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Pedalling uphill - energy saving measures

Philippa Martin-King on March 2, 2010
A ski school in the French speaking Swiss resort of Torgon has developed an original way of getting the kids up the baby slope. Using ...

Cut down on your TV consumption

Philippa Martin-King on February 15, 2010
California has just voted by 5 to 0 to cut down on the State's TV electricity consumption. The California Energy Commission, based on a ...

Harvesting energy from other devices to power up

Philippa Martin-King on January 13, 2010
At CES 2010, RCA was showing a prototype of a handheld energy-harvesting battery designed to convert energy transmitted in a Wi-Fi signal into DC power ...

Mandatory energy efficient HDTV screens for California

Philippa Martin-King on December 7, 2009
There's a new move towards energy efficiency in California. This time, the State's energy commissioners have voted beyond the federal government’s voluntary ...

Juan Rosales

Juan Rosales on October 23, 2009
Lookig for any update related to energy effiency household appliances

"One size fits all" phone chargers soon to be reality

Yvonne Flavin on October 23, 2009
Who hasn't ever had their phone battery die on them and no-one around has the same make of charger to lend? Or have you ...

SELINA Project - Newsletter Nº1

Carlos Patrão on May 29, 2009
 SELINA Project Has Taken Off  A new Energy Intelligence for Europe (IEE) project has taken off : the SELINA project which stands for Standby and Off-Mode ...

Five Ways to Keep Your House Safe

Jackie Taylor on May 28, 2009
Life is precious and you can never do too much in an attempt to protect it and preserve it. By guarding and securing your home ...

Do you have to be an electrician to save a life?

Philippa Martin-King on March 26, 2009
Thomas Sutton is Managing Director Frog Design, Italy and a New Zealander living in Milan. He is concerned with medical devices where in hospitals today ...

Legislate on a standard device charger

Philippa Martin-King on March 26, 2009
Bill Thompson is an independent technology critic, well known for his regular broadcasts on the BBC's programme, Digital Planet. In this interview filmed at ...

Philippe Starck Democratic Ecology personal wind turbine

Jose Vaz Pinto on July 25, 2008
Philippe Starck , the well known designer, presents an eco solution: a personal wind-turbine, called Democratic Ecology . The claim is that a single windmill can generate ...

The 100 terawatt hour hotel electricity bill

Mark Frary on May 7, 2008
I get to stay in an awful lot of hotels in my job. I’m the ski correspondent for The Times newspaper in the UK ...

Does using standby make me a carbon criminal?

Mark Frary on May 7, 2008
In these times of increased concern about global warming , the average person is now being forced to question everything they do in their daily lives ...

Human power generation - or how to turn the world greener !

Jose Vaz Pinto on April 21, 2008
Innovators company Potenco , developed the Pull-Cord Generator (PCG), used as the power supply by "the one-laptop-per-child project". It's a new approach to human power ...

Gravity powered LED lamp

Bill Thompson on February 24, 2008
This is rather nice - one of the winners of the US-based Greener Gadgets competition is a lamp that gets its power from the slow fall ...

Guardian Tread Lightly - Encouraging Low Carbon Lifestyle

Nicola Piggott on November 20, 2007
The Guardian is encouraging people to be more energy efficient with their new Tread Lightly community site http://www.guardian.co.uk/e... ...

What are the building blocks of the super-efficient society?

Hans De Keulenaer on November 13, 2007
At Leonardo ENERGY, we're starting a reflection about the elements of the super-efficient society. Many of you have heard of Factor 4 , and the ...

Aerosol Emission from Burning Appliances

Shinichi Nishidate on November 5, 2007
I send a pulse which the title was Practical Use of Best Mix Energy before. In that message I introduced establishing new “Japan Wood Pellet ...

Mainframes get a 'gas gauge'

Bill Thompson on October 15, 2007
Although we're all obsessed with the latest ultralight laptops and cool phones, we shouldn't forget that many large organisations still use big mainframe ...

Aspirateurs vendus sans unités internationales d'aspiration

M. Denis Bloud on October 14, 2007
J'ai récemment acheté chez Media Markt Meyrin (450.- CHF) un aspirateur sans sac Philips FC9226 dont les caractéristiques sont 33 kPa et ...