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ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) Consistent appraisals of homes and businesses outfitted with photovoltaic (PV) installations are a real challenge for the nation’s real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric™ and licensed by Sandia addresses that issue. Sandia scientists, in partnership with Jamie Johnson of Solar Power...
From Environmental Leader, January 27, 2012 Air compressors present a variety of opportunities for saving energy, from leak reduction and air intake improvements, to maintenance, monitoring, specification and design, according to guidance from the Carbon Trust. Of the total energy supplied to a compressor, as little as 8 to 10 percent is converted to usable...
Sustainable development is a vast and all-encompassing idea, and corporate sustainability is nearly so. No corporate sustainability leader can hope to make their company “sustainable” in the next year—or even the next five. So as we think ahead to our sustainability initiatives for 2012, how can we set meaningful goals that will lead to measurable...
By Environmental Leader Aluminum fabricator Alcoa has launched a new series of wide base that wheels are the lightest 14″ aluminum wheels on the market. The new 58 lbs wheels are engineered for high performance through Alcoa’s proprietary LvL ONE wheel manufacturing process of light weighting. By switching from single steel 22.5″ x 8.25″ wheels...
Environmental Daily Advisor Recycling = US Jobs Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Not only is it good business to be green, collecting recyclable materials is just the first step in a series of actions that generate a host of financial, environmental, and societal returns—including job creation. More than 56,000...
ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2011) — An energy quiz which tests people’s knowledge of the amount of energy used by various devices and processes, such as leaving the lights switched on the Christmas tree, has been developed by researchers at the University of Southampton. A team led by Dr Alex Rogers at the University’s ECS — Electronics...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released the latest version of its building energy modeling software EnergyPlus, which calculates the energy required to heat, cool, ventilate, and light a building. EnergyPlus is used by architects and engineers to design more efficient buildings, by researchers to investigate new building and system designs, and by policymakers...
It’s time to stop thinking of solar energy as a boutique source of power, says Joshua Pearce. Sure, solar only generates about one percent of the electricity in the US. But that will change in a few years, says Pearce, an associate professor of electrical engineering and materials science at Michigan Technological University. The ultimate in...
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