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Charge Your EV at Phone Booths with SPARK Plugs

Satya Sivani — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:29:58 +0000

Spark Plugs could be a simple solution to your ‘range anxiety’. Spark Ventures has converted some selected phone booths near Auckland into EV charging stations and is allowing drivers to top-up their car battery. Spark Ventures CEO, Rod Snodgrass, says,“Using our lovely phone boxes as top-up charging stations is an incredibly innovative and modest idea, and […]

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Green Home Fail – 100% of Insulation Installations Defective in New Zealand

Benji Jerew — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:23:11 +0000

Green homes, especially where the climate is outside of human comfort zones, depend on proper insulation. Fiberglass insulation is a key component to the green home. This barrier, in the winter, keeps the heat creeping through the walls to a slow crawl. In the summer, the insulation does the same thing, only keeping the heat […]

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Development of Philippines Geothermal Energy, Helped by NZ Scientists

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:22:44 +0000

Among the renewable energy industries in the Philippines, geothermal energy is the one able to keep on expanding. What’s more, it ranks second among other providers of geothermal power in the world. Along with the sector’s development is the continuing support of New Zealand’s Institute of Geothermal and Nuclear Sciences (GNS Science), which evaluates current […]

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