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LIPA partners with UPS to install energy efficient lighting fixtures at its Farmingdale, Uniondale and Melville facilities.
Hospital with installed solar panels on their rooftop in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The Energy Efficiency Project aims to reduce energy consumption in the residential, commercial and public sectors through the implementation of energy efficiency measures.
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In our tree nursery, which we have established in 2015, ten workers grow more than 4 million seedlings with the highest quality standards.
Until 2029 there will be 100 Million trees grown, planted and cared for. If 10.000 projects copy us, the trillion trees will bind a quarter of the human made CO2.
More than 100,000 people are served each year by the Elizabethtown-based Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland. The organization expects to save $8,874 a year on energy costs through its efficiency projects, which it says is enough to provide an additional 62,118 meals for the community. The group will use its $41,883 grant from the Walmart Foundation to tighten the seals around its freezer and refrigeration equipment and upgrade to more efficient lighting and heating and air conditioning technologies. For more information about Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland, visit their website www.feedingamericaky.org.
Demolition started on the old Millers building on a walk around Christchurch May 6, 2013 New Zealand.
The building was originally designed in 1935 by G. A. Hart for the retail store, factory and warehouse Millers and was completed in 1939. It was notable for its structural design concept of beamless floor slab construction in reinforced concrete where the design loads, including earthquake forces, are transferred to the hexagonal columns by mushroom-shaped heads and drop slabs.
This concept was originated by a French Swiss engineer, Robert Maillart around 1912 and was further developed in the 1920s by the Bauhaus in Germany under the architects, Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius.
Millers Department Store, 1939-1979
Millers was a well established retail and manufacturing business with many branch shops. The building was their head office, factory and main retail store. It boasted the first escalator in the South Island and one of the first in New Zealand. When the building was put up for sale in 1978 the council purchased it to refurbish as Civic Offices.
Conversion to civic offices
When planning for this, its fourth home, the Christchurch City Council initially had plans to erect new offices adjacent to the Christchurch Town Hall but inflation rendered this impractical. Conversion of the building had a number of advantages. Re-housing the staff from nine separate locations to provide a better service to the public, enhancing efficiency and improving staff working conditions was obvious enough, but additionally, some millions of dollars would be injected promptly into the local construction industry at a time when it was most needed. Also, just as the Town Hall had provided an impetus for development north of the Cathedral Square, the new Civic Offices were expected to do the same for the south. As far as public buildings were concerned, the south-eastern quadrant of the central business district had been rather neglected in the past. Finally, in an era concerned with conservation there seemed to be considerable virtue in recycling a sound existing building rather than building a new one.
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Energy efficiency was enhanced at the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I Atomic Museum by installing a new "cool roof." In fact, the roof reflects so much light that it is difficult to photograph.
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Deputy Chief Ron Vitiello testifies at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce hearing on, “Examining the Use and Abuse of Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUO) at the Department of Homeland Security. Photo By James Tourtellotte.
This campaign wants to raise awareness for energy efficient heating. Even though many inhabitants of Bern consider this important...
On August 27 1918 the National Efficiency Board was given power to ban businesses from competing with a business run by a war veteran. Businesses could form a Soldier’s Board of Trustees to help protect a business if a soldier was still serving or unable to resume control of a business upon their return.
The correspondence shown here is from a National Efficiency Board file relating to the protection of businesses in WW1. There was a dispute between G.F Sievers and Eastbourne Council in September 1918 as they planned to run a bus service in competition to Mr. Siever’s bus run. As he had not established a Board of Trustees in his absence , as per the instructions of August 27 1918, the council had the right to set up their own. The file also includes a petition from Eastbourne residents in support of Mr Siever’s bus service.
The National Efficiency Board was constituted on 27 February 1917, and formally established by an Order-in-Council on 5 March 1917. It came into existence due to a perceived need for the re-organisation and development of industries in New Zealand during the First World War. At this time the workforce had been greatly depleted by the war, and so there was a real need to investigate methods for increasing productivity, and to use existing capital to the best advantage in essential industries. It was thought that these tasks would best be accomplished with the assistance of the most capable businessmen in the country and so the creation of a national board to advise on these issues was proposed. Its purpose would be to inquire into provisions to enforce economy and increase efficiency, and to determine if further legislation would be required to accomplish these aims. In October 1917, several months after the board was initially established, a second Order-in-Council was passed, which reconstituted the board under the Prime Minister, William Ferguson Massey, and the Minister of Finance, Sir Joseph George Ward.
Archives New Zealand Reference: ADRE 17315 NEB1 22 1217
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The hundreds of trolleys are being placed neatly and efficiently so that passengers can quicky take a trolley, place their luggage and go.
Totally Singapore.
So the improvement means you're not telling us when the last collection is any more, only that it might be at 9 in the morning?
Deputy Chief Ron Vitiello testifies at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce hearing on, “Examining the Use and Abuse of Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUO) at the Department of Homeland Security. Photo By James Tourtellotte.
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Featured in a Messenger story on quality engineers and efficiency and they want to feature 4 areas that have shown improvement. Patient wait times for CT scans has been shortened. Joyce Roberts prepares a patient for a CT scan.
The BCT 13/02 Achilles and Leander Divisions compete for the Efficiency Cup at the Tamaki Leadership Centre, Whangaparaoa, 19 July 2013.
In the office for a few days and got my little set up cookin. Since I am the UI developer, I get to use Belle at the office. I leave the middle laptop here and remote into it. The monitor is mine to take home!
Ohioans are battling a move by the fossil fuel industry to freeze the state's clean energy and energy efficiency standards: sc.org/1m9Uk14
View of social housing appartement bloks at Fal-El-Hanaa residence in the city of Casablanca, on February 14, 2014.The buildings have been renovated, the windows have been changed, apartments were isolated and solar panels to heat water installed on the roofs of houses. Fal El Hanna buildings were co-financed by the European Community.
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Coal and natural gas cost effective vs. energy efficiency, wind, and solar power? --Stephanie Coffin @ SO 2013-05-22
Pictures by for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, .
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The Philippine Energy Efficiency Project has distributed compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) nationwide in exchange for their incandescent bulbs. Each CFL is expected to save customers 400 pesos, around $8.50, each year for the next 7 to 10 years.
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The school, before going energy-efficient.
From the 15th to the 19th of April, The Assistant Administrator and Regional Director of the UNDP Bureau for Europe and the Commonweal of Independent States - Ms. Cihan Sultanoglu visited Uzbekistan. During her visit she spoke at the International Conference on ‘Modern rural housing as the most important engine of comprehensive development of associated industries and services transforming the look of rural areas and the mentality of the people’ and visited UNDP project sites throughout Uzbekistan.
In Karakalpakstan Ms. Sultanoglu visited a school which has been reconstructed with energy-efficient technical features (through the ‘Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings’ project).
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A global train-the-trainer workshop on energy efficiency has been delivered in China (23-27 May), preparing the personnel needed to cascade knowledge on energy efficiency for ships and related efforts for mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) from national and international shipping.
The five-day intensive course was organized by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), within the framework of the Global Maritime Energy Efficiency Partnerships (GloMEEP) Project. The workshop was co-hosted by the China Maritime Safety Administration (China MSA) and Dalian Maritime University (DMU). The GloMEEP Project, aims to support increased uptake and implementation of energy-efficiency measures for shipping. China is one of the ten lead partner countries implementing the GloMEEP project.
The 30 participants on the course (including two from each GloMEEP lead partner country and ten further national participants from China) have undergone training in the art and techniques of knowledge transfer in a class room environment, particularly aimed at adult learners, alongside comprehensive technical training on energy efficient ship operation and the regulatory requirements,
Welcoming the trainers on the course, Dr. Jose Matheickal, Head of Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme Implementation and Major Projects, Marine Environment Division, IMO, referred to the challenges set by the Paris Climate Change Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and recalled that IMO has adopted mandatory energy-efficiency measures under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution (MARPOL) Annex VI. These regulations made mandatory the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for certain types of new ships, and the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) for all ships.
“We have a long way to go and the road ahead is challenging for many developing countries who may not have the necessary capacity to implement and enforce these measures. To increase the impact of these measures and to ensure that no one is left behind, we need to enhance the capacity in all countries in all aspects of implementation of MARPOL Annex VI. We need the capable trainers, such as you, who have been handpicked by your Governments to be the trainers of the future; we need universities such as Dalian Maritime University to sustain the momentum created through such activities by incorporating such training in their regular curriculum; we need students such as you who will get trained and use this information in your future maritime careers and to contribute to the efforts by sharing the knowledge to make informed choices and the right decisions. Collectively we can train the world so that collectively we can ensure the future of our planet,” Dr Matheickal said.
“I consider this activity to be a milestone event for IMO where we continue to build and strengthen the foundation for capacity building by growing the pool of trainers around the world. It shows the commitment of IMO to respond to the needs of our member States to support effective implementation of the international regulations on energy efficiency for ships,” commented Dr Stefan Micallef, Director of IMO’s Marine Environment Division.
The workshop was facilitated by international and national experts on ships’ energy efficiency and was coordinated by the Programme Coordination Unit of GloMEEP, led by Ms Astrid Dispert, Technical Advisor to the GloMEEP Project.
Photos can be downloaded here.
GloMEEP
GloMEEP is a GEF-UNDP-IMO project aimed at supporting the uptake and implementation of energy efficiency measures for shipping, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. It supports ten Lead Pilot Countries of the project to implement the IMO-adopted measures, through:
1.Legal, policy and institutional reforms;
2.Awareness raising and capacity-building activities; and
3.Establishment of public-private partnerships to encourage technology transfer.
The Lead Pilot Countries (LPCs) of the GloMEEP Project are: Argentina, China, Georgia, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Morocco, Panama, Philippines and South Africa.
Further information on GloMEEP can be found here.
The IMO Train the Trainer Course on Energy Efficient Ship Operation can be downloaded here. The six modules cover:
•Module 1: Climate change and the shipping response
•Module 2: IMO energy efficiency regulations and related guidelines
•Module 3: From management to operation
•Module 4: Ship board energy management
•Module 5: Ship port interface and energy efficiency
•Module 6: Energy management plans and systems
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IMO – the International Maritime Organization – is the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of pollution by ships.
Web site: www.imo.org
With it's 1.7 CRDi engine, the Kia Optima is capable of 57.6mpg combined.
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The school, after going energy-efficient.
From the 15th to the 19th of April, The Assistant Administrator and Regional Director of the UNDP Bureau for Europe and the Commonweal of Independent States - Ms. Cihan Sultanoglu visited Uzbekistan. During her visit she spoke at the International Conference on ‘Modern rural housing as the most important engine of comprehensive development of associated industries and services transforming the look of rural areas and the mentality of the people’ and visited UNDP project sites throughout Uzbekistan.
In Karakalpakstan Ms. Sultanoglu visited a school which has been reconstructed with energy-efficient technical features (through the ‘Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings’ project).
Learn more about Energy and Environment in Europe and Central Asia
Playing the dutor to celebrate an energy-efficient school.
From the 15th to the 19th of April, The Assistant Administrator and Regional Director of the UNDP Bureau for Europe and the Commonweal of Independent States - Ms. Cihan Sultanoglu visited Uzbekistan. During her visit she spoke at the International Conference on ‘Modern rural housing as the most important engine of comprehensive development of associated industries and services transforming the look of rural areas and the mentality of the people’ and visited UNDP project sites throughout Uzbekistan.
In Karakalpakstan Ms. Sultanoglu visited a school which has been reconstructed with energy-efficient technical features (through the ‘Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings’ project).
Learn more about Energy and Environment in Europe and Central Asia
Sept 20, 2015: Varying diameter holes all drilled and chamfered. Now I'm drilling a bunch of 1/8 in. holes in the 1018 cold rolled steel bars. In a few weeks I'll be doing this operation to a batch of 400 parts! We used to do these in a fixture but it was a real pain, requiring two machinists, two drill presses and two fixtures to be efficient. Now the cnc does the grunt work and the rest can be done later, by one person, on a drill press.
PS for some reason I don't understand the second half of this video seems to have been cut off!
The Philippine Energy Efficiency Project has distributed compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) nationwide in exchange for their incandescent bulbs. Each CFL is expected to save customers 400 pesos, around $8.50, each year for the next 7 to 10 years.
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Read the full video of Wing Chun Bong Sao Technique based on Maximum Efficiency, HERE:
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You've seen how the Ip Man Movie have sparks the growth of Wing Chun Kung Fu worldwide. Now learn how to use Wing Chun techniques using HKB Eng Chun [Black Flag Wing Chun] to achieve maximum efficiency of time, space and energy, from this Wing Chun Video.
In this Wing Chun Training video, Grand Master Kenneth Lin demonstrates how to use the HKB Wing Chun Combat Formula [Originated from late GM Kwee King Yang's teaching of Kao Kuat / 口訣] to achieve the maximum combat efficiency using the basic Wing Chun Bong Sao Technique [Bong Jiu / 膀手] both in deflecting as well as in Occupying time, becoming space and releasing an impulse energy.
Many times, in most Wing Chun mainstream lineage, focusing using offense as defense. In this video, Grand Master Kenneth Lin demonstrated how to achieve maximum efficiency using HKB Combat formula on applying that offense as defense idea.
Note: Within this video, GM Kenneth Lin made a comparison between the common use Wing Chun Bong Sao [膀手] from mainstream Wing Chun and showcase the Black Flag Wing Chun perspective of Bong Jiu / 膀手 [Bong Sao]. Please be noted that this does not mean one is better or less than another, it should be up to you to decide which fit you the most.
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The engineer Jean-Albert Grégoire used to say that the mechanical truth is always beautiful. Of all his cars, the SOCEMA Gregory was the most aerodynamically efficient and thus was the most beautiful in his eyes.Jean-Albert Grégoire has always endeavored to prefer the aerodynamic efficiency of the excesses of the stylists. His belief was that the mechanical truth would eventually be imposed on everyone, including the flashy cars and futile lovers. And so drivers would come to prefer a well profiled winning car in pure speed and sobriety.
L’ingénieur Jean-Albert Grégoire avait coutume de dire que la vérité mécanique est toujours belle. De toutes ses autos, la SOCEMA-Grégoire fut la plus efficace sur le plan aérodynamique et, partant, fut la plus belle à ses yeux.L’événement est de taille. La SOCEMA-Grégoire quitte le Musée Automobile de la Sarthe, près du Circuit des Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans, pour venir à la rencontre du grand public. L’occasion pour les amateurs d’automobiles anciennes de découvrir un pan de l’œuvre de cet ingénieur exceptionnel.Dans l’un de ses derniers ouvrages paru en 1985 ("Des Autos et des Mots", La Table Ronde), celui qui fut à la fois ingénieur automobile, critique d’art ou encore écrivain romancier parle affectueusement de la SOCEMA-Grégoire. A ses yeux, elle est la plus belle création de sa carrière. Ce qui n’est pas peu dire !Jean-Albert Grégoire s’est toujours efforcé de préférer l’efficacité aérodynamique aux excès des stylistes. Sa conviction était que la vérité mécanique allait tôt ou tard s’imposer à tous, y compris aux amateurs d’autos clinquantes et futiles. Et qu’ainsi les conducteurs viendraient à préférer une voiture bien profilée gagnant en vitesse pure et en sobriété.Au sortir de la vogue de "l’aérodynamisme" empirique née dans les années 30, J.-A. Grégoire pensait avec raison que le public était mûr pour des formes plus "scientifiques". Il aurait suffit aux constructeurs de faire un petit effort de pédagogie pour faire accepter des carrosseries aux lignes pourtant choquantes.Ce raisonnement fut plusieurs fois vérifié au cours des décennies qui suivirent la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, la plus belle démonstration ayant été faite par Citroën. Sa DS fut qualifiée de "bizarre" avant que ne soit reconnue sa beauté par le plus grand nombre. Une "beauté" en grande partie façonnée par le vent, qui légitimait des formes inédites.Malheureusement, l’Histoire n’accorda pas suffisamment de temps à une autre automobile révolutionnaire pour imposer sa silhouette dans le paysage automobile français. Construite à seulement 253 exemplaires, l’Hotchkiss-Grégoire tomba victime des réticences de Peugeot, l’un des repreneurs de la vieille firme de la rue d’Ivry.Terriblement déçu de voir brisé net l’envol commercial de cette berline aux qualités reconnues par la presse et par la clientèle, J.-A. Grégoire accepta la proposition des dirigeants de la S.O.C.E.M.A. (Société de Constructions et d’Equipements Mécaniques pour l’Aviation) qui s’intéressaient alors à la locomotion terrestre. Il s’agissait ni plus ni moins de concevoir et de fabriquer la première voiture à turbine française. Un projet dans lequel J.-A. Grégoire s’investit totalement, malgré sa pleine connaissance des limites pratiques d’une telle mécanique (lire notre encadré).Son but ? Démontrer une fois de plus la pertinence des quatre grands principes à la base de sa conception de l’automobile moderne : - les roues avant motrices - le centrage des masses, avec le moteur et la transmission en porte-à-faux avant - la carcasse en aluminium coulé, plus rigide et plus légère que les coques en acier d’alors - la finesse aérodynamique, qui autorise des vitesses élevées pour une consommation remarquablement basse.Après la petite voiture l’Aluminium Français-Grégoire (l’AF-G) conçue pendant l’Occupation, l’Hotchkiss-Grégoire fut la première auto à rassembler et à proposer en série toutes ces solutions techniques. A ce titre, J.-A. Grégoire la considérait comme son œuvre maîtresse. L’histoire de la SOCEMA-Grégoire est intimement liée à celle de l’Hotchkiss-Grégoire en ce qu’elle est la transposition quasi fidèle de son architecture mécanique. A ce détail près que le quatre cylindres à plat fut remplacé par une turbine "miniaturisée".La difficulté d’adapter ce moteur d’un nouveau genre n’était sans doute pas pour déplaire à J.-A. Grégoire, puisque son faible encombrement autorisait en contrepartie l’abaissement du capot et la réduction du maître-couple (ie. la surface qui s’oppose à la pénétration dans l’air).Le célèbre ingénieur confia le dessin de la SOCEMA-Grégoire à son collaborateur Carlo Delaisse et la fabrication de la carrosserie aux compagnons formeurs de chez Hotchkiss. Cette fine équipe obtint un coefficient de pénétration dans l’air encore plus faible que celui de l’Hotchkiss-Grégoire, aujourd’hui encore remarquable (Cx de 0,20) et tout bonnement insoupçonnable à la vue de l’auto.C’est Jean-Albert Grégoire qui se chargea lui-même de la mise au point du châssis en aluminium coulé. Voici comment il rapporte les faits dans son ouvrage précité : "Le châssis construit, je décidai de l’essayer longuement avant d’y placer la turbine. Ainsi pourrions-nous apporter toutes garanties pour notre mécanique. Nous achetâmes un moteur V8 Ford français de l’époque qui développait cent chevaux et je le fis monter devant le train avant, en porte-à-faux. Avec deux baquets, un coffre en bois à l’arrière et quatre ailes symboliques, l’excédent de poids était très important. La tenue de route de ce véhicule à l’aspect bizarre se révéla remarquable, ce qui confirmait ma théorie que la surcharge de l’avant est toujours favorable."La turbine fut ensuite installée dans la carcasse en aluminium coulé. A l’issue d’un premier essai, les dirigeants de la SOCEMA se déclarèrent enchantés des qualités routières de l’engin, assez exceptionnelles pour l’époque. Le coupé peint en bleu métallisé fut exposé au Salon de Paris de 1953, où il rencontra un vif succès auprès du public.La suite des événements mit fin de manière brutale —là encore— aux travaux de Jean-Albert Grégoire. Les nouveaux dirigeants de la SOCEMA perdirent soudainement tout intérêt dans ce projet et la voiture demeura au stade de prototype unique. J.-A. Grégoire estima que c’était là un manque de courage et de clairvoyance de la part de ces industriels français. Mais c’était trop compter sur l’avenir qui, idéalement, aurait apporté la solution à tous les problèmes de mise au point de la turbine appliquée à l’automobile. Tâche à laquelle les bureaux d’études de Rover, Renault ou encore de Chrysler renoncèrent tous au cours des années 50 et 60. La SOCEMA-Grégoire est aujourd’hui la propriété de l’Automobile Club de l’Ouest et coule une paisible retraite dans le musée du Circuit des 24H.
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Excuse me while I rant a little bit.... I wish so badly that LL would implement a way to punish people who put out such terrible content. There's way too many massively popular stores that release non-stop streams of FPS-tanking content.
Don't even get me started on no-mod products and shit like "anti-rez" scripts.... that's a whole other rant.
Terry McCallion, Director Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, EBRD in a group picture with Anthony Nyong, Director for Climate Change and Green Growth, African Development Bank; Gernot Laganda, Chief / Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes, World Food Programme; Amadou Thierno Diallo, Acting Director-General, Global Practices; Woochong Um, Director-General Sustainable Development, and Climate Change; Laura Tuck, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank; Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland; Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund and the delegates during the event on "Alliance for Hydromet Development" at the Conference of the Parties (COP - 25) 2019 on December 10, 2019, in Madrid, Spain.