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  Calculating Your Energy Draw and What To Do When You Find Out What a Home Energy Hog You've Been
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Electricity”

• New SAIC software predicts grid failures weeks, months in advance

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 144
  Engineering firm Scientific Applications International (SAIC), a company that has been playing at the edges of the emerging Smart Grid space, is putting the finishing touches on software that could predict and pinpoint the causes of electricity outages up to months in advance. Dubbed the Distribution Monitoring ...
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• How Much Power Does It Take To Simulate The Human Brain? [Robots]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
      Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, believes that it would require 10 megawatts to power a processor as smart as the human brain. His new “Neurogrid” supercomputer might be able to do it on only 20 watts. More here: How Much Power Does It Take To Simulate The Human Brain? ...
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• Ontario Government Phasing Out Coal Usage

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 428
  In a radical move in Canada, the government of Ontario has declared the closure of four coal fired generating power stations. The move is being seen as an indication of the Ontario government to move towards utilizing more of renewable energy and also to further boost the concept of energy conservation. Read more ...
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• Solar Night Industries Ground Mount Solar Thermal Project: January 2008

  
  Monitor Electricity — Authority: 142
  Transparent Solar Cells Made For Windows If solar cells were transparent, they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus in creating the basis for transparent solar cells. Solar Night Industries Ground ...
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• NRG goes bigger on wind

  
  NewsWatch: Energy — Authority: 478
  NRG Energy, the second largest power producer in Texas, is paying an undisclosed sum for offshore wind energy producer BlueWater. NRG has been active in wind power for a while, and already has a stand-alone wind business, Padoma. Heres NRGs...
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• PepsiCo to Reduce Water, Energy Use 20% by 2015

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  PepsiCo has saved more than 750,000 megawatt hours of energy and more than 7.5 billion liters of water as a result of gains in energy and water efficiency compared to the 2006 baseline, according to the company’s 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report (PDF).The food and beverage company is committed to cutting ...
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• Pilot Utility Pricing To Charge More During Peak Hours

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  Wind energy may benefit from a pilot program that would charge utility customers more for using electricity during the peak hours of 2-8 p.m.Proposed by Xcel Energy to be used in Boulder, Colo., the program – if adopted on a wider scale – would reduce the need for so-called “peaking” power stations, reports ...
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• First All-Hybrid FedEx Facility Established

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  The Bronx, New York, operation of FedEx will become the company’s first to exclusively use hybrid delivery vans. The addition of 51 new delivery vehicles brings the facility’s total to about 100 hybrid trucks.After the new vehicles from Azure Dynamics Corp. are added, FedEx’s hybrid fleet will total 325 ...
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• Nokia issues recall for 14 million chargers

  
  Boy Genius Report — Authority: 806
  Today Nokia announced a world-wide recall of three chargers made by BYD, a third party supplier. The models in question are AC-3E and AC-3U manufactured between June 15th and August 9th, 2009 and AC-4U made between April 13th to October 25th, 2009. The reason for the recall is a defect which could cause the “plastic ...
  8 hours ago

• New smart electricity meters could spy on you

  
  Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site — Authority: 718
  Privacy experts have warned that a new breed of smart electricity meters could reveal too much about our daily lives to third parties. Read on to discover why you might need to keep more of an eye on your meter one day… New, smarter electricity meters are being installed worldwide to reduce energy use but privacy ...
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• Spend 30 years rubbishing Nuclear Power, then suddenly turn round

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 437
  …and say to all the Orcs, GreeNazis, neopastoralists, ageing hippies and “Choice-Editors”  whom you have deliberately created, that “it is safe”. David Davis Then see if you are believed. Most of us libertarians have always said it is, because it, well, er, is. Try comparing the death-toll of coal ...
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• The first hint of smart meter benefits?

  
  NewsWatch: Energy — Authority: 478
  Say hello to my little friend. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (with smart meter in foreground) announces CenterPoint Energys $200 million federal stimulus grant to accelerate smart meter projects in late October. (Johnny Hanson/Chronicle) Reliant Energy and TXU...
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• Solar Night Presenting Solar Synapse Pre-Wire Kit for New Construction at Timbers at Creekside Home-Tuesday, August 7th

  
  Monitor Electricity — Authority: 142
  A Little Green Math Challenge For You–(because my calculator watch just broke) OK–as a new signer upper for Ameren’s Pure Power Plan I am curious about 1 thing: How can I present this to my wife as an economical decision? Two things are apparent from that question: 1. I signed up without telling my wife–not ...
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• Now it’s goodbye Bobby, hello Jacob. Eskom runs a tight circus

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 429
  I USED to think that Eskom was being run by Martians determined to switch off earth’s electricity supply so they could quietly invade under the cover of involuntary darkness.Now I have proof.This just in: CEO Jacob Maroga, who had resigned according to an announcement by Bobby Godsell, has not resigned. He is back ...
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• Ask Pablo: Refrigerator Water Dispenser or Refrigerated Bottles?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 723
  Image Source: Alex Muse Dear Pablo: We drink a great deal of water all day long and wondered which uses more energy: opening the refrigerator door to get a bottle of cold water or using the water dispenser on the exterior of the unit. Also, does it take more energy to get ice from the mechanical dispenser (which ...
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• Power 4 Home - Solar Panels For Home Electricity

  
  AQUACHANNEL — Authority: 140
  Using solar power is one way of saving energy at home. Exploring this type of energy saving device has already been known to homes for some time now. It is considered as one of the essential forms of renewable power. Installing solar panels for home electricity is quite simple and needs minor maintenance and would ...
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• Jumping in Pools: Hurricane Ida Projected Path

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 468
  Ida projected path of Hurricane, Hurricane Path Ida: Ida Projected Path Hurricane 2009 – Hurricane-path and other information on natural disasters can be found Ida here.Hurricane must boost its anger on the island of Nicaragua, which has already forced 2,000 people to evacuate and left many more without ...
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• Magnets 4 Energy – Magnetic Perpetual Motion Machine

  
  blabstr.com — Authority: 162
  Taken literally, the term perpetual motion refers to movement that goes on forever. However, the term more commonly refers to any device or system that perpetually or indefinitely produces more energy than it actually consumes, thus, resulting to a net output of energy for an indefinite period of time.
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• Ovo confuses consumers with new tariff rates

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 437
  Which? Switch had alerted Consumer Focus, a consumer complaint agency, on the recent move by energy supplier Ovo to change both of its tariffs, leading to new energy consumers paying rates different from existing ones. Ovo had now updated its energy tariffs with new prices, while still not changing the names of each ...
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• The Strongest Magnet Attempt

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee Florida has been awarded nearly $3 million to build a novel kind of superconducting magnet that’s expected to break records for magnetic field strength, make possible new types of science and save vast amounts of energy and money.  Of interest is the ...
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