Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Google has been hatching a new project that connects household accessories such as lightbulbs to the Android platform, which makes it easier for homeowners to keep tabs on their energy consumption and control their home from afar. Google has picked Arduino for its Open Accessories "kit", which will help developers start building new hardware accessories that can work on ...
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Photo: Michael Graham Richard A Bulb from the Future! It Looks Like it Belongs on a Spaceship The Philips AmbientLED 12.5-watt A19 LED lightbulb (quite a name!) is probably the favorite LED bulb that I've tried so far. It beats the competition when it comes to light output (800 lumens vs. 450-590 lumens for the other LEDs that I've ...
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AT&T announced today that because of 4,200 energy efficiency projects installed at company facilities during 2010, it saved $44 million in annual energy costs. The projects included things like installing desktop power management software on 169,000 computers, a measure that generated $614,000 in savings alone, and installing LED light bulbs at over 1,100 cell sites. ... Read the full ...
Read more...published February 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Image Credit: Consumerist It was the question on everybody's mind when George Bush banned the incandescent light bulb with the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 : Whither the Easy-Bake Oven? This almond-coloured classic was every girl's favourite toy, and at its heart was a 100 watt incandescent bulb, AKA the heatball , th... Read the full story ...
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Earth2Tech's John St. John has a great summary of the important points of the latest report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the smart meter market. Titled Grid Regulator: The Internet & Privacy Concerns Will Shape Grid , the article outlines the factors that will guide the actions of major players in the smart grid. If you want ...
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Photo: Western Digital How Energy Efficient Are They Really? The cool people at Ars Technica have a piece about 'green' hard drive. They look at the energy usage of regular models vs 'green' models to see how much energy would be saved by going that route.... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Do 'Green' Hard Drives ...
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Photo Credit: Average Jane , Flickr. Granola can be a good source of fiber, and granola can be used as another word for Treehugger. Then there's grano.la. Notice the dot. It's a software program developed by a Virginia Tech prof with a TV star name and a graduate student with a fantastic mustache. The program can reportedly increase the ...
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Images credit The Haringey PassivTerrace It didn't look like much last summer, an empty, partially burned out row house in London. As part of a Retrofit for the Future programme, Anne Thorne Architects it trying to take the old thing and bring it up to Passivhaus standards, which demand a ton of insulation, really careful installation so that there ...
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HSBC Headquarters, Prospect Heights, Ill, outside of Chicago, certified LEED Gold. A few years back, Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen started using the term "Transportation Energy Efficiency", .He defined it as "the amount of energy associated with getting people to and from that building, whether they are commuters, shoppers, vendors, or homeowners." But Alex was really a cry in the ...
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Image credit: Andy Butkaj , used under Creative Commons license. I got my electricity bill yesterday, and it was the highest it has ever been. I was delighted. You see we recently switched our ailing 14-year-old propane-fueled heating unit for the most energy efficient air-to-air heat pump we could get our hands on. While many UK heat pumps are ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
