Solar Power in Public Transportation
Solar-powered mass transit is key to U.S. energy sustainability. Did you know that one full city bus can keep 50 or more cars off ...
Solar-powered mass transit is key to U.S. energy sustainability. Did you know that one full city bus can keep 50 or more cars off ...
Smart meter plans threatened?
It seems that the British plans to install smart meters is threatened by consumer fears. Householders are worried that employees of utility companies could use ...
Measuring energy consumption
The first step in reducing energy consumption is measuring how much you are using. Energy consumption consists of two primary components, power and demand. Power ...
Street lights to be replaced with LEDs
Add your own comment to the debate on LEDs, OLEDs, street lighting Ann Arbor , a city in the US, 35 miles west of Detroit, is ...
Compact fluorescent lamps and power quality
One aspect that is rarely touched in the discussion about compact fluorescent lamps and the ban of incandescent lamps: power quality. Have you ever seen ...
ELECTRIC CAR and ZERO EMISSION IN JAPAN
Japan NHK Sunday Forum (Education TV) came on the air that the title was Electric car changes our society on September 16.The program was ...
Low voltage power savings ?
It is a standard assumption that low-voltage lighting saves power in comparison to 'normal' voltage lighting. But the bulbs which have similar light outputs have ...
LEDs without transformer?
Is it possible to have an LED lamp which can be plugged into a normal power source, without going through a transformer?
Hybrid cars
I am the proud owner of a hybrid car and am writing these words some 2 weeks after taking possession. Why? Well I guess you ...
Bioethanol. Forget the biological. A bit more agro!
It takes 40 kg of wheat to do 100 km in a car. Willy Gehriger, who's head of FENACO, part of the multimillion BISON ...
Nuclear's still out in Japan. Why can't they use solar energy?
Continuing the debate on the use of photovoltaics as an alternative to nuclear... This began following the Japanese earthquake of Monday July 16, 2007 and ...
What about the risks of the efficient light bulbs?
Well, I have been reading about that, but there isn’t enough information about the risk of this efficiency bulb kin relationship with the final ...
Nigeria 'energy savings day'......
This is a pretty hard scenario to imagine.....or picture. The situation in Nigeria is so poor that we hardly have enough for domestic or ...
Joule: The Unit of Measurement of electrical (really all) energy
********** Hi Jerry, This situation will lead nowhere, with diverse units remaining holy cows. During transition years methods need to be evolved. Meters may simultaneously display ...
The Internet uses 9.4 % of electricity in the US, 5.3 % worldwide
Equipment powering the internet accounts annually for 9.4% (or 350 billion kWh) of the total electricity consumption in the US, and 5.3% (or ...
Gearless wind turbine?
I recently hear that Germany has produced a very large and efficient gearless wind turbine. Can anyone point me to a website on this? -doug
solar powered pump + small hydro
Hi all -
I've just decided to be more pro-active about managing my energy use so please forgive me if my questions seem simplistic!
A ...
PowerShift 2009
The Millennials are demanding a clean tech future now. The second Power Shift Conference and Lobbying Push is coming up. This event is not limited ...
cargador del celular
Cuando no estamos utilizándolo, es mejor desenchufarlo al cargador del celular, ya que se estaría consumiendo energía en vano. Por eso es ...
Shaking to charge a flashlight?
Having thought several times about purchasing a flashlight that could be recharged simply by shaking, i.e. I'd be the one to supply the ...
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