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These days, we pretty much take electricity for granted. Mind you, we also take mobile phones for granted, even though there are plenty of people who can clearly remember life before those new-fangled contraptions. Of course, there’s no-one around who can remember what it was like before electricity, when people used hot coals to heat... Read More

In the mid-80s, some primitive tech gurus came up with the idea of automating things around your home. We say primitive, because home automation has come a very long way since those days, when you essentially needed a dedicated server in your house and lots of wiring, not to mention a skilled technician to do... Read More

There’s no doubt that the advent and development of solar energy technology has been a significant advance in supplying the world’s power needs. While our ancestors figured out how to harness some energy from the wind, via windmills, all they could really extract from the sun was some heat. Things have changed since the fairly... Read More

As we’ve discussed previously, Australia leads the world in the proportion of households with rooftop solar energy systems, with about one in six homes now having photovoltaic panels on their roofs. That level of adoption would suggest that most Aussies know we have plenty of sunshine and that sunshine can be turned into power. But... Read More