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Supermarkets get cold feet over fridge doors
What's the biggest and easiest thing that supermarkets could do to cut their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint? They all know the answer. Put doors on their fridges.
HP Sets New Energy Reduction Goals, Reports on Environmental Programs
HP today announced it has established new goals to reduce the energy use and carbon intensity of its operations and products as well as reported its progress on environmental initiatives across the company.
HP has already met its goal of reducing combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of HP operations and products to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2010.
HP’s new goal is to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all its products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.
Talkingenergy - e.on's YouTube Channel
"We need low carbon energy, it needs to be from reliable sources, and it needs to be affordable. E.ON believes that everyone should be involved and have the chance to ask questions, and be informed and consulted. That's what this Talking Energy channel is for. "
e.on has created a YouTube channel to discuss our energy future
A useful summary of Waxman-Markey
The Energy and Commerce Committee finally released a summary (here) of the American Clean Energy and Security Act as reported by the Committee on May 21 by a vote of 33 to 25. Here are the key provisions:
Energy Technologies Institute develops UK energy system blueprints for 2050
The Energy Technologies Institute has developed the Energy Systems Model to help identify those technologies capable of having the greatest impact for 2050.
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air, David MacKay
A free e-book (or available to buy on paper) about Sustainable Energy
How Much Energy Goes Into Making a Bottle of Water?
Researchers have calculated that the energy required to produce bottled water is up to 2,000 times more than the energy required to produce tap water.
Environmental Capital: Green Ink: Waiting for Obama - WSJ.com
February crude oil futures sunk below $33 Tuesday ahead of the contract’s expiration, and thanks to a strengthening dollar, Bloomberg reports. Economist-turned-prophet Nouriel Roubini calls oil between $30 and $40 for the rest of the year, also in Bloomberg.
The 10 big energy myths | Environment | The Guardian
The 10 big energy myths
There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to failure. What nonsense, writes Chris Goodall
The Energy Roadmap - Moving Toward Zero Energy Homes
The vision of ‘zero energy homes’ is to transform the residential built environment from a major consumer of energy, to a neutral, or net zero energy environment where the annual amount of energy produced and consumed is equal. More forward looking architects and energy system designers envision homes that are (annually) net producers of energy and able to push energy back into the grid, or fuel vehicles
PoCarles.com & US: Saint-Gobain and Second Life : Explaining glazing and playing for real trees
Saint-Gobain Glass, will run a set of conferences, to co-invent with some eco-friendly Second Life residents their next generation of products. The idea is to inspire more than ever both the R&D and Marketing department.
As well as the conferences, there is a game about the best practices for saving energy in your house, by using the right kind of high-technology glaze. Every resident can play (and win !) and then see a tree growing on Saint-Gobain island. The game will stay open until November 18th. Then, for each virtual tree in Second Life, we will plant a real tree in Lebanon by January 2009.
MSNBC Interactive
A dynamic Energy map of America showing infor on everything from the grid to biomass, geothermal, wind solar etc.
Understanding the science of solar-based energy: more researchers are better than one
With the assistance of a five-year $20 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Chemical Bonding Center (CBC) project, called "Powering the Planet," will increase the number of its collaborators to fulfill its goal of efficiently and economically converting solar energy and water into hydrogen and oxygen fuels.
The hydrogen and oxygen gases produced will be usable by a fuel cell, where they will react to reform water, generating electricity for powering an electric car or other devices. The gases may also be used as a source of energy after the sun goes down, and will generate a carbon-neutral or oil-free source of energy scalable to meet future global energy demands.
Designing a low-carbon future: building the new yacht. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone
the fundamental cheapness of energy meant that you could “make things manifest” with regard mostly to the cost of their materials and labor; this often went along with limited regard for energy use, and no regard for emissions and other “footprint” metrics. But that was before energy got expensive and stayed expensive, and before concerns about climate change and other environmental problems became widespread.
How Bubble Wrap Could Power the Future | LiveScience
The Beijing National Aquatics Center, or "Water Cube," is surrounded by a light-weight polymer foil that significantly reduces the energy that goes into construction.
The thin transparent material, called ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene), is segmented into 3,000 air-filled cushions that let in light but hold in heat.
Joseph Romm: The New York Times' Absurd Attack on Obama's Energy Plan
The lead editorial in Sunday's NYT, "Energy Fictions," is a misguided and misinformed smear of Obama's outstanding energy proposals. It harshly criticizes a few tiny pieces of Obama's energy plan that deal with short-term oil strategies, in particular, his willingness to compromise on offshore drilling...
The NYT would seem to be accusing Obama of being dishonest -- even though it is the McCain campaign whose insatiable dishonesty now extends to climate-destroying [and soul-destroying] disinformation
Green Group Declares the Future Leader in Clean Energy Is… China? | 80beats | Discover Magazine
China currently leads the world in its use of renewable energy, and is poised to also take first place on investment in clean energy technologies, according to a new report from an international non-profit, The Climate Group
Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Efficiency, Part 3: The only cheap power left
Energy efficiency is by far the biggest low-carbon resource available (see Part 1) — and it is as limitless as wind, PV, and solar baseload (see Part 2). It is also the cheapest power you can buy, by far.
Energy Demand - Just because we want it, doesn't mean we are going to get it!
In the past the market has been able to match demand by increasing production. The whole point about peak oil is that production cannot be further increased and therefore there may be a demand there, but it cannot necessarily be met.
Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com
A thoughtful look at the thinking going into where data centers are located currently
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