Alex Britez's List: G4Li

• When there’s no sun, and no wind? The $3 million billboard goes dark: there is no backup generator.
• weighs in at 35,000 pounds
• 55 feet off the ground at 3 Times Square, wrapping around the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street
• 16 wind turbines and 64 solar panels
• sign, which is 126 feet wide and 47 feet high,
• y generating its own electricity — enough to light six homes for a year — the sign could save as much as $12,000 to $15,000 per month, according to Ricoh, which estimated that the sign would prevent 18 tons of carbon from being spewed into the air yearly
• not studded with light-emitting diodes
• eature custom-printed opaque vinyl sheeting bearing the red-and-white Ricoh logo.
• lighted by 16 300-watt floodlights
• The point is that there are ways of being environmentally friendly to the planet, even on a billboard.”
• cylindrical Ricoh drum turbines have no sharp blades. They will provide 90 percent of the sign’s power; the rest will come from the solar panels on the sign, feeding electricity to eight collection batteries up in the sign. The drums are so perfectly balanced, Ricoh says, that their rotors could be turned by the wind from a single household electric fan.
• likely generate enough power to keep the sign lighted even after four days without wind or sun
• When operating at their average speed of 10 miles an hour, they put out 22 kilowatts.
• Times Square has 10-mile-an-hour winds, on average, ranging from no wind to gusts of 85 m.p.h.
• provide usable power from winds as weak as 5 m.p.h. and rotate safely in winds up to 100 m.p.h., she said, because the aluminum blades are aerodynamically designed to regulate themselves, slowing automatically in high winds.

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• LED display in Times Square
• 720p (1280x720)
• 19 x 34-feet, capable of displaying 60fps with a mere 8mm pixel pitch ensuring things look good even close up
• 12,500 lb screen

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• perating at an average speed of 10 miles an hour, the turbines will generate 22 kW

• Coca-Cola was the first company to select clean, renewable wind power to light up their billboard located at 47th and Broadway. After Coca-Cola made their commitment, all of the neighboring billboards on three buildings around Times Square joined the movement through an electric supply agreement with ConEdison Solutions and the building management company.
• Collectively, the group's volunteer move will prevent the release of 1,866 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year
• 100 percent wind powe
• emoving 75 passenger automobiles from the road for one year or converting 38 households to wind power for one year.
• equivalent to reducing 376 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually or planting 471.5 acres of trees.  
  

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• "Clean Air Taxis Act"
• New York City was ranked third in the nations most air pollutant cities in 2004.
• Gas fueled taxis have been in existence in New York City since 1907
• The amount of money taxi services now save on fueling up at the gas station is making everyone smile.

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• Michael Bloomberg says the city's yellow taxis will be green within five years.
• The hybrids will run on a combination of gas and electricity.
• The standard cab is now a Ford Crown Victoria, which gets 14 miles per gallon. The Ford Escape, which has been part of an 18-month test, gets 36 miles per gallon.
• n fuel efficiency will save taxi operators more than ten-thousand dollars a year

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• The hybrid-cab requirement was the centerpiece of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 package of environmental initiatives
• The standard yellow cab gets about 14 miles per gallon. Considering there are about 13,000 cabs in NYC and only about one-thousand of them are hybrids, this could’ve had a large positive effect on the city’s pollution.

• Coca-Cola has become the first company to select clean, renewable wind power to light up their billboard located at 47th and Broadwa
• Collectively, the group’s volunteer move will prevent the release of 1,866 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.
• 100 percent wind power
• removing 75 passenger automobiles from the road for one year or converting 38 households to wind power for one year.
• 376 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually or planting 471.5 acres of trees.

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• he company agreed to pay a 10 percent premium on its bill to select clean, renewable wind power to light up the billboard located at 47th and Broadway
• his green leap will lead to a reduction of about 2,056 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

• fter Coca-Cola made their commitment, all of the neighboring billboards on three buildings around Times Square joined the movement through an electric supply agreement with ConEdison Solutions and the building management company.
• mes Square, where we've been one of the longest continuous billboard advertisers, starting in 1932,

• he increase in public space created by reducing the number of traffic lanes on Broadway and 7th Avenue promotes pedestrian use of the space while also discouraging automobile use.  
• The steps themselves will be heated and cooled with a geo-thermal system that circulates air from 450 ft. below the streets surface to efficiently keep the steps at a constant temperature of 55 degrees thereby heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.  In addition, LED bulbs are used to illuminate the translucent red glass thereby dramatically reducing the energy consumption associated with the steps lighting.
• Four Times Square commonly known as the Conde Nast building was the first green skyscraper developed in NYC
• perating expenses at Four Times Square are roughly 10-15% lower than those of a comparable office built using conventional building methods and materials. 
• One Bryant Park otherwise known as the Bank of America Tower, will be the first LEED Platinum high rise office building.
• ConEdison Solutions
• he building sets a number of precedents with its ceramic sunscreen shading system and its comprehensive underfloor air distribution (UFAD) system.

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