Saving money on lighting with power quality analyzer
Lighting is a major element of operating costs for most facilities. Lighting costs involve both energy and maintenance. A company was considering replacing its existing ...
Lighting is a major element of operating costs for most facilities. Lighting costs involve both energy and maintenance. A company was considering replacing its existing ...
How green are Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs)?
Some countries and states like Australia, California, and the European Union plan in the near future to ban incandescent light bulbs, to the benefit of ...
World heritage city installs new street lighting
When visiting Chilean world heritage city, Valparaíso, last month I was interested to see that they had not only installed new street lighting but ...
LEDs lights proven to offer excellent life-cycle energy efficiency
A new report from the lighting industry shows that the total energy efficiency of the new LED lights are just as efficient over their life ...
LED lightbulbs in the home - a bright idea?
The days of the traditional incandescent lightbulb are numbered. Soon its use will be prohibited and its disposal nigh impossible, as households will be required ...
toxicity of fluorescents
OK, cfls are nasty when broken and need to be disposed of carefully. Do 'ordinary' long tube fluorescents have the same stuff in them ? Are ...
Changing Out Old Streetlights
A few progressive cities around the world have taken initiative to reduce carbon output via the installation of energy saving streetlights. Benefits include 40-50% reduced ...
Ingenius solar power lamps !
This is in fact quite simple, but extremely ingenius and effective - the automatic on / off interior solar lamp - invented in Brasil by Mr Alfredo Moser ...
CLF eficientes IRAM-SHITSUKE (CBTL IECEE)
Los invito a que conozcan el sistema de certificación de etiquetado IRAM-SHITSUKE, sobre lamparas de uso domestico implementado en Argentina. I invite them to ...
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 ...
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/
Commit to switch = bulb amnesty?
Thought you might be interested in this http://www.asimpleswitch.co... site from Philips in the US. It asks the consumer to commit ...
This isn't a billboard. Its a power plant!
San Franciscan Pacific Gas and Electric, California, has just installed the first solar powered billboard in the world. The billboard actually draws power from the ...
Greenpeace gets Ireland to ban incandescent lightbulbs
Governments are meeting in Bali to discuss global warming mesures and the Irish Government has hit the headlines by announcing the EU's first ban ...
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 ...
What are the building blocks of the super-efficient society?
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 ...
Another Innovation In Solid-State Lighting
ReLED Systems , introduced in 2007, emerged from over twenty-five years of experience developing pioneering lighting products. Continuing this tradition, Bartco Lighting’s new division has ...
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 ...
Use electricity wisely
It's always good to practice what one's preaching, especially if it's done in such a powerful way. Eskom's advertising campaign for ...
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 ...
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