Rain, grey skies and Eurovision. This weekends project was to decorate the living room. It has now become a major construction project. Shelves, a desk, new door surround, repainting and a new floor.
While looking at flooring I noticed that there is now a lot of bamboo options available. Half the price of oak and fast growing (so probably more sustainable). I think this is what we are going with.
Our holiday this year is sailing in the Ionian of the North Corfu around the faraway islands. The original plan was to travel there by train. Both for the adventure and to reduce our carbon footprint. Train through Albania and Greece proved too difficult to pre-book so we decided to take a ferry from Venice to Greece. Train tickets from Paris to Venice only become available 90 days before travel. When we attempted to book (89 days before travel) the return journey the tickets were sold out so now we are going by train and ferry and returning by ferry, air and train.
Saturday 29 May 2010
Thursday 6 May 2010
First Installation
Having waited and waited for an accepted quote to lead to an installation, finally it happened today. A solar PV installation. Now hurrying around to make sure that everything is in place for monitoring it's output live.
On 20th April, our first live monitored site was commissioned. Powis Hughes finally have a 6kW wind turbine up and running. The monitoring software has had a few issues but seems to be running nicely now. As I look at their RenSMART page now, I see that they have made about £90 so far. Only another 7 years to go and they will have their initial investment back.
Yesterday was spend uploading and annotating a couple of videos on how to use RenSMART Weather Data maps. You can find them on the RenSMART video page. They look good so I think I'll probably do a couple more.
Finally I have to look at going back to contracting for a while to get some funds. As Helen reminds me, I should not expect a profitable business after one months trading :-). That is why I am back blogging. It is my CV and agent avoidance plan :-)
On 20th April, our first live monitored site was commissioned. Powis Hughes finally have a 6kW wind turbine up and running. The monitoring software has had a few issues but seems to be running nicely now. As I look at their RenSMART page now, I see that they have made about £90 so far. Only another 7 years to go and they will have their initial investment back.
Yesterday was spend uploading and annotating a couple of videos on how to use RenSMART Weather Data maps. You can find them on the RenSMART video page. They look good so I think I'll probably do a couple more.
Finally I have to look at going back to contracting for a while to get some funds. As Helen reminds me, I should not expect a profitable business after one months trading :-). That is why I am back blogging. It is my CV and agent avoidance plan :-)
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