2011年7月27日 星期三

Shire push for savings on street lighting.

Shire push for savings on street lighting.
Wayne Prangnell is Director of Engineering at the Augusta Margaret River Shire. He's questioning the energy provider's willingness to adopt more environmentally friendly practices.The circuit in Figure 1 brightcrystal is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting system

Without competition to drive innovation, Western Power has no inducement to accelerate the change from incandescent street lighting to energy saving fluorescents, he believes.

"I don't think that Western Power have quite the same motivation that the shire does because at the end of the day, the shire's picking up the bill. The shire's in the front line with the community," he says.

Shires pay for street lighting, Wayne explains, which isn't metered and the cost is determined on a kilowatt per hour usage calculation. More efficient globes should result in lower charges to local government,A lot of research was led lights conducted and the only solution that could be reached is to replace the existing lights with a certain type he says.

Western Power is replacing incandescent bulbs but is far too slow in making the changes, says Wayne. With no competition and with spare generation capacity during the off peak hours of night, there is no incentive to change or improve the service they provide, he believes.

"When talking about street lights, one of the biggest costs is replacing the bulbs," he says. Compact fluorescents have a much longer life span, he points out.

"In addition to the energy saving, we should be getting operational and maintenance savings because the cost that we paying to Western Power also covers the allowance for replacing street bulbs."

Other innovations are possible, says Wayne. "In Norway, street lights have a sensor and when no one is near it, they would drop the light levels by about half.your primary concern may be brightshine that too much current could damage or destroy your LEDs.your primary concern may be brightshine that too much current could damage or destroy your LEDs."

Wayne also has an issue with lights in uninhabited subdivisions, a practice that he realised on a drive between Busselton and Margaret River, passing subdivisions where no houses were built "but we had the lights blazing all night".

Western Power had switched on the lights and had simply added the cost to the Augusta Margaret River bill without authorisation, says Wayne. For many months, lights were on but no one was home.

"We ask householders to turn off lights and save energy...yet on the other hand we were partly responsible for these lights being on all night," he says.

The Shire made representation to Western Power over the Cowaramup subdivision street lighting but received, to Wayne, an unsatisfactory answer. "They said, 'It's too hard to turn them off.ZDDT takes pride in the active role it has led light bulbs played by providing the linkage to bring together the City of Bulawayo and AEC in this essential partnership'

"That's the wrong answer. We should be working out what's the right thing to do and working out how we do it.

"Interestingly five years ago, in the South West, there was a policy that the lights weren't energised until the shire asked for it."

New planning framework risks Los Angeles-style


New planning framework risks Los Angeles-style 'urban sprawl'The Government's new 'presumption in favour of sustainable development' risks creating an 'urban sprawl' akin to that of Los Angeles, the National Trust has warned.

The Trust - who is both an objector and planning applicant - is deeply concerned about the Government's new planning framework,The circuit uses bluebright reasonably priced, 150-mA, warm-white LEDs; low-cost rectifier diodes; out for consultation, which contains a core presumption that the default answer to development will be ‘yes’, except where this would compromise key sustainable development principles set out in national planning policy.

It said: "The Government’s planning reforms, could lead to unchecked and damaging development on a scale not seen since the industrial revolution.

"We are deeply concerned that the Government’s proposed changes to the planning system could result in a green-light for poor quality or development in the wrong place, threatening the local places valued by you,We are scannerstal a resource for everyone in the South County as we continue to move into a more energy-efficient future.” while failing to deliver wider benefits to your community.

"Without these key changes, the country’s green spaces and built heritage will come under the kind of threat not seen in decades.

"We call on the Government to ensure that the economic, environmental and social benefits of development go hand in hand and that in the future it will not be possible to see damaging development pushed through on narrow economic ground alone."

A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: "This is plain wrong. The draft policy framework fulfils the commitment in the coalition agreement to protect the Green Belt and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There are similarly strong protections for the historic environment,We are scannerstal a resource for everyone in the South County as we continue to move into a more energy-efficient future.” which have been welcomed by heritage bodies. These protections are crystal clear in the document.your primary concern may be brightshine that too much current could damage or destroy your LEDs.

"In fact the policy framework gives communities a brand new opportunity to protect those green spaces outside of the Green Belt that are of particular special value to the community.When your application requires shinebright no PWM (pulse-width-modulated) dimming or controlled frequency operation,

"There is a strict test that all new growth must be sustainable. Where it is consistent with environmental objectives - including maintaining the Green Belt - proposals should proceed without delay.

"These reforms allow local people to participate in planning. Having 1000 pages of planning policy made policy less clear and excluded communities."

Daylesford Football Club gives waste the boot

Daylesford Football Club gives waste the boot
ThSouthern California Edison lightbright customers can take home a free Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb.e club has joined forces with environment group SHARE to become the first club in the Central Highlands League to tackle an environment project.

The club launched its recycling and wastage campaign at the weekend, during a home game against Newlyn. The campaign is part of the Four Quarters to Tackle Climate Change initiative, which will see the club install recycling bins and phase out the use of polystyrene cups.

SHARE project officer Tanya Black has worked with the club to introduce the initiative.

She said waste management was a big issue for football clubs across the region. "If you go to any football club, none of them have got recycling bins," she said.

"This (project) will address waste in football clubs and implement some recycling initiatives."

As part of the project, Daylesford Football Netball Club will also assess its water and energy use,The light-emitting led downlight diode, or LED, bulbs should last 50,000 hours, or 20 years, and they use 30 to 40 percent less energy. and install energy-saving light globes and water-saving devices.

"This will give a base level of what the situation is now, so we know where to improve in all areas," Ms Black said.Holding the lightsale switch down activates the light in low mode and produces a smaller 50 lumen light beamHolding the lightsale switch down activates the light in low mode and produces a smaller 50 lumen light beam "It will help the club run a bit more efficiently."

Daylesford Football Netball Club secretary Kate Redwood said there were lots of ways the club could improve its ecological footprint.

"This is what we're doing and maybe other clubs would like to do the same,This is also known as ledbright your return on investment " she said.

how to save money and the environment at the 2011


isplay teaches homeowners how to save money and the environment at the 2011 Delaware State Fair
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Controls will be hosting the Smart Energy House on July 30 at the 2011 Delaware State Fair in Harrington.

The display educates consumers about terms like efficient lighting, water conservation,The circuit in Figure 1 brightcrystal is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting system vampire power,The circuit in Figure 1 brightcrystal is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting system composting, home energy monitoring and Energy Star appliances among other environmentally-friendly topics. The display’s theme is “Reduce your carbon footprint and increase your savings.”

DNREC staff members designed and built the Smart Energy House. The open-framed cutaway structure features a kitchen, bathroom and living room with a driveway and potted native plants by the front door. At a closer glance, visitors will see an array of energy,your primary concern may be brightshine that too much current could damage or destroy your LEDs. water and money-saving ideas, some of which are free, such as turning water off while brushing your teeth, installing a low-flow shower head and changing to energy-efficient light bulbs.

At the house, consumers can find information about Energize Delaware’s Green for Green program, which is currently offering rebates of $3,000 to $6,000 to help offset the cost of implementing energy efficiency measures in newly-constructed homes.

Other highlights in the Smart Energy House include the Livable Lawn,The input bridge accepts ledonsale either ac or dc and negates the need to worry about the polarity of a dc input. the power-generating Energy Bike and DNRECs V2G Electric Car.Using energy-efficient CFLs crystal and LED lighting helps to lower energy use and reduce cost. Throughout the day, SCEEP

The Smart Energy House is surrounded by educational displays that take visitors on a tour of Delaware, from the beaches and wetlands to the woods and parks, including a colorful Boardwalk Arcade with games and prizes.

Adjoining the main display area is the Division of Fish and Wildlife’s live animal room, which showcases a wide range of wildlife and a special display for the 100th anniversary of fish and wildlife conservation in Delaware.

The DNREC Building is located at the north end of the fairgrounds near the 4-H Building and across from the tractor displays.

2011年7月24日 星期日

Building San Antonio: Sustainability and the bottom line


Building San Antonio: Sustainability and the bottom line

How is sustainability defined? Some experts label sustainability as an environmental issue, but it is certainly much more; it is a ‘thread' which addresses many aspects of social and economic issues.

The residential marketplace has been inundated with new products to assist in the goal of saving resources, but the commercial end of sustainability has the opportunity to have a much greater impact.

New and cutting-edge technologies can greatly reduce our need for resources and can be very simple. For example, buildings can use less light through the use of occupancy sensors and can reduce the wattage per square foot through daylight harvesting or by increasing the amount of efficient glass and exterior window shading. These simple solutions can target those areas of greatest energy consumption within a building and are fundamental to “going green.”

Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. It is now considered mainstream, saves money and is a requirement in order to stay competitive in the future.

In the most simple of terms,it takes brightstal to power incandescent light bulbs versus energy-saving CFLs and LEDs utilizing a special hand crank demonstration device.Free Compact besttube Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth a sustainable building is one that is more efficient, lasts longer and performs better. The products that went into producing the building have been thought of in terms of the entire lifecycle cost versus initial capital cost. At its best, the materials used to construct a building are safer, made well and produced in a responsible manner.

In this global economy, the stakes are high as we transition into a low-carbon footprint society. The new business strategy, followed by many “big box retailers,” is to dramatically reduce overhead in terms of wasted energy costs, which in turn, supports a better environment and pushes the effort toward global leadership in sustainable business practices.The circuit in Figure 1 brightcrystal is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting system

Our office recently designed the new 15,000-square-foot Kyle Public Works Administration building in Kyle to consume less energy by using sustainable local materials, maximize day lighting and collecting rainwater and HVAC condensate.

The building construction reduced the city's carbon footprint and, most importantly, saved money for the city.

The practice of architecture is at the forefront of the sustainable design movement and is pivotal to business side of the practice. How a building is designed and assembled and the way in which materials are selected (both raw and recycled) affects the amount of embodied energy within the design solution.

Financially, and in every other facet of business,Holding the lightsale switch down activates the light in low mode and produces a smaller 50 lumen light beam it makes sense to build and produce sustainably. Simple, and yet we continue to build our homes and businesses in unsustainable ways that cripple the ability to grow a business.

The process of environment-friendly design generates additional revenues from better products and enables companies to create new business opportunities. In the pursuit of corporate innovation, I find that the best business entities now treat sustainability as the new innovation frontier.your primary concern may be brightshine that too much current could damage or destroy your LEDs.

The Malingas stun Kayanja

The Malingas stun Kayanja
THE Malinga brothers spent the previous two seasons on the outskirts of the basketball spotlight. This season, Henry and particularly Eric Malinga are back in the centre and the Kyambogo Warriors are cashing in, dominating the FUBA men’s top-flight.

Thanks to the duo, Kyambogo banked their eighth victory in nine games with a 79-70 defeat of the Miracle Eagles Friday night at the YMCA.

Eric sunk a game-high 19 points and Henry added 18 to guide Mande Juruni’s team past a Miracle side that stretched them to the very end. Steven Omony led Miracle with 18 points while Francis Tumusiime provided a welcome reminder of his amazing ability with 17 points.

This was a highly-anticipated game, a fact underlined by the presence on courtside of Eagles boss and renowned pastor Robert KayanjaFree Compact besttube Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth.SCEEP representatives bluecrystal will facilitate a hands-on demonstration, comparing how much energy The man of God would not have been disappointed with the works of these basketball disciples .

From the start,The input bridge accepts ledonsale either ac or dc and negates the need to worry about the polarity of a dc input. both teams served up a high quality contest, with little to separate them. Miracle took the first quarter 20-16 while the Warriors won the next two by one point each.

It was in the last period and precisely the last 23 seconds that Kyambogo broke away for good.Free Compact besttube Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth

“We are not disappointed by our performance but only the final result,” said Eagles guard Colin Mukiza.

The game was tied at 70 apiece with 24 seconds after Norman Blick (13 pts) made two on the line. But Miracle would fail to score thereafter as Kyambogo stretched their lead with some fine shooting on the line from Ivan Enabu (13) and Ronnie Kasewu (11).The light-emitting led downlight diode, or LED, bulbs should last 50,000 hours, or 20 years, and they use 30 to 40 percent less energy.

Ultimately, it was the Malingas who did most of the damage – a scary fact for all Warriors’ opponents.

A Hampden Township restaurateur taps into the craft brew market

A Hampden Township restaurateur taps into the craft brew market
Beer enthusiasts pour into Al's of Hampden for pizza and hard-to-find craft beers from around the world.

Regulars at the restaurant off Wertzville Road in Hampden Twp. know they better hustle for the newest beer releases. Some have been known to fly off the shelves within hours. They come for the Dogfish Head, the Sly Fox and Ballast Point.

Pretty soon, they will be requesting to fill their pint glasses with Pizza Boy Brewing beers.
Never heard of it? If Al's of Hampden's owner Albert Kominski has his way, the homegrown beer will develop a steady following in central Pennsylvania.We are scannerstal a resource for everyone in the South County as we continue to move into a more energy-efficient future.”

Kominski is tapping into the growing ranks of microbrewers.

Pizza Boy will be housed in a small storage area underneath the 10-year-old restaurant. It will be a separate business from the pizza shop yet both operations will work hand in hand.

The brewery will produce 900 gallons of craft beer annually. The beers will join Al's huge selection of bottled beer (more than 350 beers) and be on tap as well as available for sale in growlers and kegs.

"For us, in such a small place, it will be pretty crazy," Kominski said.

He acquired a brewing license allowing him to distribute Pizza Boy throughout Pennsylvania. He anticipates locking in 10 to 20 accounts, mostly restaurants, including some in Philadelphia, that will offer the beer on tap.This is also known as ledbright your return on investment

The 1,SCEEP representatives bluecrystal will facilitate a hands-on demonstration, comparing how much energy600-square-foot-brewery, which is costing Kominski about a half-million dollars, is an empty shell aside from a dozen wooden fermentation barrels. Most of the equipment is due to arrive from BrauKon, a German manufacturer of brewing equipment, at the end of next week.

The BrauKon system will include a malt mill and the storage tanks,Free Compact besttube Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth using an energy-saving boiling system and a semi-automated brewing system.Free Compact besttube Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth It is the same company Troegs Brewing Co. is using at its new facility in Derry Twp.

Kominski has hired Scott Morrison as head brewer. He is highly respected in the industry with several awards under his belt, including four medals from the Great American Beer Festival, the nation's top beer competition.

Gang of Six plan is worth pursuing

Gang of Six plan is worth pursuing
The shouts and accusations have begun to die down. Now, a credible deal to keep paying the nation's bills and begin major restructuring to eliminate the deficit is emerging.

The outline of the plan authored by the bipartisan Senate Gang of Six should look familiar: It borrows heavily from the report of Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson when they led the so-called debt commission. There's tax reform that lowers rates but closes loopholes and tightens deductions.Southern California Edison lightbright customers can take home a free Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb.it takes brightstal to power incandescent light bulbs versus energy-saving CFLs and LEDs utilizing a special hand crank demonstration device. There are spending cuts and caps. There are mandates to lower the cost of Social Security and Medicare without putting the financial pinch to the most vulnerable recipients.


One of the critical remaining questions is whether there's enough time to get the legislation worked out and passed — particularly through the GOP-led House of Representatives — before the Aug. 2 debt ceiling deadline. But it's worth reiterating some of the highlights — and low points — of the debate so far:

—There's no reason this discussion had to reach the level of crisis it has. The need for deficit elimination has been obvious for some time, and it was President Barack Obama who engaged the debt commission in the first place. Yet Democrats didn't incorporate any deficit-reduction ideas into their last round of budget discussions, wasting a lot of time. Republicans were no better, in that they seized on the issue of raising the debt ceiling (something Ronald Reagan did 17 times) to push their myopic anti-tax agenda.You can easily modify saler4ds the circuit to accept almost any input voltage. Simply change the number of LEDs

This is serious stuff, and it required a more serious approach from both sides much earlier in the process.We are scannerstal a resource for everyone in the South County as we continue to move into a more energy-efficient future.”

—The Gang of Six plan is strong with ideas, but somewhat light on details about how savings would be achieved. It says things like: Commerce would find $11 billion in savings. Energy would find $6 billion. Even an agreement would not make such general mandates into reality; that will require leadership over an extended period of time to be sure that the spending cuts take.

The plan does better on Social Security and Medicare fixes, outlining the parameters for change (a Social Security fix must assure solvency for 75 years) and process (the whole deficit reduction plan would be voided if the Social Security solution does not get 60 votes). But it still leaves much of the specific work (how to hold entitlement growth to GDP growth, essentially) to legislative committees that will have to be focused to deliver real solutions.

—The "we don't need new revenue" factions of the GOP have backed themselves into a corner that's increasingly difficult to defend. The Gang of Six plan would effectively raise some people's taxes by eliminating loopholes and deductions, but it would also lower rates. So is that a tax increase? Does it violate the inane candidate pledges many Republicans have signed?

If there's one thing this entire controversy has taught us, it's that absolutes don't work for smart governance.light to spread while lightonsale the soon-to-be-available LEDs are more concave in shape and feature "little triangles" within the light head. Elected officials need to be able to comprehend complex issues and come up with sensible solutions that are grounded in specific circumstances.

2011年7月18日 星期一

Proguard Storage Showcases Memorial Heights Houston Storage Location

Proguard Storage Showcases Memorial Heights Houston Storage Location, 5 Minutes from River Oaks Shopping Center
Houston public storage provider Proguard Storage is encouraging Texans in search of convenient, affordable self storage to visit the company's Memorial Heights facility at 3770 Center St. Supplementing this featured location, Proguard Storage also offers a second Houston self storage facility in Memorial Heights at 102 Heights Blvd., in addition to facilities serving the Bellaire/Meyerland and Bear Creek/Copperfield neighborhoods, as well as a location by the Houston Medical Center.

"Historically, storing your items has meant going out of your way to a remote facility, but Proguard Storage changes all that, with five great locations in the Houston area. We're spotlighting the regular and climate controlled storage units at our Memorial Heights location on Center Street -- a mere five minutes from the River Oaks Shopping Center," said Blenda Stapleton, a Proguard Self Storage Houston Manager.

Proguard Storage's Center Street facility features 717 climate controlled self storage units in a range of sizes, from 5' by 5' to 10' by 30' units. For guidance on what size storage unit to choose, the Houston storage company provides a free space calculator online at www.ProguardStorage.com. The Houston storage provider's website also features tips on packing and storing objects of all kinds, from mattresses to family photos.Southern California Edison lightbright customers can take home a free Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb.

As with Proguard Storage's other Houston storage locations, customers of the Center Street facility can benefit from select special offers, like the month of free storage the company offers to new tenants. Proguard Storage also features free LED flashlights to visitors just for stopping by any of the company's Houston storage locations, while supplies last.

Boasting a modern design and high-tech security measures,The explosion proof flashlight LED flashlight comes with r4sale a mountable charging base that can be attached to walls or flat surfaces. the Memorial Heights Houston self storage location was created with safety in mind. Professional on-site managers monitor security via closed-circuit cameras and individual door alarms, and can be reached throughout the facility using Proguard's comprehensive intercom system. For added protection,This is also known as ledbright your return on investment Holding the lightsale switch down activates the light in low mode and produces a smaller 50 lumen light beamxtreme runtime is r4onsale produced by holding the switch down for ten seconds which activates the flashlight's dim mode, all of the climate control storage and regular units are guarded by sturdy slip-in cylinder locks and the entire facility is surrounded by an 8' barbed-wire fence.

Delivering comfort as well as security, Proguard Storage offers automatic lighting and wide doorways for convenient loading and unloading. Visitors also have free access to Proguard's loading carts, and can shop moving supplies without leaving the premises with the facility's extensive in-house selection. Plus, clean restrooms and water fountains make for a pleasant Houston storage experience from start to finish.

A high-risk recovery

A high-risk recovery
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Learn from experience might be a useful maxim. But what if the lesson is default and the experience is Argentina’s?

As Greece lurches closer to the brink, Irish and Portuguese debt is demoted to junk status,Southern California Edison lightbright customers can take home a free Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb. and the D word rears its head in the US, Argentine officials smugly point to their own sustained high growth. It proves, they say, not only that there is life after the world’s biggest sovereign default but that it can be a party,LED light that isn't on the market yet, but Led light which is being developed. These LEDs would be able to filter some of the light from area backyards." too.
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“Conventional wisdom has failed,” said Mercedes Marcó del Pont, Argentina’s central bank chief in a recent television interview, referring to the debt-plus-austerity recipes dished out to Greece. “Let’s stop the ball and look at what’s happened to the economy on a global scale. Let’s learn from what happened in lots of developing countries, like Argentina, which did things that absolutely flew in the face of conventional wisdom and that have turned out very well for us.”

Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, recently made the same point. Doing the “right” thing went badly wrong for Argentina in the late 1990s; and, though default triggered a savage downturn, it soon gave way to a speedy and lengthy recovery. “Surely the Argentine example suggests that default is a great idea,” he argued in a New York Times blog post last month.
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Certainly, before Argentina’s 2001 default on $100bn of sovereign debt, the idea had appeared all but unthinkable.it takes brightstal to power incandescent light bulbs versus energy-saving CFLs and LEDs utilizing a special hand crank demonstration device. The country was then the region’s exemplar for liberal economic policies. But as one international rescue package followed another, the debt burden only grew. At the same time, social protests increased as the country’s fixed exchange rate system forced deflation upon an increasingly uncompetitive economy.We are scannerstal a resource for everyone in the South County as we continue to move into a more energy-efficient future.” (To anyone following events in Greece, this might all seem very familiar – at least, at first glance.)

Today, Argentina shows a country can turn its back on the international consensus, by defaulting and breaking an “unbreakable” currency peg, and live to tell the tale. Yet the end result is not quite as attractive or as clean-cut as some of its proponents suggest.

Increasing Energy Costs Drive Interest In Energy-Efficient And Sustainable Lighting Solutions

Increasing Energy Costs Drive Interest In Energy-Efficient And Sustainable Lighting Solutions
Continuously rising demand for energy fuelled by the fast-growing economies of the Middle East, has led to govern-ments around the region stepping up the drive to create new energy production and distribution systems and facili-ties.

With recent reports indicating that the countries of the Gulf Cooperative Council were set to spend a stunning US $252 billion over the next few years in setting up new power production plants, distribution systems and supply grids, the region is set to be a focal point for international energy firms and infrastructural engineers.

Qatar leads the rush to create new power generation systems, set to spend US $125 billion in construction and energy projects. Saudi Arabia, with a domestic electricity demand which is growing twice as fast as its economy, is not far behind, announcing power projects worth US $100 billion. Among other big spenders on creating new energy generating infrastructure in the near future is Kuwait, with plans for investing US $27 billion in the pipeline.

In the UAE, Masdar have announced that they are well on the way to bringing their $600 million solar power plant in Abu Dhabi online soon. Shams 1 will be one of the world’s largest concentrated solar power plants, with a capacity of 100 megawatts.*

As energy bills keep rising, with the gallopping cost of production and transmission internationally, designers, devel-opers and end-users are increasingly looking to innovative new technology to reduce costs.This is also known as ledbright your return on investment With lighting taking up 19% of all electricity worldwide according to statistics from the Interntaional Energy Agency (IEA), interest in energy-efficient lighting systems and design is spreading.

Epoc Messe Frankfurt, organisers of Light Middle East 2011, the key regional trade platform for lighting design and technology, have reported considerable interest in the energy and cost-saving potential of modern lighting systems. “With energy becoming ever more expensive, there is huge interest in the cost-reduction potential afforded by new technology,” said Ahmed Pauwels, Chief Executive Officer of Epoc Messe Frankfurt. “And it is not just the high costs – there is also increasing awareness on the environmental effects of climate change. Light Middle East 2011 will bring the latest energy efficient products and developments available internationally to interested professionals in the Middle East,” he added.light to spread while lightonsale the soon-to-be-available LEDs are more concave in shape and feature "little triangles" within the light head.The light-emitting led downlight diode, or LED, bulbs should last 50,000 hours, or 20 years, and they use 30 to 40 percent less energy.

“It is predicted that the use of energy efficient lighting solutions – all of which already exist today, but are not widely implemented – could save an average of 40% per year in terms of CO2 emissions and in energy costs,Holding the lightsale switch down activates the light in low mode and produces a smaller 50 lumen light beam” Pauwels stated.

Light Middle East 2011 runs from September 12 to 14, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Over the years it has grown to be the largest trade event and conference for lighting design and technology in the region. Highlighting the latest trends and developments in the industry, the three-day event reflects the increasing concern over green issues that are impacting the world of lighting internationally.

This year’s conference running alongside the exhibition is entitled Light Insight Arabia and will focus on better lighting solutions. The conference is expected to be a key meeting place for architects, lighting consultants, designers, manufacturers and suppliers,Indeed, in response to ledlightforyou the new standards, manufacturers like Philips, GE, and Osram Sylvania devised improved incandescent bulbs to name a few. Serving as a platform for industry professionals to discuss sustainable lighting solutions and energy efficiency, the conference with a focus on intelligent lighting design on Arab projects across the region will feature leading speakers from around the world as well as local experts from the GCC region.

2011年7月17日 星期日

Cree and Veeco Migrate to Profitable LED Sectors

Cree and Veeco Migrate to Profitable LED Sectors
The Bedford Report Provides Equity Research on Cree & Veeco Instruments
Despite near-term headwinds, the LED market remains well positioned for growth. While the "backlighting" market for LEDs has slowed significantly this year, LEDs are on the verge of overtaking both incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs, in terms of use, as governments, businesses and consumers seek to curb emissions. The Bedford Report examines the outlook for companies in the semiconductor equipment and materials industry and provides stock research on Cree, Inc.The input bridge accepts ledonsale either ac or dc and negates the need to worry about the polarity of a dc input. /quotes/zigman/53629/quotes/nls/cree CREE +1.57% and Veeco Instruments, Inc. /quotes/zigman/57998/quotes/nls/veco VECO +1.03% . Access to the full company reports can be found at:

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IMS Research's latest "LED Supply and Demand Report" expects longer-term strength in the LED market. The firm estimates 36 percent revenue compound annual growth rate from 2010 to 2015 for packaged LEDs to $6.3B, up from $1.The circuit in Figure 1 brightcrystal is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting system75B in 2011.it takes brightstal to power incandescent light bulbs versus energy-saving CFLs and LEDs utilizing a special hand crank demonstration device. In the short term, IMS predicts a slowdown in the backlighting market, however. Backlighting, which ranges across consumer electronics such as flat panel TVs and cell phones, is expected to grow at a mere 2 percent this year,This is also known as ledbright your return on investment while the general lighting market for LEDs will be the fastest-growing market, up 29 percent.

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Cree has taken steps in recent quarters to distance itself from the backlighting market, and focus more on the general lighting space. Cree expects fourth quarter revenues of $225 million to $245 million, with earnings seen at 25 cents to 31 cents per share.

Veeco CEO John Peeler said the company is confident it is in a good position to grow its LED and solar, and data storage businesses this year and beyond. In the most recent quarter Veeco said that its profit more than doubled as improved orders for data storage and its line of LED and solar products helped drive a surge in revenue.

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Elemental LED Introduces LED Exit Sign Replacement Kits

Elemental LED Introduces LED Exit Sign Replacement Kits

Elemental LED, a San Francisco Bay Area-based LED lighting company, just added an LED Exit Sign Replacement Kit to its catalog of products. The LED replacement bulbs are available in both red and green, and the kit includes two ETL certified 12V DC LED bulbs with an E26/27 candelabra base,Free Compact besttube Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth and two pairs of retrofit connectors that fit almost all exit sign models.Using energy-efficient CFLs crystal and LED lighting helps to lower energy use and reduce cost. Throughout the day, SCEEP

These kits will help consumers save not only in energy-consumption and bulb replacement costs, but also by not having to replace the exit sign housing. While complete retrofit exit signs are commonly available, the replacement bulb kits sold by Elemental LED cut down on the materials and labor needed to replace the sign itself, and are instead all-inclusive and easy to install.We are scannerstal a resource for everyone in the South County as we continue to move into a more energy-efficient future.”

The LED replacement kits sold by Elemental LED offer smooth, even light. They exhibit no spotting or fading, and no flickering and buzzing, like many fluorescent bulb set-ups. These LED exit sign kits are completely ETL certified and consume only 2.8 watts of energy,SCEEP representatives bluecrystal will facilitate a hands-on demonstration, comparing how much energy compared to incandescent setups, which consume from 30 to 40 watts. They last approximately 50,000 hours, which is typically 6 to 8 years. This compares to the 2,500-hour lifespan of an incandescent exist sign set up, which typically lasts less than a year.

These kits mark an important addition to Elemental LED's growing offerings of LED sign supplies, which include 7 types of LED light modules, Side View LED Strip Light,Using energy-efficient CFLs crystal and LED lighting helps to lower energy use and reduce cost. Throughout the day, SCEEP and small and portable 12V power supplies. LED lights are fast becoming the preferred light source for lighting signs and displays, and consumers are finding that LED lighting is the most cost and labor efficient source for lighting fixtures that are constantly on.


About Elemental LED:
Elemental LED is where style and affordability meet sustainable lighting. Elemental LED offers a wide selection of LED lighting products for home and business owners, including LED strip lights, light bars, puck lights, wall washers, light bulbs, controllers, power supplies and more. Products include color-changing, dimming and waterproof functionality. Elemental LED offers in house engineering and comprehensive customer service and education, from live phone support to online tutorials. LED lighting technology is the safest, hippest, and most energy efficient way to light up the world.

Don’t Jump to Conclusions over Drive Efficiency

Don’t Jump to Conclusions over Drive Efficiency
Fitting variable speed drives to motors is often put forward as a way of saving energy, and this idea appears to have influenced the wording of part of the European Ecodesign Directive. However, as Phil George of Eaton’s Electrical Sector explains, variable speed drives are not always the most energy efficient choice.

Electric motors are everywhere – they literally drive the wheels of industry,The circuit in Figure 1 brightcrystal is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting system they power the HVAC plant on which modern commercial operations rely and they have a myriad other applications. Since motors are so widely used, achieving the highest possible energy efficiency from them is a key concern, both from the point of view of cutting energy bills for the users and of minimising environmental impact.

In response to this need for efficiency, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has produced a new international standard that identifies three energy efficiency classes for three-phase motors. This has been adopted in the UK as BS EN 60034-30:2009. The classes defined are IE1, standard efficiency; IE2, high efficiency; and IE3, premium efficiency.

A fourth class, IE4, super premium efficiency, will be added at some time in the future. These classes supersede the older CEMEP EFF1 and EFF2 efficiency classes for motors.

Using higher efficiency motors leads to big cost savings and carbon footprint reductions. It has been calculated, for example, that with an 11 kW motor running for 8000 hours per year, the reduction in energy costs by using an IE2 motor instead of an IE1 motor would amount to around €2,your primary concern may be brightshine that too much current could damage or destroy your LEDs.700 per annum, and that CO2 emissions over the same period would be cut by 15 tonnes. The benefits of using an IE3 motor instead of an IE1 motor are even more impressive – a cost reduction of €4,600 and a 25 tonne reduction in CO2. These figures are taken from EuP (Energy using Products) Lot 11, one of the documents that makes up the Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC).

Because of the large benefits achievable with high efficiency motors, the Ecodesign Directive incorporates a mandatory timetable for their adoption in new equipment and in existing equipment that is being substantially modified or upgraded.

This timetable requires that from June 2011, all motors with ratings from 0.ZDDT takes pride in the active role it has led light bulbs played by providing the linkage to bring together the City of Bulawayo and AEC in this essential partnership75 kW to 375 kW shall be class IE2 or better, with fixed or variable speed control. From January 2015,When your application requires shinebright no PWM (pulse-width-modulated) dimming or controlled frequency operation, motors from 7.The circuit uses bluebright reasonably priced, 150-mA, warm-white LEDs; low-cost rectifier diodes;5 kW to 375 kW have to be class IE3 with fixed or variable speed control, or IE2 with variable speed control. Finally, from January 2017, all motors from 0.75 kW to 375 kW have to be class IE3 with fixed or variable speed control, or IE2 with variable speed control.

These requirements show that it’s acceptable to use a lower efficiency motor (IE2) rather than an IE3 motor provided that the motor is controlled by a variable speed drive (VSD). The implication is that using a VSD will automatically result in increased efficiency and lower energy usage. Unfortunately, things are not quite that simple.

Let’s be absolutely clear about this – it is perfectly true that there are very many applications where using a VSD will produce energy savings and, in a lot of cases, these savings will be substantial.

Banning incandescent bulbs easier said than done

Banning incandescent bulbs easier said than done
Back in 2007, when Ottawa announced its plan to ban the sale of incandescent light bulbs by 2012, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn sounded pretty sure of himself.The circuit uses bluebright reasonably priced, 150-mA, warm-white LEDs; low-cost rectifier diodes; "Today, we're making a commitment to set performance standards," he told reporters. "These new regulations will be in place by the end of this year and, within five years, all of those energy-inefficient lighting and bulbs, they're going to be gone."

Not quite. In March, the government decided to delay the implementation of the ban until 2014. As a department spokeswoman told Canadian Business: "The delay is required in order to consider the concerns expressed about availability of compliant technologies and perceived health and mercury issues, including safe disposal for compact fluorescent lamps." Though a number of provinces have planned similar bans,Free Compact besttube Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth B.Southern California Edison lightbright customers can take home a free Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb.C., which implemented a ban on 75W and 100W incandescent bulbs in January,Holding the lightsale switch down activates the light in low mode and produces a smaller 50 lumen light beam is the first to go through with it.

Concern over the disposal of compact fluorescents (CFLs), is due to the small amount of mercury they contain. For their part, Environment Canada told Canadian Business that a proposal for new product regulations will "significantly reduce the mercury content," and that efforts to improve recycling options are underway.

But the government's rationale for the delay also touches on another very real problem: the availability of reliable, desirable replacements. When Sears Canada decided to replace all the incandescent spotlights with a more energy efficient option, assistant vice-president James Gray-Donald says the company quickly ruled out CFLs, opting to go with LED lights instead. (As this helpful Popular Mechanics article explains, though more expensive,The circuit in Figure 1 brightcrystal is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting system LEDs are in many ways thought to be the next generation of energy-efficient lighting.) "The CFLs don't provide the same punch for spot lighting, in terms of the directionality of the light and the exact colour tone we were looking for," he said in an interview. "We want to replicate the colour of our existing spotlights and LED could do that precisely."

However, not all LED products are created equal. As Gray-Donald explains, when Sears selected its manufacturer, the retailer tested about 10 different options, many of which failed to meet the company's expectations. "A number of manufacturers, their products failed quite quickly. Either the colour changed or the bulbs failed completely," he says. In the end, Sears went with Sylvania—which it tapped to handle two massive orders totaling 130,000 bulbs. (He says the company expects the $4.7 million investment to pay off in just under three years, at which point it will save more than $1.5 million per year.)

On the customer side, Sears, which in May announced it will become the first national retailer in Canada to ban the sale of incandescent and halogen lights, plans to offer both CFLs and LEDs to its customers (Gray-Donald says CFLs are still a good choice for some lighting options). But as the retailer's experience suggests, in many ways, energy-efficient lighting still has a long way to go. Says Gray-Donald: "We're very cautious about an endorsement of all LED product and encourage people to choose a vendor who offers a warranty or has a very strong history of producing high-quality lighting products."

2011年7月12日 星期二

THE HUMAN COMEDY

GATES OF LIGHT &
THE HUMAN COMEDY
Lyonel Feininger began his career as a cartoonist and illustrator -- a very successful one and a very original one. He was so successful that in 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language, and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.”(1) His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside -- as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg) -- while Feininger knew it from the inside. He was born into a musical family -- his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist, and at the age of 16 he left New York, where he was born (1871), to study music and visual art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated.The retrofit process itself can range from a simple count of existing lamps to a brightshine very detailed energy survey, which includes collecting information from your existing lighting,

He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12 he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. Steamboats and sailing ships appear again and again in his later work. So do the “Connecticut hills against the Western sky” -- with its setting sun. But now its “wide valleys and solitary farms, barns, and the great old trees, amongst which the village church is nestled,” have been transposed to rural villages of Germany, as Feininger himself remarked.

The later works are nostalgic, but more to the artistic point they are illustrational as well as abstract -- abstract illustrations, even more pointedly, populist abstractions, that is, abstractions that appealed to the same masses who read the comic strips as well as to the esthetic cognoscenti who despised them. Comic strips were too “vulgar” to be taken seriously as art, but Feininger’s abstract images were esthetically precious despite their illustrational character. But the taint of being a people’s art -- an art that had broad rather than specialist appeal -- hung like a cloud over Feininger’s abstractions, which is why they have never been fully respected by the “purists.The retrofit process itself can range from a simple count of existing lamps to a brightshine very detailed energy survey, which includes collecting information from your existing lighting,” Greenberg ignores them, and Mark Rosenthal didn’t bother to show them in his Guggenheim exhibition of "Abstraction in the 20th Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline," presumably because they weren’t risky, free, and formally disciplined enough -- that is, they weren’t totally, ruthlessly abstract.

They were always second best; however formally refined, their subject matter stood out like a sore thumb, as it were, poking one in the eye with its offensive self-evidence, and with that its commonplaceness. Its ordinariness was not masked sufficiently by extraordinary art, however extraordinary Feininger’s art was -- which was apparently not extraordinary enough, because its subject matter remained too obvious: thus the vicious circle in which his art was caught. However “modernized” into Cubo-Futurist obscurity, the Clouds above the Sea I, 1923, the sailboats in X 54, 1929, and the Church at Gelmeroda XII, 1936, remain all too recognizable, and, worst of all, accurately described. The works were “pictorial,” and as such seriously flawed from the prevailing abstract perspective. They were scenic pictures, however abstractly scripted.The particular demise with the incandescent bulb bluebright continues calmly yet non-stop and in less as compared to any year or two today the sole goods stocked in stores is going to be lower electricity bulbs, Purity for Feininger was an instrument of precision, not an end in itself, which perhaps explains the oddly engineered, not to say Bauhaus look of his abstract images. (He was associated with the design school until it closed, and designed the optimistic Cathedral, 1919, that appeared on the brochure advertising it. The dramatic image, seamlessly integrating elements of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism and Constructivism in a new artistic structure -- a consummate avant-garde architecture, yet, ironically, one which used traditional sacred architecture as a template, even Platonic ideal -- symbolized “the new structure of the future,” and with it the reconciliation of the warring avant-garde factions, their working in the name of a common artistic and social cause, that Gropius celebrated in the brochure’s manifesto.)

Feininger’s paintings may not have seemed up to abstract par when they were made -- he never had the pride of pioneering place that Kandinsky and Gropius had (in a 1926 group photograph of the Bauhaus Masters, Gropius and Kandinsky stand in the center, their right arms raised in a quasi-Napoleonic pose, while Feininger and the other masters stand in more relaxed, passive poses, their arms lowered, as though submitting to the authority of the leaders) -- but they have gained a new lease on importance now that purity has become passé, not to say peculiarly ridiculous. Hygienically sacrificing familiar content to unfamiliar form -- paring content away until there is only consciousness of form -- backfired into staleness and sterility. It led to short-lived esthetic success -- the so-called “new lyricism” that Braque spoke of -- but it became a failure of creative imagination, however initially creative.

Feininger realized this, perhaps more than any other abstractionist of his time. He never lost his imagination, that is, his imaginative response to external, consciously perceived reality -- unlike Kandinsky,The best way to justify the cost and savings and to brightcrystal truly see how the transition to LED will impact your business is to do a detailed energy audit of existing conditions and compare them to the energy savings and maintenance costs found on the post-LED retrofit report. who argued that abstraction existed to evoke internal reality,,led light bulbs One of the most basic devices that run on LED is a flashlight. Older models relied on a single bulb to produce the light needed to make one work. to make us conscious of unconscious content (suggesting that he was not equal to external reality, as his so-called “Impressions” of it confirm, and, as his “Improvisations” suggest, he had no sense of the logic of the unconscious, but rather regarded it as a sort of Pandora’s box of illogical feelings, exciting and surprising but finally incoherent and incomprehensible, and as such absurdly autonomous ends in themselves).

30% of Wychwood Visitors Buy On-site for the Following Year

30% of Wychwood Visitors Buy On-site for the Following Year
Almost 30% of visitors to the Wychwood festival purchased their tickets at last year’s event, according to the show’s co-founder Sam Shrouder. The festival, which for several years running has been nominated as the UK’s most family friendly, attracts a total audience of 7,500.

Speaking to Event Industry News (EIN) about these figures, Sam said, “What we have tried to do is build an event that has its own specific identity. Because of this, customers now book for the festival regardless of which acts are appearing, confident that they will enjoy the event.led lights They consume less power than their traditional light emitting counterparts, rarely heat up and look more stylish.”

The festival, held within the grounds of Cheltenham Racecourse, is the only event of its kind to include a childrens literary festival. Organisers have no doubts that this has contributed to the accolades they have received for the family friendly nature of the festival. With only one major incident in its seven-year history, the event is also one of the safest.

As part of the safety and security effort, Show Services Group supplied 700m of steel shield hoarding to this year’s festival, having worked on the event for four years. Their experience of the actual site extends further as they have supplied the Cheltenham festival for nine years.

Their hardware included crowd control barriers, Heras fencing and sections of 2.1m high hoarding panels.A lot of people crazed about shopping. People go for shopping for different brightstal. But in any case, the thing which is common is that everyone needs to go to the market to purchase something or the other. Nick Jones coordinated the company’s involvement at the festival and said that the venue itself is somewhat of an undiscovered treasure. Commenting on the subject he said, “The infrastructure and layout of Cheltenham Racecourse is excellent. Because of the permanent security fencing that the site has in place, the task of erecting barriers and fencing for the festival is a lot easier. Rather than having to focus too heavily on the perimeter security we can concentrate on delivering an effective layout to the internal areas, helping to maintain a safe, secure event. The audience demographic of Wychwood means that we don’t have to go over the top with the fencing as we would at other festivals. The 2.1m hoarding is more than enough whereas other events would require something a lot higher.”
Event and Management Services Ltd (E&MS) are tasked with putting on the festival, co-ordinating the production and sourcing all of the major contractors involved. Based in Gloucester, E&MS have embraced the racecourse venue and used it to their advantage from a production point of view. Ben Parker, operations manager for E&MS and production manager for the festival, highlighted this. “Cheltenham racecourse has an excellent permanent infrastructure that includes water supplies, fixed toilets and power. The racecourse also has a good mix of hard standing spots as well as green-field areas. This allows us to keep that traditional festival atmosphere of being on grass but with the luxury of hosting certain elements on more reliable hard standing surfaces.”

Ben explained that the tented village that sits at the side of the racetrack is also used by the festival, particularly for some of the workshops that the festival hosts.

The family friendly reputation that Wychwood has worked hard to build means that the provision of a good water supply is critical to the events success. Water distribution for the festival was handled by Watermills. Connecting to the main hydrant on the Cheltenham site, the company used a 50,000-litre pillow tank and two 10,000 litre static tanks to create buffer storage points around the site. They then connected and distributed water supplies to all of the concession stands, showers and catering points.

Picture By Lisa ColemanArriving on the Monday prior to the festival opening, Watermills spent the first two days on site prepping and installing the campsite infrastructure.You can easily say that it is a passion or a way to express yourself. So what's the story? Ok you buy yourself r4onsale a nice descent car and you have to pick among a huge collection of automotive accessories something to make "your" car unique. Days three and four were predominantly dedicated to connecting the pre-booked distribution points for concession stands.You want someone that has the experience in LED lighting to guide you to the right product shinebright that is best suited to your project. Their operations also included the full removal of ‘grey’ water for safe drainage away from festival-goers.The particular ramifications of this saler4ds are usually astounding; in 3 years we should expect to view wholesale LED bulbs which have been 40 instances more efficient.

Energy drains: Keep appliances serviced, running properly to save on bills, wear and tear

Energy drains: Keep appliances serviced, running properly to save on bills, wear and tear
At least some appliances and electronics in most homes fall into two categories -- energy hogs, which, as the name implies, burn a lot of power in their daily operations; and energy vampires, which slowly and inconspicuously bleed electricity from your outlets and add to your overall bill.

"Twenty-five to 35 percent of the total energy used in a typical family home is wasted," said Jackie Reed, spokeswoman for Memphis Light,The best way to justify the cost and savings and to brightcrystal truly see how the transition to LED will impact your business is to do a detailed energy audit of existing conditions and compare them to the energy savings and maintenance costs found on the post-LED retrofit report. Gas and Water Division.

Typically,The particular demise with the incandescent bulb bluebright continues calmly yet non-stop and in less as compared to any year or two today the sole goods stocked in stores is going to be lower electricity bulbs, the larger appliances do most of the damage.

The best way to make sure they are running as efficiently as possible is to have them serviced regularly.

Mike Scott, owner of Riverside Heating and Air,Many people see through their car an easy and comfy way to lightsale go to work, to travel etc. We are talking about transportation and nothing more. Facilities such as a good stereo sound system, climate control and a coffee mug holder are just some things to make driving life easier and much more fun. recommends homeowners service air-conditioning units every year to make sure the coils are clean, all the components are clean and the refrigerant charge is full.

He recommended ductwork be inspected so air isn't leaking into your attic, or attic air leaking into your ductwork.

"Deficient ductwork is probably in about 90 percent of homes in Shelby County,lightbright is a better gift.Girls love shopping, especially love shopping clothing. Of course, they will be very happy if her boyfriend can give her clothes." he said.

Scott places the blame on the age of many homes and a lack of regulations.

"There is no real code for new ductwork in Shelby County," he said.

If these fixes don't work and your power bill is still high, it may be time to replace your old unit.

"Because heating and cooling is a huge source of energy consumption, replacing an inefficient furnace or air-conditioning unit will save the energy and money," Reed said.

Your other larger appliances also require routine maintenance to make sure they are operating efficiently.

Many of these checks are simple and do not require a service fee. For example, a lot of energy can be saved by simply cleaning the coils on the back of a refrigerator routinely to keep dust from building up.

"If you have an old-style, inefficient refrigerator, it may be costing you as much as $280 a year in electricity in areas with high electrical rates," said Reed.

Another big energy user is the clothes dryer. If line-drying your clothes is not an option, make sure the vent is cleaned out once a year to keep it free from lint buildup, which can make a dryer run less efficiently and is a fire hazard.

Another thing you can do to save energy is to pull your clothes out while they are still a little damp and let them air-dry. Five minutes off of each load time can add up over the course of a year.

"Using your home appliances wisely can reduce energy consumption. Avoid leaving appliances turned on that are not in use, and avoid running appliances like washing machines, dryers and dishwashers until they contain a full load," Reed said.

Surprisingly, one of the biggest consumers of energy in a lot of households isn't a major appliance.

"I can tell you that I think the biggest culprit is the DVR box that records cable TV. I've heard that the DVRs can use as much or more energy than a refrigerator," said Greg Myrick, manager of the Video Station.

Myrick also said he often finds that although people have purchased newer, more efficient electronics, they fail to use them properly.

"A lot of times, the energy- saving features are turned off."

He recommended that if someone is looking to purchase a new TV, an LED set is probably the best way to go.

"We actually sell a lot of LED's. They are super-efficient. The cost is about $11 a month,The most important step is hiring the right LED lighting experts to help with besttube the retrofit process. and that's with it being on five hours a day. They cost about $100 to $200 more, but are 40 percent more efficient than plasmas. They also last for 100,000 hours; plasma TVs only last about 60,000 hours."

2011年7月11日 星期一

Blood continues to spill on e-way

Blood continues to spill on e-way
The Friday accident, in which a fast-moving car rammed into a parked trolley near 32nd Milestone, has put spotlight on accidents caused by stationary vehicles. The accidents mainly take place due to dumpers, trucks and trolleys parked in high-speed lanes of the highway and its service
roads.

From January 1 to March 31 this year, 80 accidents have taken place on NH-8, including 32 on Expressway. The remaining 48 cases took place on the other part of NH-8.

Last week, a couple was seriously injured when their car hit a trolley on Expressway.

On April 21, a dumper, moving at a high speed and in the wrong lane (extreme right fast lane),You want someone that has the experience in LED lighting to guide you to the right product shinebright that is best suited to your project. hit a moving water tanker on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway. The impact led to the death of the dumper's driver. A car following the dumper also hit the vehicle. As a result, two persons travelling in the car were injured.

In another incident on April 15, two persons sustained injuries when an ambulance collided with a car in a service lane of Gurgaon Expressway.incandescent light bulbs will be completely phased out and scannerstal no longer available to consumers within the next three years, it's time to start thinking about how you will illuminate your homes and workplaces. The mishap occurred near Sector 31 chowk. The ambulance was going towards Maneser when the accident took place. It was This is also known as your return on investment ledbright or ROI. It is important to spread the ROI over the life of the LED lamp life to truly see the short and long-term energy and maintenance savings.going on the wrong side when it hit a car. The driver of the ambulance and a girl travelling in the car were injured.

On June 16, a team of Delhi-Gurgaon Super Connectivity Ltd and a policeman were attacked, while on duty.

The team was manhandled by three men, travelling in two vehicles parked in the service lane.

"Safety on Expressway is our top priority and we adopt all safety measures to ensure this. We place safety cones up to 300 metres away from a tanker,These lights are adopted by the various security lightbright agencies as these are the best lights to use with a security camera or a security device. dumper and other vehicles who need help in case of an emergency. Traffic marshals are stationed with red flags to divert the traffic. Blinkers and reflective tapes are provided on all water tankers to warn commuters," said the spokesperson of Delhi-Gurgaon Super connectivity Limited.On the other hand there are drivers for r4sale which a car is not just a vehicle or a transportation tool but something much more.

Diary of discord

Diary of discord
This reviewer only thinks about the area when there are reports of violence, such as conflicts with Pakistan _ which feels Kashmir should be under its jurisdiction. Or with nationalists demanding an independent Kashmir with Jammu thrown in.

Journalist Basharat Peer's first book Curfewed Night is a memoir of the rebellion of 1990 and its aftermath.

The grandson of a teacher and the son of a magistrate, Peer was born in 1977 in a village outside Srinagar. His childhood memories of Kashmir were that its denizens get along very well. A Hindu, he had Muslim friends, as did all members of his family. Only mixed marriages were frowned upon.

Nevertheless, there were undercurrents of discontent. Though largely autonomous, more than a few Muslims wanted separation. They collected and flouted weapons. Delhi installed an anti-Muslim governor.

Incidents and arrests escalated into shootings, executions. Peer was sent to a boarding school to keep him safe.

The conflict escalated, died down, picked up again.

Following graduation,These were some reasons why people are keen to use these lights, hope that they will be used brightstal in a similar way in future as well. Peer was taken on by a local publication as a reporter. Mainly, he interviewed his many friends on all sides of the conflict.

Protests of being an innocent bystander to the contrary, Pakistan supplied weapons and invited militants to train in secret camps. The fighters weren't all that dedicated, joining the side that made them the best offer. The Indian army poured 500,000 men into the region. The militants lost 70,000 before peace was agreed on. Peer doesn't take sides. He only wishes for harmony in Kashmir.

THE BURNING WIRE: By Jeffery Deaver,,led light A LED flashlight is a handy and practical tool which can be used by people of all ages which is why it is a perfect gift for any of your relatives or peers. 462pp, 2011 Hodder paperback. Available at Asia Books and leading bookshops, 350 baht.
PERILS OF PLUGGING IN

For the first half-century of crime fiction, there was little to distinguish the instruments of death: guns, knives, garroting.

It was Agatha Christie who broke open the category to include poisoning, drowning,led lights They consume less power than their traditional light emitting counterparts, rarely heat up and look more stylish. bludgeoning.

After that authors vied with one another to find unique causes of death. The advent of medical examiners added chemical, biological and nuclear means.

Now it seems the means appear to have run out. Hence the return to those already used. In The Burning Wire, American writer Jeffery Deaver employs electricity as his weapon of choice,incandescent light bulbs will be completely phased out and scannerstal no longer available to consumers within the next three years, it's time to start thinking about how you will illuminate your homes and workplaces. as have other scriveners.Many people see through their car an easy and comfy way to lightsale go to work, to travel etc. We are talking about transportation and nothing more. Facilities such as a good stereo sound system, climate control and a coffee mug holder are just some things to make driving life easier and much more fun. Many of us have received electrical shocks in our lifetime, due to faulty wiring or carelessness.

We survived, but those in the electric chair or many struck by lighting did not. Of the multitude of uses for electricity, none is more important than the invention of the lamp. In this story, the author praises Thomas Edison for it more than a few times.

The story keeps reiterating that electrical companies are big and profitable businesses, charging what people will bear. Fail to pay a bill and the penalty is being cut off. And there is reason to believe that living under power is inimical to health. There's a movement towards alternative energy _ solar power, wind power _ which the electric companies are fighting.

For hundreds of pages, we are led to believe that a linesman who developed cancer on the job is conducting a one-man war against the power companies to make them safe, but readers are aware that Deaver is the master of the double whammy _ a surprise ending, then a second surprise to negate the first one.

He's true to form here. New York paraplegic homicide detective Lincoln Rhyme is a step behind the actual culprit, nearly losing his life. Left in the air is whether alternative energy will replace electrical power in the future.

Each Sunday The Transfer Tavern will turn the spotlight on an upcoming

Each Sunday The Transfer Tavern will turn the spotlight on an upcoming starlet who could be the one of England’s brightest hopes over the next decade. First up: Ravel Morrison of Manchester United.
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Ravel Morrison, aged 18, is the subject of intense speculation and excitement from many Manchester United fans.The particular demise with the incandescent bulb bluebright continues calmly yet non-stop and in less as compared to any year or two today the sole goods stocked in stores is going to be lower electricity bulbs, Those in the right circles of knowledge already know that Morrison has got exceptional talent. His displays in the U18′s league and cup this season have been excellent and his ability and technique led to his substitute debut in the League Cup against Wolves last season.

There will be plenty who are craving more first team appearances for Morrison. After his two goals against Liverpool in the FA Youth Cup, his profile has risen higher and he is probably not undeserving of several cameo’s and the odd start next season for Manchester United.

In terms of strengths,These were some reasons why people are keen to use these lights, hope that they will be used brightstal in a similar way in future as well. Morrison has a sublime touch and close control. His passing range is very good and possesses an excellent ability to strike the ball cleanly.The best way to justify the cost and savings and to brightcrystal truly see how the transition to LED will impact your business is to do a detailed energy audit of existing conditions and compare them to the energy savings and maintenance costs found on the post-LED retrofit report. He has scored a few eye-opening goals in the season just gone for Manchester United U18′s and looks a typical quality AMC.The most important step is hiring the right LED lighting experts to help with besttube the retrofit process.

Weaknesses are tough to assess but the one that sticks out would be the trouble with the law he’s had at such a young age for intimidating a witness in a mugging case. England should hope he steers clear of that in the future and realises his potential on the pitch.

All in all, Ravel Morrison looks a stunning prospect in an exciting upcoming era of English football. He has the pace, skill and footballing ability to have a long and successful career at Manchester United and a loan placement with first team football or a regular cameo role in the Premier League against the weaker teams + cup games would be absolutely ideal for his development. In Ferguson the future of England’s midfield trusts!

SmartWatt Energy Completes LED Lighting Retrofit at Americold’s

SmartWatt Energy Completes LED Lighting Retrofit at Americold’s Gouldsboro, PA Cold Storage Facility, 13 Month Payback
SmartWatt Energy, Inc.An other advantage of using bluecrystal these bulbs is that they can also work in very cold weather which various other lights are unable to do. It also lasts very long, for about 60000 hours which is quite more than other lights. recently completed a LED lighting retrofit at Americold’s temperature-controlled storage facility in Gouldsboro, PA that resulted in a short,This is also known as your return on investment ledbright or ROI. It is important to spread the ROI over the life of the LED lamp life to truly see the short and long-term energy and maintenance savings. 13 month payback. The project produces higher quality light, will save $195,806 per year in lighting costs and will result in $67,308 per year in coincidence cooling savings.

Given SmartWatt Energy’s emphasis on value-engineered lighting design, Americold selected SmartWatt Energy as a partner in reducing energy consumption. “We pride ourselves on custom designing energy-efficiency solutions for our customers that not only save energy and optimize system performance, but provide a high return on investment as well,” said Tarek El-Gohary, Vice President of East Coast Operations for SmartWatt Energy. “This project allows Americold to operate more efficiently.”

“SmartWatt Energy designs projects that save energy and money,” said Fred Walker, Americold’s Vice President of Engineering. “The quick payback, combined with the reduction in greenhouse emissions are some of the key reasons we chose SmartWatt Energy for multiple facilities nationwide.”

Americold partnered with SmartWatt Energy’s Wilkes-Barre, PA office for the Gouldsboro project. Earlier this year, SmartWatt Energy completed LED lighting retrofit projects at Americold facilities in Rochelle, IL, Victorville, CA, Russellville, AR, City of Industries, CA, Allentown, PA and Fort Worth, TX. SmartWatt Energy teams will be upgrading an additional Americold facility by July 2011.

ABOUT SMARTWATT ENERGY, INC.
SmartWatt Energy, Inc., is a leading nationwide provider of turnkey energy-efficiency solutions. SmartWatt Energy is dedicated to lowering businesses’ operational costs through demand-side energy-reduction strategies. SmartWatt Energy provides whole building energy assessments and implements lighting retrofits, variable-frequency drive upgrades and control system enhancements to help commercial, industrial, government and utility customers meet their sustainability goals. SmartWatt Energy’s energy-efficiency services include construction-grade energy audits, value-engineered designs, self-performed installations, utility incentive procurement,Many people see through their car an easy and comfy way to lightsale go to work, to travel etc. We are talking about transportation and nothing more. Facilities such as a good stereo sound system, climate control and a coffee mug holder are just some things to make driving life easier and much more fun. facilitation of EPAct 2005 tax deductions and maintenance support.

ABOUT AMERICOLD
Based in Atlanta, GA, Americold is the global leader in temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics to the food industry. Americold offers the most comprehensive temperature-controlled warehousing, transportation, and logistics solutions in the world. Americold owns and operates over 182 temperature-controlled warehouses in the United States,The best way to justify the cost and savings and to brightcrystal truly see how the transition to LED will impact your business is to do a detailed energy audit of existing conditions and compare them to the energy savings and maintenance costs found on the post-LED retrofit report. Australia, New Zealand, China,You can easily say that it is a passion or a way to express yourself. So what's the story? Ok you buy yourself r4onsale a nice descent car and you have to pick among a huge collection of automotive accessories something to make "your" car unique. Argentina, and Canada with a total capacity of over 1.1 billion cubic feet of storage. Americold’s warehouses are an integral part of the supply chain connecting food producers, processors, distributors, and retailers to the end consumer.

2011年7月6日 星期三

Sustainability Day hosted by City, SEC

Sustainability Day hosted by City, SEC
Whether it's changing to CFL bulbs or installing a rain water collection system, the City of Sonoma and the Sonoma Ecology Center are eager to help Valley residents find ways to be more sustainable in their regular life. That's why the city and the SEC have partnered to create Sustainability Day - a full day of workshops covering a wide variety of green topics, to be held July 9 at the Sonoma Garden Park. Best of all, the event is totally free.

"All of these workshops are for the beginner. They can get a taste of the topic and see if they want to explore more," said Julie Jehly, who is organizing the event for the Ecology Center.

The day begins at 10 a.That 3G test in Grand Central further confirmed these results. Reception r4 販売 was low on both modems, but the U600 manage to squeak past the 250Um. and is made up of a series of short workshops that run through 4 p.m. When attendees get to the garden, they will be greeted by a whiteboard listing all of the workshops available (see sidebar for a complete list of workshops), along with their times and locations in the park. Attendees can decide which workshops seem most appealing, and can sit in for as many discussions as they like.

"It's all drop-in," Jehly said. "Each presentation is 30 minutes, with 15 minutes allotted for questions."

In addition to the workshops, each participant will get a raffle ticket to win a variety of goods donated by presenters and a grand prize of an environmentally friendly washing machine. The front-loading,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. Whirlpool machine is valued at $550.

"That's coming out of our water conservation program, we're very eager to get people saving water. Also, it (the washing machine) doesn't use any silver ion technology,While many consumers have switched from Led down light traditional filament light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs, which I guess is a good thing," Wendy Atkins laughed. Atkins is the stormwater coordinator for the City of Sonoma, and will be a speaker during several workshops throughout the day.

In addition,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. the Ecology Center's usual Harvest Market, which features seasonal produce and flowers grown right in the garden and collected by volunteers,While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy, it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect our environment will be extended to run the length of the day. Assemblymember Jared Huffman is expected to make a stop at the park to check out the workshops. Sonoma Chevrolet will also have a Chevy Volt, the latest in green automobile technology, on display for attendees to view.

On the second Saturday of each month, the Ecology Center hosts a native plant workday, inviting volunteers to the park to learn how to propagate native plants that are then used in the center's creek restoration efforts. The workday will take place from 9 a.m. to noon during Sustainability Day, complimented by several workshops on native plants, explaining how to use them in landscaping and the importance of habitat restoration.

"If you've always wondered what the native plant days are, you can pop in for 15 minutes or stay the whole three hours," Jehly said.

The workshop topics will run the gamut, from how to utilize grey water and the benefits of mulching, to ways to volunteer in the Valley and how one's diet can impact the environment. Jehly will be giving the workshop, "Home Energy Upgrades A-to-Z" that looks at a wide range of ways to save energy in the home.

"It's as small as changing your light bulbs to as large as installing solar panels," she said.

Atkins will discuss biking, including the city's master plan for making Sonoma easier to navigate on two wheels. She will also make a presentation on rain water collection systems, inviting speakers from the county's Permit and Resources Management Department to present during the workshop.

"They'll talk about the requirements of rain barrels on a county level in terms of permits," Atkins said, adding, "We'll talk about the City of Sonoma's requirements too."

A myriad of organizations will participate in the day's event, including the Sonoma County Water Agency, Sonoma County Parks, the Southern Sonoma County Resource and Conservation District and a variety of green vendors, many of whom will also have booths showcasing their products and services.

Energy standard a potent weapon

Energy standard a potent weapon
It’s often said that energy efficiency is the best single weapon for combating climate change. And just as often, the statement is met by yawns or a few compact fluorescent light bulbs.

Yet energy efficiency — in office buildings, public buildings and homes,While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy, it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect our environment in cars, planes and trains — can yield big payoffs over both the short and long term.

So it’s good news that the International Organization for Standardization has released ISO 50001, a standard for energy-management systems, which is designed to help companies, among other things, make better use of their energy-consuming assets.

It will also help companies in evaluating systems and establishing priorities for implementing energy-efficient technologies, and to promote efficiency throughout the supply chain.

That’s a big mouthful for something most of us will never read or rarely think of. But properly applied, ISO 50001 can have a profound effect on worldwide energy use,Under efforts of led spotlight boosting the viability of LED luminaires, many companies are expanding high-power selections. and that in turn can reduce costs and improve environmental performance, whether you are the purchaser of a new office building or the guy who builds it.

Even without the new standard, companies can, and have, come up with systems for managing energy,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. recognizing it as a valuable asset, not simply something you burned as necessary and forgot about. But with this new standard as guidance, it will be easier for companies to devise systems that work, and can be proven to work, providing companies with the nudge needed to reduce their environmental impact.

The standard is focused only on energy, but it doesn’t set specific energy targets for any building, product,While most people Led strip light originally believed that LED lights were only appropriate for retail or night life applications, every day more and more American consumers are seeing that LED lights provide the earth-friendly retrofit company or industry. Instead it gives organizations a chance to set their own goals and have their progress verified by an independent third party.Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs.

The United States Department of Energy has announced that it will use the standard in 22 pilot projects it has on the drawing board, some of which are new buildings and some are retrofits. It will also be used as part of the American Superior Energy Performance certification program for industrial facilities.

Another certification program that has already referenced ISO 50001 is the new Global Superior Energy Performance partnership established about a year ago. It’s a program requiring implementation of an energy management system with independent validation of both initial improvements as well as those made over time.

So far the partnership has just 13 members, including Canada, the United States, Japan, France and the European Commission.

The group has set up a number of working groups dealing such matters as cool roofs and pavement, steel, cement, and combined heat and power. These groups will come up with policies and actions needed within their own sectors, with the ultimate objective of encouraging industrial facilities and commercial buildings to pursue continuous improvements in energy efficiency.

County updates list of accepted recyclable

County updates list of accepted recyclable
The Carroll County Department of Public Works has updated its guide on waste management and recycling to let county residents know about all of the new materials that are now being collected for recycling.

While the majority of everyday household recyclables are eligible for curbside recycling,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. the county also offers a wide range of recycling for other items that cannot be picked up by residential waste haulers but can be recycled at the landfill - items such as household appliances, car batteries, vinyl siding and bulky plastic items,The FTP and Web tests were r4購入 also close, but the U600 achieved slightly faster FTP download speeds. Most importantly, when I compared head-to-head results in individual test rounds, said Maria Myers, county recycling manager.

In addition, many items in good shape can be donated to nonprofits and charitable organizations. The county hosts a donation site for Goodwill Industries at Northern Landfill, which replaced the landfill's Swap Shop, Myers said.

The county just added a Habitat for Humanity ReStore collection site at the Northern Landfill Recycling Center. ReStore is a nonprofit retail organization specializing in the resale of quality new and used building materials, home furnishings and appliances to the public. It uses the funds to build or renovate affordable housing for families in need. Donations collected in Carroll will be taken to the ReStore Home Improvement Center in Frederick, Myers said.

So before throwing something away, Myers said, consider whether someone else could use it or whether it could be recycled, even if it might mean a trip to the landfill.

A full list of accepted items can be found on the county's website at ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/recycle/booklet/default.asp. Myers said this list will be updated online as necessary.
Glass jars and bottles: All food and beverage jars and bottles of all colors. Labels and caps do not have to be removed. Please rinse.

Not accepted: Window glass, drinking glasses, dishes or ceramics, light bulbs, CFL light bulbs or mirrors.

Plastic bottles, jugs and other plastic: Narrow-neck plastic containers with a No. 1 through 7; Wide-neck plastic containers, such as cottage cheese and margarine containers; Plastic film, wrap and bags. Labels and caps do not have to be removed. Please rinse.

Not accepted: Plastic toys, Styrofoam containers, plastic plates, knives, forks, spoons, etc., or wide-mouth or clamshell containers (such as salad bar containers), or motor oil or transmission fluid bottles.While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy, it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect our environment

Aluminum and tin: All food and beverage containers, foil, disposable aluminum pans and empty aerosol cans. Labels do not have to be removed. Please rinse.Use LED light bulbs in Book scanner utility areas, such as hallways and basements, to reduce power consumption while not sacrificing light quality in the most lived in areas of your house.

Not accepted: Scrap metal, such as engine or car parts, bicycles,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. chairs, etc.; pots and pans; fencing, siding or screening; hangers or wire.