Everyone knows that hydroelectricity can only be obtained via the use of hard-to-build and expensive water dams, which create a lot of nuisance around them, in that people need to be evacuated from their basins, and the threat of them breaking always hangs over the heads of those living downstream. However, now, near... |
23 December 2008
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Although independent Scottish scientific reports acknowledge the fact that the nation could indeed rely on renewables to offer it 20 percent of its electricity by 2020, they also stress the fact that nuclear power is probably the best option in the long run. New surveys draw attention to the fact that a five-fold inc... |
9 December 2008
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Vampire power has become a very serious problem over the past few years, especially for those who are environment-friendly and want to minimize their carbon footprint on Mother Nature. The term refers to the energy that some electrical appliances draw from sockets, even when turned off or in stand-by mode. The Good f... |
4 December 2008
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The British government will distribute approximately 3,000 smart fridges in 2009, in an attempt to test how grid-sensitive appliances will work when connected to the power grid. These refrigerators will have the capacity to recognize peak periods in electricity usage and avoid drawing power at that time, so as to min... |
3 December 2008
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In an attempt to significantly increase the numbers of electric cars currently on the road in the San Francisco area, local authorities announced on Thursday that new car-recharging stations will dot Bay View. The project is currently valued at about one billion dollars, which is a fairly low sum to pay for such an e... |
21 November 2008
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Yesterday (Thursday, November 13), Google joined the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG), an association that promotes the monitoring of electricity consumption in both the power grid and end users' homes. This step is the latest in a series of environment-friendly actions that Google.org engaged in ... |
14 November 2008
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GE Consumer & Industrial announced recently that it would create a new line of "smart" refrigerators that would be able to avoid running energy-consuming tasks, such as defrost cycles, during power grid peak times. Company officials say that this ability could help ease the burden that is currently being placed on th... |
30 October 2008
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