was unsuccessful. At an extraordinary generalContinue reading “A heat pump solution”