Energy Efficiency
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Less than 5 miles from the Eiffel tower, a 120 foot cylinder rises into the air, not unlike the Egyptian obelisk a little further down the street. This is not a new art installation or a simple flag pole, however, but rather a modified piece of machinery more familiar with ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
While hybrids currently only represent a small portion of the automotive market, it is quickly growing amidst rising fuel prices and concerns over global warming. Some consumers even find it difficult to purchase a hybrid as wait times are long for popular models, and thus dealers are charging more. These ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
LEDs, light-emitting diodes, are the future of household and commercial lighting, there is no doubt about that; they are way more efficient than even compact fluorescent bulbs (they also contain no mercury), use very little electricity, and last about 50,000 hours, meaning they'll probably outlive us all. The question though, ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
To be perfectly honest we've not been fans of hydrogen around here, in fact we're pretty much against it for most suggested applications. The problem with hydrogen is that today the majority of it is produced from by-products of natural gas combustion which releases CO2 into the atmosphere, among other ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
On Sunday Bombardier, a Canadian-based company that designs and builds mass transit vehicles, business jets and passenger planes, announced that it will roll out the first of its' CSeries planes, one that is substantially more environmentally friendly that what we find in the air today.
The CSeries will rival the well-known ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
There has been a lot of press lately about the UK's Professor Seamus Garvey, a researcher who designed a method of storing the excess energy produced by wind turbines for later use in a very novel way. Essentially it involves Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), a principle that works by ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
We love LED lights; they can provide as much illumination as our erstwhile friend the incandescent, but at a small fraction of the power consumption, and they can last you an entire lifetime (it would be amusing to bequeath some LEDs to my future offspring), having a typical life of ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Generally we associate Toyota with car manufacturing, but the reality is that Toyota is a massive company that has its hands in aerospace, financial services, education, and even growing flowers. It's the last of those endeavors that has attracted some recent attention because the Japanese giant is using waste C02 ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
A lot has been going on recently in Germany when it comes to solar, from various companies investing heavily in photovoltaics, to the government's shrinking solar subsidy, but this weekend the small town of Marburg passed a law that will require all new houses and those whose roofs or heating ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Powering the grid with renewable energies is a great idea that we'd love to see, and we'd love even more to see coal, oil, and natural gas-fired power plants (and nukes too) close up their doors for good. Unfortunately, the largest of these renewable energies cannot be relied upon to ...
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