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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

After moving to Octopus Energy we moved to the then Beta version of Octopus Go and this is the killer app for solar and battery power. . With Octopus Go we receive low cost power between 00:30 and 04:30 every day. Apparently in total this equates to a saving of 715 KG of coal burning and a saving of 1.8 Octopus Go.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. Way to go morons. P.S. The Volt is not revolutionary.

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