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Governor Kay Ivey gave opening remarks to the Government Efficiency Study Group Thursday February 16, 2023 in Montgomery, Ala. (Governor’s Office /Hal Yeager)
On Earth Day 2012, MTA Chairman Joseph J. Lhota 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 helped by new energy-saving lights used to light subway track work sites, on display at left, compared with older track work lights. The lights are made possible with support from the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA). Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
May 10, 2010 Science at the Theater: The House of the Future.
See what it will take to create tomorrow's net-zero energy home as scientists reveal the secrets of cool roofs, smart windows, and computer-driven energy control systems.
The net-zero energy home
Scientists are working to make tomorrow's homes more than just energy efficient -- they want them to be zero energy. Iain Walker, a scientist in the Lab's Energy Performance of Buildings Group, will discuss what it takes to develop net-zero energy houses that generate as much energy as they use through highly aggressive energy efficiency and on-site renewable energy generation.
Talking back to the grid
Imagine programming your house to use less energy if the electricity grid is full or price are high. Mary Ann Piette, deputy director of Berkeley Lab's building technology department and director of the Lab's Demand Response Research Center, will discuss how new technologies are enabling buildings to listen to the grid and automatically change their thermostat settings or lighting loads, among other demands, in response to fluctuating electricity prices.
The networked (and energy efficient) house
In the future, your home's lights, climate control devices, computers, windows, and appliances could be controlled via a sophisticated digital network. If it's plugged in, it'll be connected. Bruce Nordman, an energy scientist in Berkeley Lab's Energy End-Use Forecasting group, will discuss how he and other scientists are working to ensure these networks help homeowners save energy.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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High efficiency furnace PVC vent pipe and a natural draft water heater vent / single wall liner are not permitted in the same chimney flue. Such installation could result in PVC vent pipe damage / melting. By Darek Rudnicki www.checkthishouse.com/72/chimney-flue-furnace-water-heat...
Flyer for small businesses in Egleston, MA to save money by conserving electricity. I designed and helped to distribute the flyer as a volunteer project for the Egleston Main Street organization. Fun project and great organization!
Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
AEEA Conference, Calgary Jan. 29 2014
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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.
Mercedes E200 CGi Blue Efficiency (2009-on) Engine 1796cc S4 Turbo charged
Registration Number FD 10 NWR
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The W212 E class saloon was launched in Europe in 2009 as a 2010 model year car.
The E200 is the entry level car of the model range powered by a turbo charged straight four petrol engine of 1796cc developing 181bhp
The new E-Class features several new safety technologies including driver fatigue detection, lane-departure warning, and traffic-sign recognition. It also includes features that improve performance, efficiency, and comfort, such as "Direct Control" adaptive suspension, active seats (which change shape to support the passengers in corners), and movable radiator louvers which improve the vehicle's aerodynamics. Standard Mercedes-Benz safety and convenience features, such as the Electronic Stability Program (ESP), airbags, and automatic climate control, are included as well.
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Efficiencies - Hotel Rooms - Apartments.
1135 N. Federal Highway.
52 Modern units..one of the South's Finest Motels..Phones in every room..Heated Fresh Water Swimming Pool..Shuffleboard Courts..Air-Conditioned Restaurant..Individually Controlled Air-Conditioning and hot water heat..Parking at your front door..Daily Maid Service and all utilities furnished..3 minutes to the Beach and downtown shopping center. AAA approved. Owner - C.K. Walker, Owners - Fred and Iva Ballard, Mgrs.
Valence Color Studios
Miami, Florida
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06.12.2018 Polish Pavilion - Energy Efficiency
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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.
I'm sorry for the accidental hideous flash. This is what sitting at my desk invariabaly turns into -- Ding Dong Dobie playtime!
This week is sheer madness at work. This afternoon I'm taking a short break to get my hairy gorilla legs waxed. Adding to the madness are three count 'em THREE Gonzaga basketball games week! So, my selfies are probably gonna be rushed and dumb and sport attractive bonus features like spit strings for a while, but that's life. :)
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.
Demonstrating the efficiency of Bear Run Mine's double-loop loadout configuration, a loaded INRD coal train bound for Wabash River Generating Station departs off the inside loop shortly after the arrival on the outside loop of a CSX empty from Cayuga Generating Station.
Dean Talbott of Duluth Energy Efficiency Program (DEEP) presented 4-7-11 at a NE CERT Meeting on Energy Efficiency. Learn more about DEEP and how its programs can help you and your community save energy and money at duluthenergy.org.
Aerial view of Melipilla, Chile
The Energy Efficiency and Self-Supply Renewable Energy Program project has introduced energy efficient lighting to communities around Chile (Clean Technology Fund – CTF)
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On Earth Day 2012, MTA Chairman Joseph J. Lhota 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 carbon saved by one round-trip ride equals the amount emitted by burning 7 pounds of coal, pictured here. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Photo Duncan Kinney, Green Energy Futures
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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.
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.
Mercedes-Benz E350 CDI T Blue Efficiency Avantgarde on the day of delivery at Mercedes-Benz in Frankfurt.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-41
FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY: Selected Agencies Plan to Use Workforce Mobility to Reduce Space, but Most Efforts Are Too New to Have Realized Savings
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 2: Milling the stock - cedar wood is being used for its weatherproof qualities and light weight.
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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Mercedes GL350 CDi Blue Efficiency (2006-12) Engine 3000cc V6 CDi
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The GL class is a full size SUV crossover vehicle, introduced in 2006 by Mercedes at the North American International Show. Built for the American market and built in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA and Toluca, Mexico, it is the 7 passenger counterpart to the M class.
Originally available as a GL420 with a 4.0ltr V8 Diesel, dropped from the range for 2011, and GL450 and GL550 (GL500 in Europe) with 4.7 and 5.5ltr. V8 petrol engines. and this GL350 CDi V6 Diesel.
The GL350 Blue Tec features a 3.0ltr 210bhp turbocharged V6 with a reduction in NOx emissions of 80%. This vehicle was priced with extras at £ 66,630
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The standard list of energy efficient features in a new Landmark home is impressive, but it is also constantly evolving as technology improves and the cost of energy efficiency comes down. Photo from a Landmark brochure, 2014
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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.
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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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.
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Lt. Governor Karyn Polito joins state and local officials to celebrate the announcement of the FY22 Community Compact Efficiency & Regionalization Grant Program awards at Buckland Town Hall on March 24, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
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.
This is one of my slides from a recent talk I gave on Cloud Computing in Athens (full talk is at www.slideshare.net/TomRaftery/cloud-computings-green-pote...).
PUE (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness) is a widely used metric to measure how efficient data centers are. However it is a poor measure.
Consider the example above - in the first row, a typical data center has a total power draw of 2MW. Of which 1MW goes to the IT equipment. This results in a PUE of 2.0.
If the data center owner then goes on an efficiency drive and reduces the IT equipment energy draw by .25MW (by turning off old servers, virtualising, etc.), then the total draw drops to 1.75MW but the PUE goes up to 2.33.
When lower PUE's are considered better (1.0 is the theoretical max), this is a ludicrous situation.