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 ”

• The Pulse: City Tests LED Lamps in Wicker Park Area

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  City Hall is considering installing white lights to replace the yellowish-orange lamps along Chicago’s streets and alleys.
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• Method makes refineries more efficient

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Refineries could trim millions of dollars in energy costs annually by using a new method developed at Purdue University to rearrange the distillation sequence needed to separate crude petroleum into products. The researchers have demonstrated their method on petroleum plants that separate crude, ...
  23 hours ago

• An Experimental Underground Data Center: Iron Mountain’s Room 48

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 120
  Iron Mountain has converted an old mine in Pennsylvania to a computing facility, part of which includes an experimental energy-efficient data center that uses geothermal conditions to improve cooling. ComputerWorld wrote an article about their tour of the facility, including Room 48 where the experimental data ...
  1 day ago

• Samsung UN55B6000 55-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LED HDTV

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 176
  Ultra-slim 55-inch LED HDTV with full HD 1080p resolution for the sharpest picture possible LED technology enables a true-to-life range of picture brightness; uses 40 percent less energy than conventional LCD TVs InfoLink RSS feeds of news, weather and sports from your broadband connection Inputs: 4 HDMI, 1 ...
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• 5 Points To Consider When Purchasing DIY Solar Power Kits

  
  The Solar Cost Guide — Authority: 134
  With energy bills skyrocketing, both businesses and homeowners are seeing solar power as a workable alternative. Perhaps the simplest way to implement this type of renewable energy to your system is to purchase a DIY solar power kit. Before you purchase such a kit, you should familiariaze yourself with five important ...
  2 days ago

• A Data Center in a Silo

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 120
  The CLUMEQ project is designing a supercomputer, and has several sites already built. One of these, a site in Quebec, was built in an old silo that used to contain a van de Graaf generator. An article in the McGill Reporter from several years ago described the supercomputer installation at Montreal. The new ...
  2 days ago

• Energy Efficiency and Real Estate: Opportunities for Investors

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 475
  This report, from the investor activist group Ceres, explores how the current economic and policy climate in the United States is creating new momentum for energy-efficient buildings.
  2 days ago

• Energy Efficiency and Real Estate: Opportunities for Investors

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 581
  This report, from the investor activist group Ceres, explores how the current economic and policy climate in the United States is creating new momentum for energy-efficient buildings.
  2 days ago

• Energy Efficiency in Real Estate Portfolios : Opportunities for Investors

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 141
  Mercer for Ceres http://www.ceres.org/realestatereport [ GreenBiz.com ]  Proven, existing efficiency technologies — in everything from lighting to climate control and more — can unlock the untapped reserves of efficiency gains buried in many real estate holdings, according to a new report. Those gains would ...
  3 days ago

• If You Dont Live Near a Renewable Energy Plant, Just Bring One to You

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 625
  Coop-style renewable energy projects are taking hold around the country: a community-owned wind farm on an island off Maine, and Palm Springs residents can now boast the lowest-priced solar panels ever available to individuals.
  3 days ago

• California Winery to Cut Water Use by 70%

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 605
  Image credit: EatLiveRun Turning water into wine may be impossible for us mere mortals, but making wine with less water is definitely something worth exploring. Just like any industrial process, wine making is incredibly water intensive—so the fact that Kendall-Jackson winery is implementing cutting-edge water ...
  3 days ago

• How can I make my heating system more efficient? Ask Leo

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  From bleeding radiators to maintaining the boiler, there are a number of ways to reduce fuel bills over winter How can I make my heating system more efficient? Jon Trew, by email Wow. A tremendous response to this question so far. Thanks to everyone for contributing to such a constructive discussion. Im pleased ...
  3 days ago

• Report Shows New Buildings in London Pumping Out a Third Less Carbon

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  New development projects coming to the London Mayor’s office for approval are cutting their carbon emissions by around a third, whilst tougher targets proposed in the Mayor’s draft London plan can raise this even further, a London South Bank University report has found. The independent report, commissioned by the ...
  3 days ago

• EPA’s Gift to Maritime Industry: Stringent Emission Regs

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 644
  Just in time for holiday gift-giving season the Environmental Protection Agency wrapped-up final regulations that slap stringent emission control standards on ocean vessels and marine diesel engines.And this is one gift the maritime industry can’t return or exchange.The EPA this week finalized a rule it proposed in ...
  3 days ago

• Hotel Nikko San Francisco Earns EPA’s ENERGY STAR Award

  
  EPR Network Blog — Authority: 147
  
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• Building Value: How Energy Efficiency Measures Enhance Real Estate Portfolios

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 475
  Proven, existing efficiency technologies -- in everything from lighting to climate control and more -- can unlock the untapped reserves of efficiency gains buried in many real estate holdings, according to a new report.
  3 days ago

• Building Value: How Energy Efficiency Measures Enhance Real Estate Portfolios

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 581
  Proven, existing efficiency technologies -- in everything from lighting to climate control and more -- can unlock the untapped reserves of efficiency gains buried in many real estate holdings, according to a new report.
  3 days ago

• Bluewater Bio heads into 2010 with verification from pilot tests

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 588
  As the wastewater treatment company waits for its first commercial order from a deal in S. Africa, its technology is picking up steam in the UK and Spain.
  3 days ago

• Five Things To Consider Before Buying DIY Solar Power Kits

  
  The Solar Cost Guide — Authority: 134
  In an effort to reduce energy bills, both homeowners and businesses are looking to solar power as a viable alternative. Purchasing a DIY solar power kit is perhaps the fastest way to implement this kind of renewable energy to your system. That said, its important that you be familiar with five important aspects before ...
  3 days ago

• 150 Hz operating frequency for LED fixtures by DOE challenged

  
  Solutions for LED Lights — Authority: 103
  CHALLENGE DOE ENERGY STAR REQUIREMENTS FOR INTEGRAL LED LAMPS Once Innovations, a Minnesota based research, development and manufacturing company with a firm focus on LED technologies announced today its intent to formally challenge newly finalized ENERGY STAR Eligibility Criteria for Integral LED Lamps. "We feel ...
  3 days ago

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