Free Home Sustainability Assessment

Accredited home sustainability assessors provide a face to face opportunity for people to ask and hear about other programs and rebates that can help them improve the environmental performance of their home.

Households are often overwhelmed by the amount of information available describing the best actions to save energy and water and to reduce greenhouse gases. It can be difficult to decide what action to take.

Householders can access a free, comprehensive Home Sustainability Assessment to reduce their energy and water bills, increase the comfort of their home and help reduce damaging carbon pollution. This independent assessment by a qualified expert assessor will provide advice from the smallest behaviour change to major investments such as a solar hot water system or photovoltaic panels. From this assessment, householders will get a tailored, expert report listing the most effective changes for their home.

The assessment will involve the physical inspection of major energy and water systems relating to thermal comfort, water heating, lighting, refrigeration, cooking, entertainment, water efficiency and outdoor consumption, and waste management. The length of the inspection will be influenced by the amount of information readily available, the size of the property and the number of energy and water systems to be considered. Each assessment should take around 1.5 hours to complete.

People who make energy and water efficiency changes to their home reap the savings that come from using less energy and water.

Cost of living is not the only saving. At the same time, each household that improves its energy and water consumption reduces the carbon footprint of their home.

Consider that the average household contributes 14 tonnes of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere each year and draws an average 292,000 litres.

Transforming our homes to be more energy efficient and water smart makes sense for our own cost of living and for the environment.

By making improvements to our homes today we can ensure that the homes of the next generation cost less to heat and cool, are more comfortable and contribute less carbon pollution.

Michelle Today on 0447776379 to book your ‘free’ assessment.

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Servicing The Fraser Coast – Queensland Australia

Hopefully in the near a future majority of vehicles will be powered by electricity. Not only will these vehicles prove to be inexpensive to fuel, but will also ensure a healthier environment. However, this move towards cleaner highways will burden the grid, which is also striving to get those extra watts without polluting the environment. Several companies have sought a green approach to cater the problem, which comes in the form of charging stations that are fueled by abundant solar energy. Here are 11 such charging stations that won’t burden the grid to make you commute without emissions:

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 5th May 2010

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

NGK Insulators Ltd developed a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that uses hydrogen gas as fuel and achieved a lower heating value (LHV) of 63%, one of the highest in the world.

The SOFC features a power output of 700W and an operating temperature of 800°C.

The company lowered the resistance value by completely coating the cell’s supporting anode with a thin film (5?m thick) of electrolyte (zirconia) and secured a sufficient power generation area by forming cathodes on both sides of the cell to achieve the large output, it said.

To evenly spread fuel gas to the entire cell, flow channels for fuel gas were formed inside the prototype cell. The thickness of the cell is 1.5mm. Also, the new fuel cell is superior in terms of size and cost because it can generate power on both the top and bottom sides and its flow channels eliminate the need for components (separators) to separate fuel gas from air, NGK Insulators said.

The company provided a stack in which tens of the cells are layered to a leading oil company in Japan, asking it to evaluate the fuel cell’s power generation performance. And it will aim to commercialize the cell for use in homes and commercial facilities such as convenience stores and shopping malls by further improving its performance. The company is planning to advance the development through technical alliances and joint developments with other companies.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 1st July 2009