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California targets TVs to lower electricity demand (AP)

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient (Update)

Technology / Energy

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching ...





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Building the smart home wirelessly

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a report published in the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications device ...


Just use less: Energy savings to be big part of nation’s energy future

Just use less: Energy savings to be big part of nation’s energy future

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030.


New research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming

New research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

A new study indicates that major chemicals most often cited as leading causes of climate change, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are outclassed in their warming potential by compounds receiving less attention.


Program automatically shuts down office PCs when not in use

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NEC Corp. says it has developed the country's first software that automatically controls power consumption by personal computers in accordance with the patterns of its user's PC activity.


Air pollution increases infants' risk of bronchiolitis

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infants who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution are at increased risk for bronchiolitis, according to a new study.


The collection and storage and retention of the household data makes it vulnerable to security breaches

New 'smart' electrical meters raise privacy issues

Technology / Energy

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 13

The new "smart meters" utilities are installing in homes around the world to reduce energy use raise fresh privacy issues because of the wealth of information about consumer habits they reveal, experts said ...


Online payment firm PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers

PayPal courts outside developers

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers in a move designed to unleash a flood of creative uses for the online financial transaction service.


Funding A Greener Grid

Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network

Technology / Energy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms of energ ...


Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution

Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution

Technology / Energy

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, is underway. Over the next three months, staff from Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet ...


INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Most schoolchildren learn that everything in the universe is a solid, a liquid or a gas. But those lessons miss the fourth and by far most common state of matter: plasma.



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