All Posts Tagged With: "LED"
The Daily Five: Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Small Business Clean Energy Research; Volt vs. Prius; Norway tries osmotic power; Smart Grid; Boston Common goes LED
DOE Invests $18M into Small Business Clean Energy Research The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $18 million in funding from the stimulus act to small businesses for the development and deployment of clean energy technologies and [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Recyclable Paper Laptop; LED Solar Powered Shed Light; Compressed Air Cars Less Efficient; Southern Taiwanese island going gasoline-car free; Sun Catalytix low-cost solar
Recyclable Paper Laptop Not sure how well it would work, but this Recyclable Paper Laptop is something new. This one designed by a certain Je Sung Park eliminates the use of aluminum or [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 23 November, 2009
Racing Green Endurance; Super Efficient Cooling for Servers; Tesla Motors plans to go public; India to Spend $900 Million on Solar; Better light bulb
Racing Green Endurance How fast can a battery-powered car travel the entire 16,000+ mile length of the Pan-American highway? We don’t really know but it looks like we’re going to find [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 13 November, 2009
Starbucks Goes for LED; Fueling a fleet with Biodiesel; Road Trains; Energy Efficient Desalination; Mini E leases
Starbucks Goes for LED Lights Coffee behemoth Starbucks will replace conventional lights with light emitting diode (LED) bulbs in 8,000 stores by March of next year.
U.S. Foodservice-Atlanta Fuels Fleet with Biodiesel The distributor is using B5 fuel, a 5-percent [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Home Energy Retrofit Market; Safety Pedal is powered by your pedaling; Hidden Costs of Energy; Wind-Up Electric Shaver; From Less Waste to None
White House Strategy for Home Energy Retrofit Market The 14-page document, titled “Recovery Through Retrofit,” identifies three broad barriers to growth of the industry: limited information for consumers about the energy performance of [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 12 October, 2009
Solar Decathlon; 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport; BMW Electric Scooter; Massachusetts Mulls TV Efficiency Rules; LED Bulb Price Drop
Solar Decathlon seeks best sun-powered homes The Solar Decathlon, a biennial event, puts modular, solar-powered homes through 10 tests to determine which is the new sun king. Over the course of a week, teams of students from Canada, [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 29 September, 2009
Ice Arena Lowers Energy Consumption 28%; Tesla Model S Can Swap Batteries; 220mph trains in America; Debating Hybrids’ Fast-Lane Privileges; LED Water Consumption Meter
Ice Arena Lowers Energy Consumption 28% With LEDs By switching to high bay LED lighting, the Bowden Ice Arena in Alberta was able to decrease the amount of energy used on lighting [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 04 September, 2009
Holiday Inn LED Lights; France extends “cash for clunkers”; New electric scooter; No Impact Man hits the bookstores; MINI E leases in UK
Holiday Inn LED Lights Yields $4.4M In Savings As part of a makeover, Holiday Inn has redesigned their iconic brand logo and required a new exterior signage that will now incorporate energy-efficient, long-life [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009
First Zero Energy home; Solar-powered ferries; Making Power With Gravity; Mobile Electric Car Charger; Save $127K Annually With LEDs
San Francisco to have first Zero Energy home. With an eight kilowatt solar array, floor plates acting as passive solar collectors, a 1,500 gray water reclamation system that takes water from sinks, showers, and tubs, to irrigate [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 9 June, 2009
Sustainable homestead; Energy Department fails own energy audit; Toyota to sell electric charge stations; Hack a hand-crank flashlight; Cooler LED bulbs
The Field Lab – Extremely Sustainable Homestead. The Field Lab, also known as the Southwest Texas Alternative Energy And Sustainable Living Field Laboratory, is a 40-acre desert homestead where John Wells decided to make his [...]
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