Comments on: Carbon Futility: Efforts in the ISP industry http://techwiredau.com/2008/12/carbon-futility-efforts-in-the-isp-industry/ Australian Technology News Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:10:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: JustBekky http://techwiredau.com/2008/12/carbon-futility-efforts-in-the-isp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-2284 JustBekky Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:09:35 +0000 http://techwiredau.com/?p=2670#comment-2284 I like this blog... Mine is a comparative FAIL. "Blah blah blah... my life... blah blah blah... nice clothes... blah blah blah... Jesus...blah." I have blog envy. XD I like this blog…

Mine is a comparative FAIL.
“Blah blah blah… my life… blah blah blah… nice clothes… blah blah blah… Jesus…blah.”

I have blog envy. XD

]]> By: Krusher http://techwiredau.com/2008/12/carbon-futility-efforts-in-the-isp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-2167 Krusher Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:33:57 +0000 http://techwiredau.com/?p=2670#comment-2167 I as a home user have always been interested to see what I can do about putting solar systems etc on the roof to offset my own (quite large) amount of power usage, but have always been offput by the power companies inability to recognise power going back into the grid as cheaper than its own. Overseas many companies will bay customers double what they are charged for power going back into the companies grid, as this encourages more and more customers to go the same way while reducing overall costs for the power company, which one would hope could eventually shut-off it's last coal power plant and become just a 'Manager' for all the provided power. So until Australian power companies go the way of others it continues to be a rather expensive avenue down which to travel, unless of course you do what a friend of mine in Tin Can Bay decided to do recently and completely disconnect your house from the main grid, saving and extra couple of hundred and going completely self sustained (Ok ok so if he needs to use power tools he has an extention coming across from the neighbours shed in return for a few beers every now and again) :-) The final point I'd like to note is slightly to do with design of these systems more than the sustainability of any green powered system. With more and more people contributing back into the grid over time, power companies should also be able to look at better ways of running their own systems to be redundant as the majority of the power should end up coming from each individual home meaning that we should soon be nearly say goodbye to power outages, just a an automatic switch over and your street becomes self sufficiant even if the main link back to the power company goes offline. I as a home user have always been interested to see what I can do about putting solar systems etc on the roof to offset my own (quite large) amount of power usage, but have always been offput by the power companies inability to recognise power going back into the grid as cheaper than its own.

Overseas many companies will bay customers double what they are charged for power going back into the companies grid, as this encourages more and more customers to go the same way while reducing overall costs for the power company, which one would hope could eventually shut-off it’s last coal power plant and become just a ‘Manager’ for all the provided power.

So until Australian power companies go the way of others it continues to be a rather expensive avenue down which to travel, unless of course you do what a friend of mine in Tin Can Bay decided to do recently and completely disconnect your house from the main grid, saving and extra couple of hundred and going completely self sustained (Ok ok so if he needs to use power tools he has an extention coming across from the neighbours shed in return for a few beers every now and again) :-)

The final point I’d like to note is slightly to do with design of these systems more than the sustainability of any green powered system. With more and more people contributing back into the grid over time, power companies should also be able to look at better ways of running their own systems to be redundant as the majority of the power should end up coming from each individual home meaning that we should soon be nearly say goodbye to power outages, just a an automatic switch over and your street becomes self sufficiant even if the main link back to the power company goes offline.

]]>