The 100 terawatt hour hotel electricity bill
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 ...
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?
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 !
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
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
The Guardian is encouraging people to be more energy efficient with their new Tread Lightly community site http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi... ...
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 ...
Aerosol Emission from Burning Appliances
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'
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
J'ai récemment acheté chez Media Markt Meyrin (450.- CHF) un aspirateur sans sac Philips FC9226 dont les caractéristiques sont 33 kPa et ...
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 ...
Running to save the world
I bet you've heard that expression before. It's an idea you'd normally associate with fund raising. This one's different. Most of ...
Energy efficiency and functionality
There is much talk of energy efficiency, but little of functionality on this website and I believe it might be appropriate to be provocative. One ...
Alarming fridges - alert for midnight snacks
Escalating electricity bills, along with warming food could be a thing of the past with this 3V battery-powered fridge alarm that beeps if you leave ...
Measuring energy consumption in those giant flat-panel televisions
Reproduced from e-tech, some insight into what your Plasma or LCD uses: Reducing per model TV energy use by 25% by 2009 could save more ...
Diner pooling
I wonder if my grand-mother restaurant network can make it under the "ideas saving energy" category. It works like that: • we invite a grand mother ...
Put the lid on, keep the heat in and save a few pennies
Putting the lid on your saucepan while you're heating up stuff is one of the ways you can save a few bob here and ...
Some issues related to standby power
There's been much talk recently in the press about energy wasted in the form of standby power. The Swiss papers regularly talk about saving ...
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