This week my father and I are over in the house for seven days, this will actually be the longest time we have spent here in one swoop and it’s borne out of the frustration that my wife and I have that we just can’t tinker with stuff on the odd weekend. A quick recap : While we are finalising

Well I’m starting my weekend of home energy recording with “The Owl“. This of course all stems from a desire to find out how much electricity we use so we can estimate out solar energy requirements. Before I got started thought it was time grab a coffee and then I got the shock of my life! The Owl alarm went

For those that don’t know what “The Owl” is I’ll just have a very quick and simple recap. It’s a device that reads the amount if electricity being drawn from your meter and with the information you enter during set-up ($ or £, cost per kWh, amount of CO2 per kWh produced) it’ll sit in your house frightening the life