About “Home Energy Secrets”
This website, “Home Energy Secrets” has been constructed to share information with people who want to become more energy self-reliant. The key concepts to master include the orientation of a home, placement of building materials with high thermal mass, glazing and insulation. Matching the most efficient energy sources for the job, eg using gas for cooking as well as using energy efficient electrical appliances, significantly reduces a households financial expenditure on energy. When coupled with a families good energy efficient habits, electricity bills can be reduced significantly.
As solar panels continue to reduce in price and increase in efficiency, more and more people are using less and less grid
Going off the electricity grid is merely a concept involving the reduction of a household’s dependency on established infrastructure.
No one truly goes off the grid, nor would they want to. You may produce all the energy you need or you may collect an excess of electricity that you can export to the grid, as we do, however, you will still have a dependency on others for the supply of other goods and services that you and your family consume.
Each member of any
No one has the capacity to become adequately proficient in every skill that is required to live in a modern community. Even if you could build your own computer, the components required for its construction need to be mass produced in a factory where the economies of scale make the
Our focus at this site is increasing the thermal comfort of a home and reducing
People elect to become more self-reliant for a number of reasons including economic, reducing their environmental footprint or even regaining some of their sovereignty. If you are reading this then you have an interest in one or more of these areas and will more than likely benefit from some information that can be gleaned from this site. Please share this information with like-minded people.
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John Lynn
About John Lynn
John Lynn was born in Australia in the mid 1950’s and was a registered teacher with Education Queensland for 37 years. He has worked in primary and high schools both in the classroom and in administration including contract work with both State and Federal Governments and has been a lecturer at TAFE. He has spent much of his time in “support” roles after completing post graduate studies in Special Education at Griffith University in 1991.
After becoming interested in “alternative energies” in the late 80s and early 90s, he put together several “stand-alone solar systems” on a property near Woodford in Qld. which he and his wife purchased in 1996. The systems included 12volt, 24 volt and 48 volt systems with energy storage ranging from 1.2 kWh to 42 kWh. He undertook studies in Renewable Energy Technologies at Ithica TAFE in Brisbane in 1999.
He designed and owner built his family’s energy efficient Passive Solar Home which supplied all of its own electricity from 2001 until 2012. The home is cool in the summer with the summer sun denied access to the long northern wall of the home whilst allowing the winter sun to flood through the windows. The household’s electricity consumption has averaged around 3 kWh per day since its construction even when his three daughters were young. The dwelling requires very little if any need to warm or cool the home having exceeded a 9/9 NatHERS rating in 2000.
The three approved NatHERS programs are now calibrated to give a star rating out of ten.
Average daily internal temperatures are approximately 23 degrees C.
In 2012 he installed an interactive system which exports surplus electricity into the grid paying him around $4000 per year without his household getting an electricity bill. When the FIT agreement terminates in 2028, assuming contributions and energy prices stay consistent, John’s family will have exported $64 000 worth of energy and would have statistically saved $32 000 putting them financially in the order of $96 000 better off than a similar household from 2012 to 2028.
Being a keen musician, he has played piano and guitar in a number of bands over the last 45 years and operated a PA and light business through the 80’s and 90’s. His involvement within the community in and around Woodford Qld. has had him run a number of open mic events including “jammit Woodford”, for almost six years and a blues open mic called “Blues Connection”, for two years. He was the president of the swimming club for two years and the Chairman of the Stony Creek Rural Fire Brigade for 13 years.
John speaks at events and small group meetings from the Gold Coast to Sunshine Coast including free information nights at various council libraries sharing fundamentals and tips for households on practical ways families can reduce their energy consumption. Since mid 2019 John has been local community radio station FM101.5’s “Energy Expert” and gives weekly tips to the community on how households can effectively reduce their electricity bills.
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