Posts Tagged ‘solar’

Get electricity for free with HomeSun solar

Many solar companies offer free solar panels in exchange for ‘leasing’ your roof or you can buy outright. If you don’t meet the requirements for free panels and don’t have a spare £15,000 lying around for the full installation, we’ve come across a company who can still help you!

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Free solar panels from ISIS Solar

As you may remember, Mr Green replaced our lighting with LEDs and installed a couple of small solar panels to run them. So far so good; we now enjoy free lighting most of the year. We would love to install more solar and run things like computers, chargers and other non-heat producing appliances. Well, to be honest,…

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What’s the point of LED lighting?

Light Emitting diodes (LEDs) are not a new invention. The LED was first invented in Russia in the 1920s, and introduced in America as a practical electronic component in 1962. Oleg Vladimirovich Losev was a radio technician who noticed that diodes used in radio receivers emitted light when current was passed through them. In 1927,…

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LEDs, a new generation of lighting

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) lead a new and exciting era of modern ecological lighting. They have been evolving over the last decade and are now maturing into a viable economic alternative to the incandescent bulb and CFL.

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EverLite Announces EL9 Solar Clip Light

New from Everlite is the EL9 solar clip light which is compact, powerful and doubles as a charger for personal electronic devises. Here at Chez Green were big fans of gadgets and gizmos that reduce our need for stuff. That sounds a bit of a contradiction in terms! What I mean is multi function and…

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Light up your house number with solar

I’ve just stumbled across a really neat, sustainable idea from Ecoutlet. With darker nights coming, how do you give directions to people to get to your home? Most of us have house numbers and you know how frustrating it can be to drive along at night trying to see a clear house number on someone’s…

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