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Hans De Keulenaer

Outdoor Heaters - Warming the World, Literally! » Celsias - 0 views

  • According to today’s article by Michael Howie in Scotsman.com, the Trust is “calling on responsible retailers to reconsider the sale of patio heaters in light of the substantial amount of carbon emissions they produce.”
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    Come on - let's take care of our first top 200 priorities, then take care of this one!
Hans De Keulenaer

Technology Review: Thin Film's Time in the Sun - 0 views

  • The low manufacturing cost of photovoltaics that employ thin films of cadmium-telluride semiconductor have long been seen as having the potential for lifting solar power from its niche status as a very expensive power source,
Hans De Keulenaer

Fatally flawed attack on renewables by Jesse Ausubel | Gristmill: The environmental new... - 0 views

  • Climate analyst Jesse Ausubel is getting a lot of press with his new, controversial, deeply flawed study, "Renewable and nuclear heresies" (available here with subscription, but you can get the main points from this 2005 Canadian Nuclear Association talk and the accompanying PPT presentation).
Sergio Ferreira

Siemens VDO Automotive Group at After Gutenberg - 0 views

  • iemens VDO intends to offer its customers all electric drive system components from a single supplier. The company is this also at work on high performance energy accumulators and transmissions to support the hybrid drives. Siemens VDO is already working on a full-electric system that transfers the drive to the wheels without using a conventional transmission.
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    full electric system that tranfers the drive to the wheels without using a conventional transmission
Hans De Keulenaer

Planet2025 News Network - ntext - 0 views

  • This helps explain why the Prius so outsells the rival Honda Civic Hybrid. Both have similar base prices, about $22,000, and fuel economy (Prius, 60 miles per gallon city/51 highway; Civic, 49 mpg city/51 highway).
Hans De Keulenaer

Interconnection Guide - 0 views

  • This 44-page guide includes discussions of safety, power quality and codes, legal and procedural issues, net metering, and electrical inspectors.
Hans De Keulenaer

BOMA'S 7-Point Plan For Efficiency - 0 views

  • The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International is asking its members to accept this 7-point voluntary challenge to reduce environmental impact:
Hans De Keulenaer

US Auto Giants Profit from Fuel Economy - 0 views

  • Under the highest proposed fuel economy standard of 35 miles per gallon, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler stand to make $14.4 billion by 2017 -- over $6 billion more than the competition.
Hans De Keulenaer

Renewable Energy is not Necessarily Green - 0 views

  • Ausubel has analyzed the amount of energy that each so-called renewable source can produce in terms of Watts of power output per square meter of land disturbed.
Hans De Keulenaer

An Inconvenient Turbine: Conservation vs. Preservation - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • In neighborhoods across the country, there's a battle brewing: the environmentalists vs. the aesthetes.
Hans De Keulenaer

UD-led team sets solar cell record, joins DuPont on $100 million project - 0 views

  • a consortium led by the University of Delaware has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions.
davidchapman

The Ampere Strikes Back - 0 views

  • The report identifies the energy burden of this new set of products that, combined with the hoarding of old products and unwitting wastage, means that, by 2020, 'ICE age' technology will account for an extraordinary 45 per cent of electricity used in UK households. That's equivalent to 14 power stations just to power our TVs, home IT and other electronics by 2020.
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    Report says 1.4% of domestic consumption will be for stand-by by 2020. Since average is 700W (UK) that is 10W. We are already there!
Hans De Keulenaer

One Farm, One Big ($500 Million) Subsidy - 0 views

  • The grand champion in that period was Riceland Foods, Inc., of Arkansas, which collected half a billion dollars, mainly in rice subsidies.
Hans De Keulenaer

Toyota moves to corner the 'plug-in' market | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | ... - 0 views

  • Looks like we may have a race for the first practical, consumer plug-in between Toyota and G.M.
Hans De Keulenaer

Scientists invent device to stop Global Warming - 0 views

  • Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have created a device that uses sunlight to transform harmful CO2 gas into fuel that could replace all the gasoline used in transportation.
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