Category: Conservation

  • Solar Power Growth – Part II

    International Energy Agency and Renewable Energy Predictions A sort of follow-up to my first post “Solar Power Growth” , I found this article from the International Energy Agency – IEA (2025), Renewables 2025, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2025, Licence: CC BY 4.0 In 2025, I paid to have a Grid-tied system installed on my home. I am…

  • Solar Power Growth

    This little chart I stole from a recent edition of “The Economist”   I’ll paste the article  below Or listen here:  https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/economist-podcasts/4046013 via @PodcastAddict THE SUN MACHINES NAIVE EXTRAPOLATION HAS TROUNCED SOBER FORECASTING AGAIN AND AGAIN The Economist (North America) APHOTOVOLTAIC CELL is a very simple thing: a square piece of silicon typically 182 millimetres on…

  • Make Your Own Silica Sand

    Make Your Own Silica Sand

    Make silica sand from glass using a chain mill.

  • Some E-Waste Links on the Internet

    I was just doing a little cruising on the internet and found a few sites that have some high-level, “global thinking” information on the ewaste / e-waste issues facing humanity. In no particular order: Electronics recycling is something I do at home here as an ecological hobby. I break down the components and then the…

  • Day Binning

    Real heroes save useful items from the trash every day. People with careers, investments and a desire to reduce waste poke their noses into garbage bins

  • Wimborne Current Weather Data

    An attempt to capture the current weather station data for archiving on my website.