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Jason, Kat and Caitlin talk household renewable energy news. Billionaires! Wibble-wobbly power generating poles! Houses divorcing from totalitarian government grids! It's all happening.
We promise that Tesla didn't pay us for this gushing review of their new Powerwall battery.
Notes/ corrections: a 3 to 4 person house in WA uses about 17 to 20 kWhrs per day.
The Powerwall comes in a 7 kWh daily cycle model.
The wind poles are the Bladeless wind-generator prototype from Vortex.
Sharp demands on power stations are created when there are sudden unexpected changes reducing renewable energy output, such as wind speeds dropping or cloud crossing the sun. More information here:
http://www.horizonpower.com.au/renewable_energy_how_works.html
Aired on Radio Goolarri, 11th May 2015.
Edited; version to air contained RET news that is now out of date. |