Tag: Electricity - Page 10
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Light Bulbs To Get Nutrition-Style Labels Next Year
Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which
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Security Is Next Multi-Billion Dollar Boom for Smart Grid
The security of the smart grid, from privacy and ownership of personal information among consumers to hackers' ability to fell the entire grid in one sweep of malicious code, has been a hotly debated topic since the
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Georgia Rep Says Clean Energy Bill Will Kill Grandma
Representative Paul Broun says clean energy legislation will cause electricity prices to rise, which will make it too expensive to run air conditioning, and people will die of hyperthermia. Joe Romm types it out: A lot of old people in Georgia and
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Hot New Trend: Old Fashioned Incandescent Lightbulbs
What's hot in restaurant design these days? Retro light bulbs, of the old, carbon-filament power-sucking kind. And the warmer the light, the less efficient they are, some running under 2 lumens per watt. (a fluorescent
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Understanding the Smart Grid: What's Great and What's Wrong with Electricity 2.0 (Video)
What exactly is the smart grid, why don't we have it, and when will we? For most Americans, the smart grid is a mystery. That's part of the reason why there is some bubbling hostility toward smart meter installation
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Osmotic Power Could Generate Electricity for Half of Europe by 2030 - Strong Emphasis on Could
image: Statkraft Osmotic Power has been kicking around for a while now, with researchers trying to make it cost-competitive--the biggest hurdle when you're trying to generate electricity by passing fresh water through a membrane into saltwater. Now, a
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Urge New York State Legislators to Pass Solar Jobs Act
New York City and New York State may not be the first places that come to mind when you think of places leading in the use of solar energy, but a pending piece of landmark legislation might work to change that. The New York Solar
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MIT Plan to Slash Energy Consumption on Campus Could Save $50 Million
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is partnering with
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Ask Pablo: Is A Freezer Chest The Environmentally Friendly Choice?
Image Source: Jonny Hunter Dear Pablo: I grow plenty of vegetables in the summer but can't in the winter. In addition to preserving what I can in canning jars, I am thinking about getting a freezer chest to store my vegetables into the winter. I am
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Microsoft's Hohm Compares Your Energy Consumption to 60 Million Homes
Microsoft has been working away at improving their Hohm platform - the energy management website they built for people interested in monitoring and minimizing their energy use. One of the features that most companies focusing on
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Indigenous Amazonians Prepare For War to Stop Massive Hydroelectric Dam on Xingu River
Brazil's planned 11 gigawatt Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River (a tributary of the Amazon) has raised a lot of protest in the past few months--and some comparisons of life
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Is Hydropower Really a Clean Power Source?
It's about 6% of the electricity in the United States, 15% in China (and climbing), 41% in Switzerland, 80% in Colombia, and 96% in Ethiopia. It
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Mercedes-Benz' Head of Design Rolls Out Their Electric Cars for the Future
Mercedes-Benz World is Disneyland for Benz lovers. It is three floors of vintage and new Mercedes, along with a cafe, shop, simulators and a test run. A dream come true for wanna-be Merc. drivers and owners.
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Solar Aero Develops Bladeless, Tesla-Inspired Wind Turbine
Granted, this doesn't look like much. This wind turbine, developed by Solar Aero Research of Greenville, New Hampshire, doesn't have blades. It doesn't look like a wind turbine, with majestic white arms spinning in the blue sky.
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How Can Solar Power & SRECs Turn Your Roof Into An ATM? (Video)
If you've ever heard the term SREC (that's ess-wreck) but had no idea what it referred to, let alone how you can profit from them while at the same time generating green electricity from your rooftop solar power system, then check out this short video
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Test-Driving the New All-Electric Smart Car
At Mercedes Benz World last week, while the men were test-driving Mercedes Benz sports cars on the test track, this TreeHugger was merrily chugging along in the new electric smart fortwo Smart Car which will be out at the end of
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California Conservatives Not 'Nudged' Into Conserving Energy
Here's an interesting twist on the conventional wisdom that if you give homeowners more information about the amount of energy they use, they'll naturally start conserving. New Scientist found a report which shows that
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Green:Net 2010: Microsoft and Google Swap Notes on How to Look at Energy Management Market (Video)
On a panel at Green:Net, Microsoft Hohm's Troy Batterberry and Google PowerMeter's Edward Lu talk about the very different perspectives the two companies take on the market for energy management. While Google sees this as an
