Recently I was looking over the new electric car that South Africa is producing called the Joule. What an amazing machine. So many echo ideas have gone into this wonderful car and it is being hailed by the world as a great car. The best part of all it comes from South Africa? Yes.
While there, I entered a competition from the company that creates the car to give ideas on how we can make South Africa green. Get this, I won a prize for the idea I sent. I received a cool limited edition shirt and this wonderful little book. http://www.kalahari.net/books/Going-Green-365-Ways-to-Change-Our-World/632/33827084.aspx
You can also enter still on http://www.dontbeapassenger.com/ This site also has some awesome facts about our environment and loads of ideas on how we can make a difference in some small way. If we all make one change, that will be almost 54 million people making a change here in South Africa alone. Then you can go over to http://www.optimalenergy.co.za/ to see the Joule in action and read more about the tech behind it.
The idea I had was simple. We should create a community solar array in the houses in our local neighbourhood, then use the excess power to feed back into the Eskom grid and charge Eskom for the power. Now that’s called getting your own back. But it would also be a good idea to run the local community out of your own power sources, then you will be independent of the government power grapples. Not to mention that your power source doesn’t burn up thousands of tons of coal per day.
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