Turning incandescent lamps into heatballs
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 ...
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
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 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
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
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"
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
all hybrid cars contribute a lot to our environment which produce zero emission.
Leonardo ENERGY Live Map
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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