Tag: Energy Efficiency
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Epic debate: Amory Lovins vs. Charles C. Mann on the future of oil
Over the past few weeks, The Atlantic has been host to a public debate between Charles C. Mann and Amory B. Lovins about the future of oil and renewable energy and whether we'll see a decline in petroleum use any time soon.
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Facebook launches live data center efficiency dashboard
You can now view the energy and water efficiency performance of the company's North Carolina and Oregon data centers in real-time.
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Smart storage algorithms could cut data-center energy use by 20-50%
Now that digital video is ubiquitous, there are vast oceans of data being stored in gigantic data centers around the world. To ensure the accessibility and integrity of all that data, multiple copies of the files are being held, sometimes within the same
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Philips shows breakthrough 200 lumens/watt warm white LED lamp
Lighting represents a big chunk of electricity consumption (around 1/5), so finding more efficient ways to produce light has huge potential to help the environment.
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24.6 MPG: March 2013 was a record month for fuel economy in U.S.
The average fuel economy of new vehicles sold in the U.S. is still inching up month after month, hitting a new record of 24.6 MPG in March 2013.
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China increases 2020 fuel economy standard to 47 MPG
The U.S. fuel economy CAFE standards of 34.1 MPG by 2016 and 54.5 MPG by 2025 were an important step in the right direction after decades of near-stagnation, and others are starting to follow suit.
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New York Times' David Pogue: Start buying LED bulbs!
LED light-bulbs are on the cusp of going entirely mainstream. With every passing year, their energy-efficiency, light quality, and total lumens output is going up, while their cost keeps falling.
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New online game allows kids to design their own energy-efficient city
Design and create a virtual city of the future with this free city-building game from National Geographic, GE, and the Center for Science.
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'SuperTruck' has 54% better fuel economy than the average long-haul truck
Even if you've never driven a single mile in your entire life, a lot of what you own and what you eat has spent hundreds of miles inside a truck.
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U.S. fuel economy shows biggest gain since 1975
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its 2012 annual report on fuel economy for vehicles sold in the United States, and the results show that we're making some progress
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9 small (and one big) ways that big box stores can go green
Big box grocery stores aren't usually thought of as green. But from "people powered cash registers" to deliveries by barge, there are ways to make them greener.
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How the Nest thermostat is making a big impact
A new profile of the device's creators shows how the Nest has reinvented the thermostat.
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New more efficient US homes eat up as much energy as they did a decade ago, because they are 30% larger
The rebound effect, or Jevons' Paradox, once again rears its ugly head and eats up all of our energy savings.
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Floor to ceiling glass is not green.
It's time to stop pretending that you can build a building this way and call it green; Even the best glass is worse than a crappy wall.
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New Vehicle Average Fuel Economy Reaches Record 24.5 MPG in January 2013
The numbers are in for new vehicles sold in the U.S. during the month of January 2013, and while it's not spectacular, at least the trend is going in the right direction.
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Using Darwin to Develop More Efficient Solar Panels
Use of "artificial" natural selection can be used to trap light (photons) longer so that energy can be harvested more efficiently in organic solar cells.
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What Wastes Enough Energy to Power 2.5 Million Cars and Can be Seen From Space?
It's already bad enough that we create a lot of carbon pollution by doing useful things like heating our homes and moving people and goods around, do we also have to burn gigantic amounts of fossil fuels for no reason?
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Edison Has Last Laugh in Current Wars
And I am not an idiot. Direct current goes farther at lower cost in smaller wires.
