* Australia's Clean Energy Council last week announced figures for the amount of electric power provided to the national electricity grid from household rooftop solar generation!
* Results demonstrate the rapidly increasing role that household rooftop solar is playing in powering Australia!
* There are now more than 3 million of Australia's 11 million households with rooftop solar panels! The large majority of these are houses due to the continuing difficulties of installing rooftop solar on apartment buildings!
* Goodell.J. Heat: Life and death on a scorched planet, Melbourne: Black Inc. (2023).
* A few highlights from the book from a review by Jeff Sparrow , 'The Saturday Paper', July 29-August 4, 2023:
+ Through all of animal and human evolution the management of heat has preoccupied all creatures!
+Once human internal systems reach 40.5 degrees centigrade we die. That is why the 40 degrees plus days- in some places near 50 degrees- of heat across Europe recently, are so significant.
OUR ELECTRIFYING EXPERIENCE
Angus M Robinson from Sydney’s Leafy Suburbia
Saul Griffith’s recent appearance on the ABC TV program, Australian Story has prompted me to reflect on our own experience, 14 years after moving into our current home, during a time that the challenges faced by climate change has been a prompt for all home-owners to consider how we can all reduce our environmental footprint and carbon emissions.
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Managing Director, Leisure Solutions Pty Ltd
* LACK OF INFORMATION MAYBE THE MAIN CAUSE OF RESIDENTS OF BRADFIELD NOT TAKING POSITIVE ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE - 'WHAT SHOULD I DO?' HOW DO I DO IT?'
*Survey research by Ku-ring-gai Council 'Net Zero' Team found that one of the main barriers reported by respondents for NOT taking positive action against climate change is because of a lack of information!
* This is supported by reponses to Electrifying Bradfield's own social survey.
* Two 'problems' with solar panels and reasons for 'why I'm not installing them' that are said to me constantly are that 'manufacturing solar panels uses a lot of [fossil-fuel) energy' and 'they can't be recycled - we're going to have our rubbish dumps filled with old solar panels'!
WRONG! JUST ANOTHER TWO MYTHS THAT NEED TO BE CHALLENGED AND CORRECTED!
* In latest developments researchers at Macquarie University, Sydney have made two significant discoveries in the manufacture and recycling of solar panels!
* Some of the biggest energy providers in Australia are our very worst emissions polluters!
* Recent study by CHOICE shows several of our biggest electricity providers are also the biggest polluters!
*You may well be surprised - even those purported to be offering 'green energy' - for a price!
Check it out on the CHOICE website - you can easily get a one-off entry! - or you can join!
* Check to see if you are being supplied by one of the big polluters - then get advice about how easy it is to change!
* We've established that cooking or heating with gas is not the best thing to do for anyone who suffers from any sort of asthma or lung condition - because up to 30% of the gas goes into the room and not into the cooking!
* Well now we've also established a similar impact on our health! Increasing air pollution from burning fossil fuels in motor vehicles!
*11,000 Australians now die every year from diseases attributed to air pollution! This is more than die from skin cancers!
WHAT IS AN INDUCTION COOKTOP?
[Authored by someone who has cooked by induction for many years]