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Apr 20 | News
According
to a recent report from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.
commercial building owners could save an average of 38% on their heating
and cooling bills if they installed a handful of energy efficiency
controls that make their heating, ventilation and air conditioning
(HVAC) systems more energy efficient.
10/28/2011 | News
In the final part of the continuing Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study on scalable energy candidates, researchers from the MIT Energy Initiative discuss how a megawatt saved is better than a megawatt made, showing there are many ways to save energy without sacrifice.
8/1/2011 | News
With
the introduction of a new chlorine manufacturing process achieved by
combining oxygen depolarized cathode technology and new electrolysis
technology, Bayer MaterialScience is poised to save enough electricity
to power a small city.
7/26/2011 | News
The R&D Daily recently featured the new cool roof
being installed at the historic Stanford Linear Accelerator Center dome
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. But not all cool roofs yield
the same results in cooling, and Berkeley Lab has now conducted a
nationwide study to map the variations.
7/19/2011 | News
It
stands to reason that the photovoltaic panels on a rooftop are not only
converting sunlight to electricity, they are keeping the building
cooler by intercepting the solar rays. Until recent research, however,
just how much of a cooling benefit they can provide was not known.
7/12/2011 | News
While
Berkeley Lab's third-generation synchrotron is better known as one of the
world's brightest sources of ultraviolet and X-ray light, it's roof has
been, until now, a prime attractor for the sun’s energy. The 70-year-old
dome is being clad in a new cool roof, which will reflect sunlight back
into the atmosphere. The project is part of a mandate by Stephen Chu
for all Dept. of Energy facilities.
7/12/2011 | News
Power
usage effectiveness (PUE) is a key metric for determining how green a
data center is and it shows how effectively a data center uses power.
Measured as a ratio of the total amount of power used in the data center
divided by the amount of power to the computer equipment, the best
score a data center can get 1.0. The National Renewable Energy Lab
recently dropped its PUE from 3.3 to 1.15 in an effort to be a leader in
this area, and to save hundreds of thousands of dollars.
6/27/2011 | News
Since
1930, electric clocks have kept time based on the rate of the
electrical current that powers them. Power companies make this happen by
keeping current frequency as precise as possible, but a new experiment
that would allow more frequency variation in the interest of reliability
and money savings could throw off clocks in appliances by up to 20
minutes over time.
5/16/2011 | News
Tiny
energy converters being developed Oak Ridge National Lab are designed
for deployment in high-performance computer chips as way to use thermal
energy to generate power for much-needed cooling. The research team
reports that efficiency levels of their cantilevered invention are far
higher than existing harvesters.
5/16/2011 | News
The
International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) announced that
MATHESON
has joined ISMI's Environment, Safety and Health (ESH) Technology
Center. Engineers
from the two companies will collaborate to develop data-driven
environmental
and sustainable solutions in areas such as energy and resource
conservation,
chemical management, and industry response to climate change at the
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's Albany NanoTech Complex.
