News tagged with energy consumption
1930s home goes green
Aug 05, 2009 |
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A 1930s house built in 2008 is about to undergo the first of three energy efficiency upgrades which will ultimately convert an energy inefficient house into a zero carbon home designed to meet the Government's 2016 CO2 targets fo ...
General Electric Plans Net-Zero Energy Home by 2015
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using solar panels, wind turbines, appliance monitoring, and on-site energy storage, General Electric has a plan to enable homeowners to cut their annual energy consumption (from the electric ...
Carbon sequestration may enhance energy production, researchers say
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions continually rise in the United States, unconventional natural gas sources coupled with advances in carbon sequestration may be the solution, ...
Artificial noise saves energy
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Against the background of climate change, how can xDSL systems function more energy-efficiently and cost-effectively? Scientists are providing a solution combining existing methods which network providers ...
Mars mission could ease Earth's energy supply crisis
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars - Europe’s next robotic mission to Mars in 2016 - but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018, could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue ...
Policies for renewable energy boost economy and jobs
Jun 04, 2009 |
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The study which was coordinated by Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Inno-vation Research ISI shows that, by improving current policies the target of 20% RES in final energy consumption in 2020 can be achieved, which will ...
Global emissions to leap 39 percent by 2030: US
May 27, 2009 |
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Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise 39 percent by 2030 as energy consumption surges in the developing world, notably in Asian giants China and India, the United States warned on Wednesday.
Energy efficiency standards for appliances should include upstream costs
May 27, 2009 |
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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, ...
Toward cheap underwater sensor nets
May 27, 2009 |
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UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop ...
A bright future with solar lanterns for India's poor
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security, according to Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University, ...
Nanofarming technology harvest biofuel oils without harming algae
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Algae is widely touted as the next best source for fueling the world's energy needs. But one of the greatest challenges in creating biofuels from algae is that when you extract the oil from the algae, it kills ...
PowerNap plan could save 75 percent of data center energy (Podcast)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume.
Google's PowerMeter Will Help Reduce Energy Consumption (Video)
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 10, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- Google.org has announced "PowerMeter", a platform that will help users track their home electricity usage in real-time on their home computer. This platform will receive data from "smart meters" ...
New tool gets handle on cropland CO2 emissions
Feb 09, 2009 |
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For the first time, farmers have data that tracks at the county level on-site and off-site energy use and carbon dioxide emissions associated with growing crops in the United States.
Hotspots in developing countries will fuel demand for global energy
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Developing countries use proportionally less energy than industrialized nations, but this could soon change.
