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At the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently I was also able to experience a test drive in the Vision EQXX ultra EV. Engineered in just 18 months and representing the most efficient Mercedes-Benz ever built, this experimental unit acts as a barometer for production EQ models, which may eventually inherit deviations from its technology, energy storage capabilities, and driving range. The development intention of the vehicle was to produce a battery with 100 kW capacity, lightweight construction, increased aero, and extreme efficiency. The result is an EV that achieves an extensive range of more than 745 miles on a single charge.
The Energy Efficiency Dashboard allows you to quickly view your location's energy information over the course of a month and assess if energy efficiency measures should be taken. Choose among active sites by selecting from the lefthand column.
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, celebrated each year on 17 May, marks the establishment of the International Telecommunication Union in 1865.
The theme for 2013 is ‘ICTs and Improving road safety’
According to the Report of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC), 1.3 million people die each year in traffic related accidents and another 20-50 million people are injured mainly in developing countries around the world. As a result, global economic loss is estimated at USD 518 billion.
Technology-related driver distraction and road-user behaviour, which includes “text messaging” and interfacing with in-vehicle navigation or communication systems while driving, are among the leading contributors to road traffic fatalities and injuries.
ITU looks towards its Members to harness the catalytic role of ICTs to enhance road safety and traffic management systems, eliminate unsafe technology-related distractions while driving, promote the development and use of safe user interfaces in vehicles
and develop Intelligent Transport Systems to improve the safety, management and efficiency of terrestrial transport, while reducing its environmental impact.
17 May 2013
ITU/ Rowan Farrell
Hear the atlantic surf from your private balcony in the oceanside efficiency with 2 queen beds and sleeper sofa.
Mercedes-Benz E350 CDI T Blue Efficiency Avantgarde on the day of delivery at Mercedes-Benz in Frankfurt (with flashlight).
Food service businesses (restaurants and grocery stores) use 2.5 times more energy than the average commercial business. Think about it: all the stoves, ovens, heat lamps, dish washers, refrigerators, and fryers turning out meal after meal, it makes sense that they are energy intensive. However, kitchens are also hectic places where simple energy wasters often get ignored in the hustle and bustle.
Richard Young, from the Food Service Technology Center in California, highlighted a long list of simple changes that food service businesses can make that can shave big bucks off their energy bills at his presentation at Dunwoody College on Monday March 21st. From stopping leaking faucets and closing ice maker lids all the way to replacing exhaust hoods and re-doing their lighting, businesses have a huge variety of opportunities, from small to large, free to expensive.
To learn more, visit mncerts.org.
How can we use open data to develop services that support communities to buy cheaper energy, use it more efficiently or potentially make their own?
This challenge invited teams including businesses, startups, social enterprises, community groups, academics, students and special interest groups to collaborate and compete with each other to use open data to build services that support communities to either:
- Group buy their energy and save money;
- Undertake community based energy efficiency interventions;
- Start to generate their own energy.
Food service businesses (restaurants and grocery stores) use 2.5 times more energy than the average commercial business. Think about it: all the stoves, ovens, heat lamps, dish washers, refrigerators, and fryers turning out meal after meal, it makes sense that they are energy intensive. However, kitchens are also hectic places where simple energy wasters often get ignored in the hustle and bustle.
Richard Young, from the Food Service Technology Center in California, highlighted a long list of simple changes that food service businesses can make that can shave big bucks off their energy bills at his presentation at Dunwoody College on Monday March 21st. From stopping leaking faucets and closing ice maker lids all the way to replacing exhaust hoods and re-doing their lighting, businesses have a huge variety of opportunities, from small to large, free to expensive.
To learn more, visit mncerts.org.
Food service businesses (restaurants and grocery stores) use 2.5 times more energy than the average commercial business. Think about it: all the stoves, ovens, heat lamps, dish washers, refrigerators, and fryers turning out meal after meal, it makes sense that they are energy intensive. However, kitchens are also hectic places where simple energy wasters often get ignored in the hustle and bustle.
Richard Young, from the Food Service Technology Center in California, highlighted a long list of simple changes that food service businesses can make that can shave big bucks off their energy bills at his presentation at Dunwoody College on Monday March 21st. From stopping leaking faucets and closing ice maker lids all the way to replacing exhaust hoods and re-doing their lighting, businesses have a huge variety of opportunities, from small to large, free to expensive.
To learn more, visit mncerts.org.
Comparing the latest BMW 1 Series with my own Clio and friends Volvo to see who rates highest in efficiency.
For the full article visit bit.ly/190vov
One Change's fuel efficiency campaign was at the Woodstock Canadian Tire location Sunday October 3, 2010 to distribute free digital tire gauges, with the help of volunteers! www.onechange.org
Left to right: Walter Hoefer, Long Island Power Authority; Philip Moschitta, Director, Northport VA Medical Center; LIPA Chief Operating Officer Michael D. Hervey; Maria Favale, Associate Director, Northport VA Medical Center; Lou Erichiello, Energy Manager, Northport VA Medical Center;
Food service businesses (restaurants and grocery stores) use 2.5 times more energy than the average commercial business. Think about it: all the stoves, ovens, heat lamps, dish washers, refrigerators, and fryers turning out meal after meal, it makes sense that they are energy intensive. However, kitchens are also hectic places where simple energy wasters often get ignored in the hustle and bustle.
Richard Young, from the Food Service Technology Center in California, highlighted a long list of simple changes that food service businesses can make that can shave big bucks off their energy bills at his presentation at Dunwoody College on Monday March 21st. From stopping leaking faucets and closing ice maker lids all the way to replacing exhaust hoods and re-doing their lighting, businesses have a huge variety of opportunities, from small to large, free to expensive.
To learn more, visit mncerts.org.
Energy Efficiency projects at a B&B in Langley: www.princessbb.com The owner has added insulation around his refrigerators to improve efficiency. This is one of many efficiency upgrades that along with a solar photovoltaic installation by VREC (www.vrec.ca) has made this B&B building close to net-zero.
Energy Efficiency Potential in Georgia
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At the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently I was also able to experience a test drive in the Vision EQXX ultra EV. Engineered in just 18 months and representing the most efficient Mercedes-Benz ever built, this experimental unit acts as a barometer for production EQ models, which may eventually inherit deviations from its technology, energy storage capabilities, and driving range. The development intention of the vehicle was to produce a battery with 100 kW capacity, lightweight construction, increased aero, and extreme efficiency. The result is an EV that achieves an extensive range of more than 745 miles on a single charge.
28.02.2013...Launch of Second National Energy Efficiency Action Plan at the Rotunda Hospital,Parnell Square,Dublin...Pic shows Energy Minister, Pat Rabbitte T.D., pictured with Dr. Brian Motherway, CEO of the SEAI and Master of the Rotunda, Dr Sam Coulter-Smith As he formally announced a €70m Energy Efficiency Fund that will dramatically improve energy efficiency savings in public and commercial buildings right across the country. As a key deliverable of the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs, the projections are that the Fund may deliver up to 675 jobs, direct and indirect, for every €10 million expenditure. The Fund is also a cornerstone of Ireland’s second National Energy Efficiency Action Plan and it will provide finance to energy efficiency projects across all sectors of the economy. The Minister also issued a call for Exemplar Projects from the public and private sectors; selected projects will receive technical assistance from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).Pic Maxwells Dublin No Fee Pic
E-commerce allows people to make transactions quickly and efficiently. While communities help users maintain friendships with little effort. The convenience of both these genres help put people at ease and plays a significant role in achieving peace
This home project was led by Peter Amerongen and included a team of 40 professionals that build an amazing net-zero home in 2007. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
Chasing net-zero Part 1: Net-zero 101
www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/78-chasing-net-zero-net...
Minnesota Senator Al Franken smiles as he thinks about energy efficiency.
Nearly 70 people joined Senator Al Franken and CERTs at Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Worthington on April 2, 2012 to discuss financing tools and opportunities that are currently available to local governments and business leaders.
1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V in the foreground, current-day Honda Civic in the background.
Andersonville, Chicago, Illinois.
Friday, October 14, 2011.
The Province will advance the goal of meeting the vast majority of BC’s new electricity demand through conservation by providing $100,000 to the Canadian Passive House Institute (CanPHI) West.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2015/03/province-funds-energy-effi...
Energy efficiency and lower heating bills and consumption of fuel or electricity in historic buildings can be achieved the old fashioned way with simple storm windows that are custom fit and properly fitted over older windows. This salvages original historic fabric and preserves the aesthetic look of early designs; it also conserves the energy and artisanal labor embodied in the crafting of the original windows. The Jay Heritage Center received 2 recent grants - one for $25,000 to fund capital improvements to the 1907 Van Norden Carriage House and another from Con Edison to create educational programs around the implementation of these measures - these are teachable moments about energy efficiency and adaptive reuse of historic structures.
Step 4: Milling the tenons.
Storm windows are a second layer of window. They reduce air movement in and out of the existing windows. They give you an extra barrier to keep out wind and cold in the winter. According to the US Department of Energy, storm windows can help better insulate a home and reduce heating loss by up to 50%.
Photo credit: Bruce MacDonald/Ashwood Restoration & JHC Archives
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Energy efficiency and lower heating bills and consumption of fuel or electricity in historic buildings can be achieved the old fashioned way with simple storm windows that are custom fit and properly fitted over older windows. This salvages original historic fabric and preserves the aesthetic look of early designs; it also conserves the energy and artisanal labor embodied in the crafting of the original windows. The Jay Heritage Center received 2 recent grants - one for $25,000 to fund capital improvements to the 1907 Van Norden Carriage House and another from Con Edison to create educational programs around the implementation of these measures - these are teachable moments about energy efficiency and adaptive reuse of historic structures.
Step 1: The design and the execution is key. Bruce MacDonald of Ashwood Restoration has been working on the preservation of buildings at the Jay Property for almost 2 decades. His expertise and knowledge of historic details and materials is invaluable. Here he designs storm windows
Storm windows are a second layer of window. They reduce air movement in and out of the existing windows. They give you an extra barrier to keep out wind and cold in the winter. According to the US Department of Energy, storm windows can help better insulate a home and reduce heating loss by up to 50%.
Photo credit: Bruce MacDonald/Ashwood Restoration & JHC Archives
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com
Follow and like us on:
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Food service businesses (restaurants and grocery stores) use 2.5 times more energy than the average commercial business. Think about it: all the stoves, ovens, heat lamps, dish washers, refrigerators, and fryers turning out meal after meal, it makes sense that they are energy intensive. However, kitchens are also hectic places where simple energy wasters often get ignored in the hustle and bustle.
Richard Young, from the Food Service Technology Center in California, highlighted a long list of simple changes that food service businesses can make that can shave big bucks off their energy bills at his presentation at Dunwoody College on Monday March 21st. From stopping leaking faucets and closing ice maker lids all the way to replacing exhaust hoods and re-doing their lighting, businesses have a huge variety of opportunities, from small to large, free to expensive.
To learn more, visit mncerts.org.
Arizona Daily Star Article-From ground up, new home is model of energy efficiency....By Dan Sorenson Arizona Daily Star
At first glance, there's nothing about this new 2,000-square-foot house in Civano, other than a rooftop solar panel, to suggest it's unusual. But an occupant would get the picture, in vivid green, when the laughable utility bills arrived.
The ultra-energy-efficient home uses state-of-the-art materials and techniques to cut energy consumption to one-fifth that of a new home built to current building codes, according to Richard Barna, director of building sciences and green building for Pepper Viner Homes.
Known as the Pepper Viner/BASF High-Performance Home, it is a collaboration between the local home builder and BASF, an international chemical and building materials firm. It combines state-of-the-art insulation, solar water and space heating, building materials that don't give off noxious gases, a vapor barrier under the slab, recycled tile, and graywater and rainwater conservation systems.
The house on Tucson's southeast side will be open for a public tour at Civano North Ridge today. But many of the features are not readily apparent.
The house's SIPS (Structural Insulated Panels) modular-wall construction system virtually eliminates leaks and attains a near R-30 insulation rating, according to Barna. The modular system uses large sections of polystyrene sandwiched between sustainable wafer board for exterior walls. Window and door openings are pre-cut at the factory to builder specifications. But Barna said the SIPS walls look like ordinary 2x6 stud walls.
One of the two new types of BASF foam insulation used in the demonstration house may soon offer a solution for old desert houses with inadequate roof insulation, Barna said.
The spray-on insulation has a hard surface — hard enough to walk upon — and a soft open-cell interior. So it could be sprayed on top of an old flat roof, instead of removing the old roof and installing four or six inches of new insulation between the joists or rafters. It would save the cost of removing and replacing the old roof, and provide better insulation, Barna said. It is not yet available locally.
The house also uses all nontoxic materials — adhesives, sealants and wood composites for cabinets — and will meet the new federal interior air standards.
The floors are all polished and dyed concrete. The concrete uses roughly twice the normal amount of fly ash, a recycled material used to replace cement in concrete.
Outside the house the landscaping uses a rainwater collection system hooked up to an automatic watering system that is tied into a weather network that bases watering times and amounts on weather conditions. Trees are watered using an active graywater system that pumps water from drains and sinks to a network of pipes two to three feet underground, to deep-water trees. The graywater isn't collected and held, eliminating storage problems, but is used as soon as it is detected in the system, Barna said.
Bill Viner of Pepper Viner said some of the technologies and building materials are already in use, and that he expects more will be in demand, and supplied, when the housing industry picks up after the recession.
"Not only will there be greater demand, but I think the builders will do it because it's the right thing to do," Viner said.
He wouldn't estimate the house's value, or what it would cost to reproduce it, but he said a similar floor plan house in Civano North Ridge development sells for $299,900.
And he said other houses in the development already use some of the methods to meet a standard based on heating and cooling costs-savings of at least 50 percent of that of a conventional home.
Viner said the demonstration home is under consideration for the top (platinum) rating in the national green building certification system, LEED. And he said it was already awarded the Pima County certification system's top (emerald) rating.
Carl Lauren, owner of Tyee Homes in Kimberley B.C. uses energy efficiency systems such as on-demand hot water heaters and good insulation to build homes between EnergyGuide 83 and 90. Under Kimberley's creative energy efficiency program his homes will get a rebate of between $1,500 and $2,000 on the building permit fees depending on how high the EnerGuide rating is when the home is complete. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Full story: www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/kimberley-green-buildin...
Mercedes-Benz E350 CDI T Blue Efficiency Avantgarde on the day of delivery at Mercedes-Benz in Frankfurt.
At the IEA Publications Stand at the Paris climate talks are, from left, Janet Pape of the Energy Markets and Security Directorate's Gas, Coal and Power Division, Sacha Scheffer of the Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology Directorate's Energy Efficiency Unit and Ida Stuve of the Office of Global Energy Policy's International Partnerships and Initiatives Division.
Photo by George Kamiya
10149 Gulf Boulevard, Treasure Island, St. Petersburg, Florida 33706
All units heat/air-conditioned, cable T.V., 1 and 2 room efficiencies with completely furnished kitchens and motel rooms. Swimming pool, Shuffleboard court, Private fishing pier & dock. Access to Gulf Beach; On Bus Route; near Shopping & Restaurants.
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Main characteristics of the pilot construction of our UNDP Project. It explains measures (heat recovery ventilation system, EE windows and other) proposed by the Project and their expected heat consumption reduction (30%).
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On Earth Day 2012, MTA Chairman Joseph J. Lhota, right, announced that every trip New Yorkers make on an MTA train, subway or bus prevents an average of more than 10 pounds of carbon from entering the atmosphere, according to a new report. The MTA's efficiency is made possible with support from the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA). NYSERDA President and CEO Francis J. Murray is at the lectern. At left is Gil C. Quiniones, President and CEO of NYPA. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
255 South Champlain Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • Interior shot of the offices of Efficiency Vermont:
WHO WE ARE - Efficiency Vermont is the nation's first statewide provider of energy efficiency services. We're operated by an independent, non-profit organization under contract to the Vermont Public Service Board.
WHAT WE DO - Efficiency Vermont provides technical assistance and financial incentives to Vermont households and businesses, to help them reduce their energy costs with energy-efficient equipment and lighting and with energy-efficient approaches to construction and renovation.
Food service businesses (restaurants and grocery stores) use 2.5 times more energy than the average commercial business. Think about it: all the stoves, ovens, heat lamps, dish washers, refrigerators, and fryers turning out meal after meal, it makes sense that they are energy intensive. However, kitchens are also hectic places where simple energy wasters often get ignored in the hustle and bustle.
Richard Young, from the Food Service Technology Center in California, highlighted a long list of simple changes that food service businesses can make that can shave big bucks off their energy bills at his presentation at Dunwoody College on Monday March 21st. From stopping leaking faucets and closing ice maker lids all the way to replacing exhaust hoods and re-doing their lighting, businesses have a huge variety of opportunities, from small to large, free to expensive.
To learn more, visit mncerts.org.
www.zok.com ZOK International Group, manufacturers and distributors of ZOK 27 compressor cleaner, turbine cleaner and engine cleaner – resulting in better gas turbine performance and gas turbine efficiency.
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