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Solar Power

Domestic Solar Energy

A Case Study from Garforth This blog is based on a presentation from Eco-Friendly Garforth’s Energy Sustainability events from 2023. It describes the domestic set up from one of our members. My Domestic System My roof is made up of three groups of 330W solar panels: 3 facing south, 13 facing east and 4 facing […]

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Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicle Facts and Fiction

There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings around Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the UK. We’ve made a list of some of these covering concerns about range, charging infrastructure, running costs, and safety. Some are due to now out of date problems with earlier technologies and have become the accepted truth. In the text of […]

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Electric Vehicles

Are Electric Vehicles a Solution or a Distraction?

Introduction Electric Vehicles (EVs) are being proposed as a direct replacement for internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles as the solution to the problems they cause. This essay will explore the issues relating to ICE vehicles, what governments are doing to address this, the issues that EVs themselves present and alternatives that they may be distracting […]