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Turning incandescent lamps into heatballs

Hans De Keulenaer on September 5, 2010
Incandescent lamps are terribly inefficient. About 5% electricity gets converted into light with the remaining 95% lost as heat. They are class F appliances at ...

Digital Camera Terms To Know

ENews Line on September 3, 2010
It helps when learning to use your new digital camera to also know what some of the more common terms mean.  Below you will find ...

How Heat Pumps Work

Steve Brown on September 1, 2010
Steve Brown Development Director for Envirotec Ltd explains the theory behind how heat pumps work:   Heat pumps use the same technology as is used in ...

Super Nova 60: The Great, Green Glitterati Yacht

Dean Dowd on August 31, 2010
Sauter Carbon Offset Design , a firm dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by up to 100 percent in the shipbuilding industry, recently announced the ...

The zero race isn't about speed but green

Philippa Martin-King on August 20, 2010
The Zero race aims to take electric vehicles round the world in 80 days - non-driving time spent on boats and so on discounted. It isn ...

Carbon capture with "Synthetic trees"

Laila Briquet-Mosig on August 19, 2010
The August 2010 edition of National Geographic has an interesting article on the " Synthetic tree " idea, which I've posted about previously.  Looks like development ...

electric cars

Tammy Beede on August 17, 2010
all hybrid cars contribute a lot to our environment which produce zero emission.

Leonardo ENERGY Live Map

Hans De Keulenaer on August 16, 2010
At LE, we're launching our live map , showing who reads what where on sustainable energy around the globe. This map draws from our content ...

New type of solar cell converts both heat and sun's rays

Philippa Martin-King on August 10, 2010
According to Ars Technica , "a team of scientists has invented a new type of solar cell that converts both the sun's heat and light ...

NASCAR Raceway Leads on Track to Solar Power

Dean Dowd on August 9, 2010
It may be a tad early to expect electric cars to zoom around speedways at 200 miles per hour. So the noise, commotion and fumes ...

EV around the globe

Philippa Martin-King on August 4, 2010
Finally, we're beginning to see various plug-in or plug-less public systems being set up for recharging electric vehicles. There's also news about EV ...

Smart device for phone chargers saves electricity

Philippa Martin-King on August 3, 2010
The average British household wastes £37 each year by leaving appliances on stand-by reports the UK manufacturer of a smart power socket that turns off ...

What countries ready to a Smart Grid Certification or Rating System

Joonho Ahn on July 28, 2010
Hi everybody... I need to get some information about smart grid certification or rating system other countries. In Korea, begining to certification of smart devices ...

Pakistani electricity boost to come from US

Philippa Martin-King on July 19, 2010
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has just announced a $500m aid package for Pakistan in a day-long "strategic dialogue" in Islamabad between American ...

Harvesting wave energy to generate electricity

Philippa Martin-King on July 13, 2010
This morning at TED Global in Oxford, Melanie Nadeau who is Chairman of IEC Technical Committee 114: Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current ...

Savings

Taylar Tom on July 1, 2010
Summer is here, and that means more long and hot days, spending time outside, and getting some projects done around the house. There are a ...

Shai Agassi of Better Place on future of EVs and the grid

Jonathan Buck on June 25, 2010
Inspirational businessman: "In any market 99 % of all energy for all cars comes in the form of liquid fossil fuel molecules. Even a hybrid car ...

Sustainable energy without the hot air

Jack Sheldon on June 23, 2010
What ought to be required reading for all wattwatters: http://www.withouthotair.com/ "Sustainable energy without the not air" by David Mackay. Finally a book ...

I did it (electrically) my way - or M-way

Philippa Martin-King on June 17, 2010
An article published yesterday on European Motor News about electric vehicles puts Switzerland on the map as part of a European development in a new ...

The heat is switched off in Britain

Philippa Martin-King on June 8, 2010
It looks as though the heat is off in Britain! Until this month, the UK had a project to improve renewable heat generation through the ...