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Energy efficiency standards for appliances should include upstream costs

Technology / Energy

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Energy should consider gradually changing its system of setting appliance energy-efficiency standards to a full-fuel-cycle measurement, which takes into account both the energy used to operate an appliance, ...





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Water heater choice and maintenance can reduce energy costs

Technology / Energy

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Between 16 and 18 percent of home energy is used to generate hot water, so hot water tank maintenance can pay big dividends on your energy bill.


ORNL, General Electric collaborate on super efficient electric water heater

Technology / Energy

created Jun 05, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 2

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Electric have collaborated to finalize, test and market the first product from a major brand to meet DOE's new Energy Star criteria for electric heat pump ...


Water heaters put solar energy within reach

Technology / Energy

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Andrei Mitran of Cary says he has no desire to live "off the grid." But when choosing a replacement for his 18-year-old hot water heater, the computer programmer says he decided to look into purchasing a solar unit.


Harnessing the sun

Technology / Energy

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The American Solar Energy Society's 2009 National Solar Tour took place Oct. 3 in 3,000 communities.


Baby beetles inspire researchers to build 'mini boat' powered by surface tension (Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Inspired by the aquatic wriggling of beetle larvae, a University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that strips away paddles, sails, and motors and harnesses the energy within the water's surface. ...


Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation ...


Explosion on chip sets liquid in motion

Explosion on chip sets liquid in motion

Chemistry /

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- PhD student, Dennis van den Broek, of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a new type of miniature motor, the micro-bubble actuator. This ‘motor’, which can be used in laboratories ...


Japanese auto firm Honda Motors preview a hybrid vehicle prior to the  Tokyo Motor Show

Electric cars take on hybrids at Tokyo show

Technology / Energy

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Futuristic concept cars, plug-in hybrids, zero-emission electric vehicles and even a hydrogen-powered scooter jostled for the limelight as the Tokyo Motor Show kicked off on Wednesday.


Mobile home owners have many ways to increase energy efficiency

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Of the 413,000 housing units in Montana in 2000, about 59,000 were mobile homes. However, almost half of existing mobile homes were manufactured before 1976, when a federal housing code was passed that required them to be ...


'Fridges and washing machines liberated women': researcher

Other Sciences / Economics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The advent of modern appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators had a profound impact on 20th Century society, according to a new Université de Montréal study. Plug-in conveniences transformed women's ...



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