Taiwan has finished construction of it’s first solar powered sports stadium.Recently officially unveiled in time for The World Games 2009 which takes place in July. The sleeping dragon shaped structure, located in the city of Kaohsiung, has a seating capacity of 50,000 and its totally powered by Solar Energy. Adorned with over 8000 solar panels, covering an area of over [...]

Supporters of Green Living have been around for decades if not since time began. Here at LifeAlternate we don’t want to live green. We want to Live Life, Live it Cheaper and lastly Be Green if we have too. Going Green is no doubt a benefit for all of us and for those not yet born. A very important subject [...]

As an alternative to Ground source heat pumps for heating your home , where energy is drawn from the earth,  Air source Heat Pumps take their energy directly from the outside air. Cant I just open the window and let the warm air in? Air source heat pumps take the energy from the air rather then just the temperature. If [...]

Ground source heat pumps are another form of extracting natural free energy that can be used to warm your home and reduce your energy costs. Pipes buried a few feet under your garden or lawn can draw the heat from the ground. A few feet below the surface the ground temperature is more stable than on the surface, so while [...]

Using the power of the sun to heat your domestic hot water is another approach to saving the environment and reducing the cost of your domestic heating costs. Unlike photovoltaic solar panels where the suns energy is converted to electrical power, hot water flat plate solar panels draw on the suns rays to directly heat water.  The water flows in [...]