Renewable Energy

[Kim O'Hara]

Great work, Nemo, especially considering the climate you live in.


Kim

[Malcolm]

Great work, Nemo, especially considering the climate you live in.


Kim

The problem on the NorthEast Of The USin general is that upgrades to older homes are prohibitively expensive, especially in rural areas.

[Kim O'Hara]

Great work, Nemo, especially considering the climate you live in.


Kim

The problem on the NorthEast Of The USin general is that upgrades to older homes are prohibitively expensive, especially in rural areas.

Not just there, either. There are weatherboard (clapboard) homes all across southern Australia which are almost impossible to insulate. I lived in a succession of them as a child and younger adult and heating was a chronic difficulty for six months of the year.

Then I moved to the tropics and guess what? There are lots of the same kind of houses and they are just as difficult to cool for six months of the year. When they were built, airconditioning was unknown and the best you could do was open it to the breezes and install fans, and the fact that the house cooled down so quickly when the sun went down was an advantage. (Not a big advantage when the overnight low temps were in the mid-20s C, but the best that could be done.) Now, of course, people want their aircon and it costs an arm and a leg to run.


Kim

[Kim O'Hara]

Solar is a great match for schools: lots of roof space, usually not too much shade because there are playgrounds around the buildings, and virtually all consumption is during sunlight hours. Hence this:

Queensland fast-tracks school solar roll-out in bid to beat Covid blues

A Queensland government plan to install “virtual solar farm” across more than 800 state schools has been fast-tracked, as part of a plan to support industry through the post-Covid 19 economic downturn.

The Advancing Clean Energy School initiative, announced in February of this year, originally committed to a $71.1 million, four-year roll out of solar across 650 schools to defray the costs of installing air-conditioning in every public school classroom – a separate government initiative.

The Labor Palaszczuk government had aimed to install 26MW of solar capacity at hundreds of schools over three phases by mid-2022 and create an 1,000 jobs through in the installation of the solar systems.

Queensland’s minister for education and industrial relations, Grace Grace, said this week that with phase one well underway, work on an initial 210 state schools was nearing completion and “pumping out 11MW of power.”

Buoyed by this progress – and to support “valuable” renewables jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic – she said the government had decided to bring forward installs at an additional 80 state schools, originally set to benefit from future phases of the ACES program. ...

https://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/queens ... -recovery/


Kim

[Mirror]

What is the cause of high consumption? Is it unhappiness (self-cherishing, lack of love and compassion) or lack of wisdom (people don't understand impermanence so they're attached to worldly pleasures)? What do you think? What is your opinion?

Thank you