by John Lynn | Sep 23, 2019 | Off Grid Living
I recently gave a talk at the Caboolture Library outlining a major tip on how households could statistically reduce their electricity bills by about 10%. I always say statistically speaking because there actually is no average household. There is no average household...
by John Lynn | Sep 2, 2019 | Off Grid Living
Why Aren’t My Solar Panels Performing? Have you ever noticed that some people buy what other people have so that they can apparently also have what they think those other people have got. However very frequently, even though they appear to have exactly the same thing,...
by John Lynn | Aug 19, 2019 | Off Grid Living
Build for all seasonal conditions … or you’ll incur added expense, disappointment and inconvenience. In every case without exception the devil is in the detail. It’s usually those little things that make the big differences. The difference between coming first...
by John Lynn | Aug 5, 2019 | Off Grid Living
It’s Not All Beer And Skittles, … Some days are diamonds and some days it just buckets down. That’s right, … it’s not all beer and skittles. For one quarter of the population who have solar panels on their roof, an overcast day is not a good day out....
by John Lynn | Jul 22, 2019 | Off Grid Living
Windows … what are they good for? Well … for a start you can look through them on a rainy day and not get wet. They allow a home to be filled with light during the day time on a winter’s day whilst separating the occupants from the element outside. For...
by John Lynn | Jul 3, 2019 | Off Grid Living
Set Yourself Up For The Season By the time you get to 4 or 5 years of age you have most likely become very familiar with the seasons. There’s really no mystery to it and even though each season may be a little different, each season arrives like clockwork....
by John Lynn | Jun 18, 2019 | Off Grid Living
What Were They Thinking? My family recently went to Tasmania. The map we used for our planning showed very clearly that Antarctica was less than 60 cm away. Now I know that the map we were using wasn’t to scale, but in real life, and especially from the...
by John Lynn | May 27, 2019 | Off Grid Living
Legislating For Energy Efficiency … is that ok? In Australia since 2003, no approvals have been granted to build homes that do not reach a minimum 6 star rating. You can no longer build whatever you want wherever you want. Those days are long gone and the market...
by John Lynn | May 13, 2019 | Off Grid Living
Let Mother Nature Do The Energy Work The larger percentage of our energy requirements is expended on either heating or cooling. So how can you get mother nature to do most of the heavy lifting for you? In reality, it’s not heavy lifting for her; she does it...
by John Lynn | Apr 29, 2019 | Off Grid Living
Grid Power, an overview on delivery Have you ever wondered how the heat from the flame of a kerosene fridge could possibly have anything to do with keeping milk fresh and butter firm in a cold fridge on a hot day? I’ll let you Google that one because in this...
