Tidal energy project for Scottish island
While browsing this morning's headlines, this article in the Guardian caught my eye. Islay, one of the islands off the west coast of Scotland ...
While browsing this morning's headlines, this article in the Guardian caught my eye. Islay, one of the islands off the west coast of Scotland ...
SELINA Project - Newsletter Nº1
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 ...
Public awareness and the misuse of electricity
Glenn O'Neil is founder of the research and evaluation company, OWL RE. He talks to me about public awareness of the use (or misuse ...
Home Energy Monitoring by Google
Google wants to capture the world's information, and now reach for the house to monitor the energy consumption and help us lower our bills ...
Increase efficiency, reduce costs
Hadn't thought of the importance of wireless technology when I saw the new Palm charging device demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show. But, imagine ...
Concentrating photovoltaics - Industry views
Concentration photovoltaics (CPV) offers one of the most promising utility-scale, renewable energy technology options. Many companies are testing their CPV products and some have already ...
How Sustainable is a kWh?
Leonardo ENERGY, on its education role has produced an Eco-Sheet mapping the main environmental impacts of generating a kWh from different energy sources. The results ...
Solar cell efficiency may improve
A team of researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) under Prof. Laurens Siebbeles have a paper in ...
Does using standby make me a carbon criminal?
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 ...
I'm just one person. What can I do about global warming?
This was Sydney's answer. If you want to know more about the campaign, go to http://www.earthhour.org/
Trickling away the future
The debate about green computing and the energy consumption of our many and various information and communications technologies is clearly going to be important in ...
Google engineers looking at server energy use
Google is so big and powerful that when they take an interest in something it's a. worth watching b. more likely to progress than ...
Energy highlights 2007
This past year of 2007 was again an eventful one in the world of energy. There were new trends, evolving markets, and important breakthroughs. The ...
CHANGING to LED TRAFFIC SIGNAL in JAPAN
Japan National Police Agency decided to change traditional tube type traffic signal to LED type for arterial highway from next year by gradation. There are ...
Cool 'off' switches
The technology team at news.com have an entertaining photo-essay featuring their ten favourite off switches . As they put it: "With the environmentalists throwing a ...
Tim O'Reilly wonders at the profligacy of US electricity consumption
A lovely little post from publisher and general Web guru Tim O'Reilly over at the O'Reilly Radar blog. He is visiting Sicily and ...
Energy Saving Week: “Energy efficiency shouldn’t be a struggle” says Fairinvestment.co.uk
Fairinvestment.co.uk is advising UK householders to get energy efficient this week and do their part to lessen their carbon footprint for the eleventh ...
New US site tells you to "get energy active"
Just added to the US wikiwatts entries ( wattwatt.com/wikiwatts ), check out this site (getenergyactive.org) which is backed by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI ...
Energy-efficient hard drives from Hitachi
I've just done a count, and I reckon there are eleven hard drives in my house at the moment, if you include the two ...
Can electricity save energy?
Electricity is a high quality energy carrier, and its inefficient use needs to be avoided by all means. But more important than the question ‘can ...
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