Energy Efficiency

As the world becomes more concerned about reducing carbon emissions, burning fossil fuels, and reducing fuel consumption, the efficiency of the residential energy system becomes critical.

For the home owner energy efficiency can be increased by replacing aging appliances with energy star rated appliances, adding thresholds to doorways and sealing other areas of the home that may allow air flow in from the outside.

Replacement windows with double or triple pane glass, ultra violet filtration and working seals will add significantly to the war on energy efficiency. Using blinds or motorized shades on your windows can keep your home energy efficient.

Blogs on energy efficiency may include information on government rebates for increasing home energy efficiency and ways to improve the overall use of fuel consumed. Many cover step by step home construction projects for helping homeowners to save money and the environment.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Energy Efficiency”

• Air Products inks supply deal with ExxonMobil in Rotterdam

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 564
  New hydrogen plant is expected to offer energy efficiencies and emissions reductions, becoming operational in the second half of 2011.
  7 hours ago

• U.S. Army tests Quantums new hybrid-diesel vehicles in special ops

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 564
  Drivetrain technology in silent vehicle could reduce fuel consumption by 25 percent during quick-paced recon and surveillance missions.
  8 hours ago

• Ideas For Buying Classy Central Air Conditioning

  
  Sparkliesunshine.net — Authority: 163
  On a hot summer day the cool air from an air conditioner can give almost instant relief. Purchasing an air conditioner presupposes a study of so many factors. The two types of air conditioning units on the market are central and room. To cool your entire home, a central air conditioner uses a main unit placed ...
  8 hours ago

• Nuclear power: A blow to the cheap coal option | Bryony Worthington

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Todays announcements are meant to bring clarity to an otherwise murky situation. The government is trying to pave the way for an energy system in which electricity generation is more or less fully decarbonised by 2050. The three technologies that can help achieve this are renewables, nuclear and carbon capture and ...
  10 hours ago

• 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 ...
  14 hours ago

• Cut carbon for just $2

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Smh.com.au | If laptop users were willing to pay an extra $2 to upgrade their power-supply units, the world could save more than 200 million tonnes of carbon a year, according to a leading component supplier in Taiwan. Delta Electronics, which makes more than half of the boxes at the end of the ...
  17 hours ago

• UK-wide success for Easdale Island in Green Streets £2m shareout

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  The community team from Easdale Island has seen off almost 100 other applicants from across the UK to make it to the final shortlist in the Scottish Gas Green Streets programme. The 14 shortlisted projects will each receive a share of a £2 million funding pot.The Easdale Island project involves the installation of a ...
  18 hours ago

• 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 ...
  18 hours ago

• 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 ...
  18 hours ago

• Clean Tech Event: Smart Grid Bilateral Trade and Investment Opportunities

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  The Monterey Bay International Trade Association, TradePort and California’s Global Trade Community invite you to the Global Smart Energy- Bilateral Trade and Investment Opportunities conference on November 13, 2009. Featuring several clean tech experts hailing from Chevron Energy Service (CES), the U.S. ...
  18 hours ago

• DHS Funds Chemical Sensors for Cell Phones, MaxLinear Files for IPO, EcoDog Wins GadgetFest, & More San Diego BizTech News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Roundup , Sensors , cleantech Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It was a busy week for local technology news. —Two teams from San Diego and a third from Northern California demonstrated their development of advanced chemical sensor prototypes that are tiny enough to be found inside ordinary cell phones . The ...
  19 hours ago

• 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.
  21 hours ago

• ‘Greening’ the Factory Floor

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  At the higher levels in the manufacturing enterprise the facilities (office building and plant HVAC, administrative, employee services like cafeterias, etc., packaging and shipping) dominate.As we move down through the production systems and their associated consumables (with their energy, water, materials, compressed ...
  21 hours ago

• 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 ...
  22 hours ago

• Climate Change Will Harm U.S. Economy, Economists Say

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  Almost all 144 top economists surveyed for a New York University School of Law report agree that climate change threatens the United States economy and that carbon regulation — whether it’s a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system — will drive energy efficiency and innovation, reports the New York Times’ Green ...
  23 hours ago

• Tips for weathering winter storms

  
  Queen Anne View — Authority: 529
  One of our sister sites, Phinneywood , recently posted a story with tips on how to weather the coming stormy season. Considering the rainy, windy weather we’ve been having lately, I thought it might be pertinent to share some of those winter weather pointers. Here are some tips from local utilities: Assemble an ...
  23 hours ago

• Energy Recovery launches new desal tech at IDA World Congress

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 564
  Quadribaric technology, embedded into PX-300 energyrecovery devices, is expected to offer lower operating pressures and higher efficiencies for large desal plants.
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• How ‘Smart’ Is the Smart Grid? Maybe Not So Much

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 428
  In July,  Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, testified on cybersecurity and the U.S. power gird before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security.  His comments, which follow in italics, cut against the grain of ...
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• India to Launch Trading of Energy Efficient Certificates for Energy Intensive Industries

  
  Red, Green, and Blue — Authority: 415
  Trading could start as early as April 2010. Would save 10,000 MW per year. Aimed at reducing energy use by 7 to 8 percent. In a bid to clarify its official stance and pressurize the developed countries ahead of the next month’s Copenhagen climate talks the Indian Prime Minister announced ambitious ...
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• Is Asia Taking Corporate Social Responsibility Seriously?

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By Chris Tobias Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a critical issue across Asia. From local companies to multi-national conglomerates, how successfully business interacts with its environs and community is of supreme importance. The recent CSR-Asia Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia gave some ...
  2 days ago

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