November 2023 – Planet Savers HQ

Solar Powered Microgrid = Free Electricity

15/11/2023 planetsavershq Comments 0 Comment

Regular followers of our Instagram channel will know that as a part of our journey of learning about solar panels and how they can be used to generate ‘free’ renewable electricity, we have slowly progressed from a 21W Anker Solar Panel (as above) and Anker Power Bank (26800mAh portable charger), to purchasing two, larger 50W and 100W solar panels.. The manufacturer of choice for our larger solar panels was eventually Renogy, as we had seen these beiing utilised in marine…

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Manifesto: The Battle for Green Britain

05/11/2023 planetsavershq Comments 0 Comment

Linking back to British green industrialist Dale Vince, we recently purchased and read his book entitled “Manifesto”, which in his own words, is part memoir, part mission statement. Dale’s story of originally joining travellers, going off-grid, and becoming truly self-reliant is quite inspiring and shows that following the well-beaten path isn’t for everyone and shouldn’t have to be. It wasn’t all plain sailing, though. The episode about the Battle of the Beanfield is quite shocking and revelatory! His obvious good…

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Dale Vince

05/11/2023 planetsavershq Comments 0 Comment

Someone who we have only really got to know and understand more about recently is British industrialist Dale Vince. Think Britain’s equivalent to Elon Musk but with morals, Dale has predicted successfully which way industries should be heading before others, and capitalised on these insights by setting up related businesses that have arguably kickstarted whole new industrial sectors. After building his first wind turbine in 1996, he then went on to expand on this and found Ecotricity, the first company…

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Planetary Boundaries

04/11/2023 planetsavershq Comments 0 Comment

The planetary boundaries concept presents a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. These nine planetary boundaries were first proposed by former Stockholm Resilience Centre director Johan Rockström and a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists in 2009. Since then, their framework has been revised several times. The latest update in Sept’ 2023 not only quantified all boundaries, but it also concludes that six of the nine boundaries have…

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