How Green Is Our House?

Whale Coast Conservation is not just talking green, we have gone green. Our new home on the R43, between Hawston and Vermont, called the Green House, is going green with sustainable off-grid technology.  We have 18 photovoltaic panels that produce most of our electricity, especially on sunny days. In addition there are 3 horizontal axis wind turbines on the roof and …

Home Sweet Lab

Computerized House to Generate as Much Energy as It Uses In a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much energy as it uses in a year. Following an initial year-long experiment, the …

Low Cost, High Efficiency Solar Technology Developed

Researchers at RTI International have developed a new solar technology that could make solar energy more affordable, and thus speed-up its market adoption. The RTI solar cells are formed from solutions of semiconductor particles, known as colloidal quantum dots, and can have a power conversion efficiency that is competitive to traditional cells at a fraction of the cost. Solar energy …

Electricity and Carbon Dioxide Used to Generate Alternative Fuel

ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2012) — Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car — even if it’s not an electric vehicle. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity.     Today, electrical energy generated by various methods …

Sustainable Energy Road Shows

How sustainable is our energy use and can we really make a difference? Whale Coast Conservation is bringing its traveling Energy Expo – funded by a grant from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund – to various venues in the Overberg. It’s free to all and everyone is invited to come and find out more about energy, how you can …

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South Africa has launched its first verified wind atlas, which maps out potential hotspots as a tool for wind farm developers as the coal-hungry country pushes toward renewable energy. The Wind Atlas for South Africa, launched Deputy Energy Minister Barbara Thompson on Tuesday, brings together 30 years’ worth of data verified over a year by 10 measurement masts and data …

WCC Sustainable Energy Expo

WHALE COAST CONSERVATION’S SUSTAINABLE ENERGY EXPO Are you committing the ‘energy crime’ and you don’t even realise it? Just how fast will the kids have to turn a merry-go-round to boil the water for that cuppa?  Have you ever wondered how a generator works?  What about using the energy in the waves of Walker Bay for our long-term energy needs? …