Tim Cinel

Do you ever consider what components of your power bill add up to the rate that you’re paying? According to innovative British engineer Allan Jones, about 20% of the rate accounts for actual electricity. The majority of the rate is to pay for distribution, power loss and government grid fees. Jones recognised these financial and fuel inefficiencies and proposed a solution, local decentralised power, that managed to save a council 80% in energy costs and is now being implemented in London. (more…)

Last week’s Big Ideas podcast from ABC Radio National poses a curious concept… Professor Niall Ferguson applies the concept that organisms adapt to their surrounding environment to the financial world. In most cases, the theory seems to be proven by history. Listen to the lecture on lessons from financial history.

Just listening to my podcasts and caught a particularly interesting and useful episode (#68) of SmallBizPod - the small business podcast. This specific episode is an interview with Rachel Elnaugh - a ’serial entrepreneur’ that used to be on the Dragon’s Den in the UK.

The points that I found most interesting were… (more…)