Visualising energy use

Though by no means ubiquitous, household energy monitors have been around for some time ... in their home. Consumers begin by attaching to their electricity meter or fuse box a transmitter device, which ... displays not just energy usage, broadcast wirelessly by the consumer's energy meter, but also [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-07 10:09:29
Blog: Springwise: new busines...

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Efergy Energy Saving Meter

What a week that was - we rehearsed Mendelssohn's Elijah intensively then gave performances at Chester Cathedral on Thursday ... electricity use monitor. You clamp the sensor around the cable that feeds your electricity meter (no wiring [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-16 12:25:19
Blog: Bean Sprouts...

Daylight savings: study concludes it doesn't save on energy costs

Justin Lahart of the Wall Street Journal reports today on a study done by University of California - Santa Barbara ... affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy Corp ... an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced cost of lighting in afternoons [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-27 13:40:53
Blog: Fort Wayne Observed...

Daylight wastings

By Joseph Romm I have been asked this question about daylight saving time many times ... the time shift affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy ... households an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced cost of lighting [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-29 23:47:18
Blog: Gristmill: The environm...

It ain't what you don't know, its what you know that ain't so...

...one of my favorite Mark Twain aphorisms, that gets proved correct once again ... energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy Corp., covering nearly ... million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced cost of lighting in afternoons during [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-04 17:58:21
Blog: UNCoRRELATED...

Gigabyte Launching Dynamic Energy Saver Line of Motherboards

After all the fuss about Sony and Nintendo coming under fire from Greenpeace this summer, ... to save energy by using GIGABYTE’S Dynamic CPU Voltage Control settings combined with its Dynamic ... power they are actually saving. In Meter Mode, GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver shows how much power [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-01 23:31:42
Blog: Gaming Today - News for...

Spring Forward Wastes Energy

Don't forget to spring your clocks forward tonight. Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 a.m., March 9, 2008. ... :Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy Corp., covering nearly ... to daylight-saving time each year consumed more energy: • Residential electricity usage increased between [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-08 13:56:50
Blog: CALIFORNIA YANKEE...

BEEE - BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING QUES. PAPER

BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING QUESTION PAPER ELE-101 Basic Electrical Engineering (B.Tech., 1st and 2nd Semester, 2122) Maximum Marks : 60 1 (a) ... 20 ohmand of inductance 0.5 h are connected in star across a three phase supply source of 400 v, 50 ... of induction motor ? (h) What is the basic type of instrument used in energy meter [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-01 22:50:36
Blog: Technical - Placement -...

World's Largest Turbine: One Powers 5000 Homes

It was almost a year ago that we told you about Enercon's previous absolutely-massive, largest-in-the-world wind turbine, the E-112. Well now Enercon's outdone itself once again with a 126 meter diameter wind turbine called ... resistance of the tower and increase capture of wind energy and an extra 11 meters in height [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-03 22:55:09
Blog: EcoGeek: Technology for...

Universal Batteries Sold Through Vending Machines

Another one of the winning designs from the Greener Gadgets Design Competition that really made a lot of sense was the Green Cell ... Brill & Alex Williams of RBW, the idea took third place in the competition, right behind the DIY energy meter and the LED floor lamp energized by people. [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:28:02
Blog: PSFK - trends and ideas...

time marches on|Paradox of the Moment

In Zeno's dichotomy paradox, you run toward a wall. As you run, you halve the distance to the wall, then halve it again, and so on ... is also worthwhile for its final bit, a speculation about what life would really be like if electricity HAD become "too cheap to meter" as predicted by Atomic Energy Commission chief Lewis Strauss [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-02 01:15:42
Blog: kisrael.com|quotes and ...

ESOTERIC Loudspeakers receive CES 2008 Innovations award Honoree

CEA honors ESOTERIC for design and engineering innovation during CES2008 for its first two way loudspeaker systems MG-10 and MG-20 The woofers and ... crystal clear audio with a nominal impedance of 6 ohms. Magnesium’s high internal energy dissipation ... for 2.83 volt per meter Compact size to fit any room 17-5/16” x 8-1/2” x 10-11/16” MG-20 [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-03 08:43:12
Blog: Cybertheater.com...

Masdar Headquarters to be Located in World’s First ’Positive Energy’ Mixed-Use Building

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Date: 2008-02-24 01:19:53
Blog: Abu Dhabi Chronicle...

Calling for a Marshall Plan, not a Manhattan Project

Electricity too cheap to meter. For many renewable energy advocates, that is the holy grail… new technology which will not only solve the problem of carbon emissions, but be so transformative [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-06 20:58:29
Blog: Alternative Energy Stoc...

Daylight Savings Wastes Money

From the Wall Street Journal: ---------------- For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, ... -saving time across Indiana found: • Residential electricity usage increased between ... how the time shift affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-28 05:59:29
Blog: The Western Right...

DST Doesn’t Save Energy

Back when Congress was debating shifting the start and end of DST, ... way to see how the time shift affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings ... Indiana households an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-29 11:10:07
Blog: Mike The Actuary’s Musi...

Whoops! Maybe Daylight Savings Time Wastes Energy!

The conventional wisdom on daylight savings time has always been that it's a way to save energy by cutting down on the amount of lighting used at ... has its limitations. Researchers looked at the energy use patterns, taken straight from seven million monthly meter ... time after years of opting out. The study found that electricity use increased by [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-27 16:43:33
Blog: X Curmudgeon...

What’s a Watt?

meter-graphic BuildingGreen.com has a very good and useful piece about energy measurement from the December 2007 Environmental Building News ... . Overall energy consumption of buildings, including both electricity and other fuels, is typically [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-28 05:53:00
Blog: Green Building Elements...

Wii-proof Panasonic plasma TV gets our nod

With terrifying tales told over the net finally a messiah is coming to our rescue ... out of the hand! The last time my son let slip the Wiimote, he broke a China Vase (replica) instead ... of energy. FYI, 1 joule of energy is the amount needed to lift one small apple straight up one meter [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-15 10:25:00
Blog: Newlaunches.com...

Share Huge Files in Seconds with Green Optical Network Technology

IBM Researchers today unveiled a prototype technology that could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy efficient way to all kinds ... of power in supercomputers. For a typical 100 meter long link, the power consumed by the optical ... -- using the power of a single 100-watt lightbulb. This kind of bandwidth can drive energy [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:54:00
Blog: i-Stuff... Interesting ...

How to Check Electricity and Energy Use

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Do you know how much energy each of my 30″ monitors takes up? ... plug any device into Watt’s Up and the meter instantaneously displays the wattage being used, as well ... you can receive with this: Cost, in dollars and cents Frequency Volt-Amps Average monthly cost Power [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-24 04:58:14
Blog: Chris Pirillo...

The smart choice keeps getting smarter

electric meter ge 1 by Willy Ritch This week I was signing up a small business for 100% wind energy and as I was figuring out what the bottom line cost would be. The “standard offer” from the electric company (which includes electricity from natural gas and oil) goes for 8.7 cents/killowatt hour here in my state. To choose 100% wind [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-02 14:58:51
Blog: SmartPower Blog...

Bend a knee (again) to technology!

[ Biomechanical Energy Harvester: In the very near future, ... of a measly 80 milliwatts of electricity (like a square meter of the fabric would produce), this device [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-23 17:23:17
Blog: Science Buzz | Dig deep...

Americans Could Suffer Due To Loss Of Energy Backbone

America appears to have lost its will to provide abundant energy supplies to its citizens at reasonable prices ... prices stable (but definitely not the old 'too cheap to meter.') Yet appropriate subsidies to assure [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-29 14:55:16
Blog: African American Enviro...

Mysterious Intracellular Energy

Scientists from the University of Michigan, using novel nanoparticles, ... , and found electric fields as high as 15 million volts per meter, a surprisingly high potential drop ... , the voltage-sensitive dyes emit a mixture of red and green light; the exact frequency of light emitted [suite...]

Date: 2007-12-10 18:12:12
Blog: Medgadget.com -- Intern...

Kite-powered Cargo Ships

Incrementally, each small invention on energy conservation will probably accomplish more than hoping and waiting for one super break-through on ... of a 160-square-meter (1,722-square-foot) computer-controlled kite. The contraption's inventor [suite...]

Date: 2008-01-28 07:54:51
Blog: The Elephant Bar...

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Date: 2008-02-14 17:42:16
Blog: ejidgi ...

The Alternate Energy Scam.

Got into a bit of a discussion with Ferrand which was in danger of hi-jacking Christina Osborne's gracious blog 'Valentine for Engineers, ... on alternate power sources. Hydro-electric: produces about 0.012 watts per square meter of land ... just the current 19 plants would therefore require 19 x 2500 = 47, 500 square KM.  This is about 20 [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-15 13:50:31
Blog: My Telegraph...

Makhijani on DallasNews

Two days ago on DallasNews , Arjun Makhijani from the anti-nuclear group Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) gave his usual commentary that nuclear can't cut it but renewables can . Having failed miserably to deliver on the 1950s promise that nuclear electricity would be "too cheap to meter," the industry [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-28 19:10:00
Blog: Nuclear Energy Institu...

Waste not, want not

Forbes has an article on Indian company Sintex and its efforts to "solve India's energy and sanitation problems in one stroke" ... garbage into fuel that can be used for cooking or generating electricity, simultaneously addressing two ... . But instead of being vented into the air, they are piped into a storage canister. A one-cubic-meter [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-03 12:58:18
Blog: Peak Energy...

Electric Bill Update: Energy Vampires & Power Hijacks?

Seeking an answer to my high electric bill, I turned to fellow bloggers, who offered an assortment of suggestions and several plausible conspiracies ... audit that includes checking the meter. I have requested an onsite audit, a service available ... . Last summer, Bennett replaced the 14-year-old AC unit in her home with an upgraded system [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-11 14:45:54
Blog: The Frugal Duchess...

Sintex's biogas digester ingests crap, emits energy

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSintex Industries' aptly-dubbed biogas digester is most certainly not the first of its kind, ... electricity." Reportedly, a one-cubic-meter digester would sell for around $425, but could pay for itself [suite...]

Date: 2008-02-29 11:27:00
Blog: Engadget...

Is daylight-saving time a complete waste of energy?

By Paul Michael This weekend the clocks “spring forward.” I’m not a huge fan of DST ... of DST. Over the course of three years, a staggering seven million monthly meter readings were taken ... an additional $8.6 million in electricity. And in this day and age, can we afford to be throwing away [suite...]

Date: 2008-03-07 20:52:12
Blog: Wise Bread | Personal F...

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