News, Testing and Off-Grid Generation
When I finally get a little bit of down time I like to restore old computers, mostly Acorns. Here's an Archimedes A310 I've been working on recently. Times were simpler back then, if something went wrong the individual chips made...
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Just been to Cornwall to pick up the newly designed Ark case. It's lighter, less prone to scuffs and a little more stylish than the older design. Keeping manufacturing in the UK we used a local company called Sum Of...
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Nice and frosty this morning, first one since spring. Solar panel efficiency goes up as the temperature goes down so despite being covered in frost, these panels were generating around 20% more energy! Take a look at our solar facts...
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Well, it’s November (how did it come around so fast?!) and our thoughts are turning festive as we begin to plan for Christmas. Whilst it can be a lot of fun, the festive season can be costly for us and...
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We're collecting large amounts of data from our prototype living edition Ark which should give us the knowledge to take a small house off-grid. The orange batteries are lead acid and the blue cells in the bottom right are Lithium....
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