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Where do you start with Solar?

Depending on your budget, there are several ways to get started. A few of the popular options are:

* Solar Pool Heater which extends your swimming season by up to three months.  This uses no additional electricity, and heats up your pool by 4 – 9 degrees.  (In Mpumalanga, we would only use this for [...]

Solar water heating

Solar water heating is gaining popularity all over the world due to the many benefits it offers and because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to install.

There are many areas in a normal home that can benefit from solar power and one in particular is the heating of water as this is the biggest household [...]

Use Solar Power to save money on electricity.

Humans have been using solar power for many years to heat up their water, light up their homes and for general low-voltage applainces. Solar power energy is now more easily accessible to the public than ever before, and millions of people around the world are installing solar geysers in their homes in order to save [...]

Going solar: Facts about solar energy

Wherever you go these days, you see something about solar energy, on TV, the newspapers, magazines and many other mediums. Whether you’re talking about solar panels, solar gadgets, solar geysers or solar pool heaters – advertisers are increasingly trying to get our attention to renewable energy. But what’s the big deal? Is it really that [...]

More simple ways to save electricity

Television

Don’t use the “sleep” mode on the Television. When not watching, switch it off completely.

Geysers and Solar Geysers

Always turn the geyser thermostat to the minimum heat neccessary. Do not heat the water for a long time. During our summer months geysers keep their heat for very long thanks to the high temperatures. [...]

A Few Simple Ways to Save Electricity

Because energy prices getting more and more, it is worthwhile to know how you can save power with the appliances in your home that you use everyday.

You can save power on the following appliances:

COMPUTER

Turn the monitor off when you don’t use the computer, even if only for a minute.  This will have an impact on [...]

What is in your water?

Cooking and drinking water must be of good quality in order to ensure our health.

Ideally, drinking water must taste good, be clear and odorless, and contain the right amount of mineral salts. It should also be free of harmful substances, such as heavy metals, nitrates, or bacterial or viral agents which may pose an infection [...]

Not a drop to drink

On the face of it, Earth has plenty of the stuff. We live on a water world: about three quarters of the earth’s surface is submerged. And, give or take a few H2O molecules, there’s the same amount circulating through the water cycle now as there has been for thousands of years.

So why is there [...]

Harvest rain and save water

A report released in early October 2009 by the Water Research Commission of South Africa found that South Africa has 4% less water than 20 years ago.

Rand Water is predicting that demand for water in South Africa will outstrip supply by 2025. It also believes that Gauteng is potentially facing a water shortage as early [...]

South Africa and Swaziland sign water deal

Pretoria – As water-stressed countries, South Africa and Swaziland needed to continue to work together to address the worsening scarcity, Water and Environment Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Friday.

The countries did not have a surplus of water and therefore could ill-afford to abuse it, she said at the signing of a cross-border water supply [...]