Neerav Bhatt's blog: electric Australian transportation & sustainable homes
Having a sustainable home isn’t just great for reducing your family emissions and impact on the environment. Sustainable homes like mine generate most of their electricity used, have lower power bills, don’t need a gas connection, are more comfortable all year, need less heating and cooling, let in less noise and don’t have condensation problems.
If you’re looking to buy a new fridge you might have noticed that all the fridges have an Energy Star rating out of 6. The newly released Hisense HR6BMFF519B has managed to achieve an astounding 6 Energy Star rating according to the government... Read More
Lithium batteries are highly flammable and very hard to extinguish if they burst into flames, but if you’re not in an aeroplane it’s not the end of the world – putting out fires on the ground is something humans have generally become... Read More
GUEST ARTICLE: An increase in teleworking will boost business productivity and reduce traffic pollution in our major cities, argues Jon Dee the Managing Director of advocacy group Do Something! and NSW Australian of the Year for 2010. One of the key... Read More
The Earth is 70% water, yet mankind has never traveled to the planet’s deepest point, and has encountered only around 10% of what lives down there. New submersible technology is about to change that. ‘‘I’d like to be, under the sea, in an... Read More
GUEST ARTICLE: Imagine if your grocery shop had no prices marked on the shelves and they simply billed you with a lump-sum statement every quarter. Yet, this is how most households and businesses pay for their electricity consumption. Using Power... Read More
Trapped on a bus or plane with friends and colleagues for hours on end, deprived of sleep, not told where they’re going until the very last minute, given minimal information which is carefully managed and controlled. What does this sound like?... Read More
Climate change tops the bill as the #1 election issue for Australians online according to new research from Experian Hitwise but the major parties aren’t willing to address it because for Labor it’s easier to ignore the problem for the... Read More
GUEST ARTICLE: There are gadgets which you see in stores and think “how cool is that” and they go straight on the to buy list. Granted my to buy list is quite long but I have managed to get my hands on one of these bits of technology … a... Read More
Compared to most people I don’t buy or own much stuff but I still have too much stuff so I am slowly giving away, selling or throwing away all my excess stuff (clothes, gadgets, shoes, books etc etc etc) “too much stuff” photo... Read More
GUEST ARTICLE: The electricity industry is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in Australia, contributing more than all vehicle emissions. This industry is however important to the Australian economy generating $13.1 billion in revenue annually... Read More