AGreenLiving

APRIL 14, 2020

This system provides water for toilet-flushing to offset approximately 180,000 gallons of municipal water use per year, accounting for 88% of the building’s total non-potable water demand. The Janet Durgin Guild & Commons is also targeting WELL Education Pilot and LBC Material and Energy Petals certifications. Read more here:Â .

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AutoGrid

APRIL 22, 2021

GW renewable energy and 200 MW Demand Response capability. Resources both on the supply and demand side will work together in a complex dance to meet the electricity needs of the public, while providing reliability and increasing renewable energy.”. in Chemistry from LSU. Introduction. What will this dance look like on a daily basis?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A VRF mechanical system was installed for on-demand heating and cooling. Opened in 1946 with the motto “You Shall Teach Them Diligently,” the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School is located next to the Anshe Emet Synagogue, with which it formerly shared a small and nondescript entrance accessed from the parking lot.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

Alma Rosa Winery uses eco-friendly farming practices on its vineyards and features an array of energy-saving techniques as part of a plan to take the winery and vineyard barn off the grid. Ventilated subterranean caves that house the barrel storage spaces take advantage of the natural soil temperature to minimize mechanical cooling.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling buildings continue to rise in Connecticut despite the state’s efforts to improve energy efficiency. Activists want more resources put into switching customers over to heat pumps, which can be used for heating and cooling. Commercial building emissions were also higher.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Focusing first on converting that grey hydrogen to green creates an immediate demand — and immediate emissions reductions. An array of measures have been set out in the draft covering grid, generation and efficiency. Grey hydrogen, produced from natural gas, is used widely in refineries and chemical plants.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Heat pump benefits are no secret – they are much more energy efficient than their gas boiler alternatives and provide a much needed pathway for the decarbonisation of heating and cooling, a notoriously hard-to-abate sector. In 2021, approximately 85% of UK domestic heating was provided through networked gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Project title: Lead organisation: Project grant: EventGo – Intelligent Rail Service Demand Forecasting for Event-based Travel. This will remove the need for diesel powertrains to remain powered up or idling during dwell times, which can cause up to 20% of freight locomotive fuel consumption and emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As demand for urban housing and public spaces increases, architects and developers must prioritize reducing CO2 emissions during the design, construction, and subsequent operation phases of new builds. The vast array of benefits of going green. Heat pumps can also be used in centralized, community heating schemes.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

What many find maddening is that this relationship is pretty much always reversed in the AC motor: the stator consists of an array of coils that are sequentially energized by phase-shifting the currents flowing through each of them (via the inverter, in an EV), rather than mechanically switching from one coil to the next with a commutator.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 10, 2021

Roof gutters have been replaced with in-ground trenches, and interior compact spaces can be closed off to reduce heating and cooling demands. Water tanks and a large solar array on the farm provide both sustainable water and energy, while the slow combustion wood fireplace represents the home’s main heat source.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2019

On the upper roof, a massive solar array meets all of the home’s energy needs while the lower roof was planted with a state-of-the-art cooling sedum green roof that adds significant insulation properties to the design. The interior boasts a modern but warm living space. The interior boasts a modern but warm living space.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

But that kind of recycling is challenging to manage, since wastewater is produced in surges and because demand depends on a constant drumbeat of more drilling. Even when drilling is going strong, there’s far more wastewater than demand from the drilling industry. Still, the push to use oilfield wastewater remains strong. “I

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Charged

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Battery management systems provide the vehicle with real-time decision-making, diagnostics, and anticipatory control of every watt of power demand throughout the vehicle. Thermal management control is needed to prolong the life of the battery pack, especially in large arrays that might have up to 4,000 cells in a system.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Business Case for a Demand Response Management System, Part 1: Overview and Basic Elements. The use of Demand Response (DR) by utilities to help manage coincident peak is very common in the electric utility industry. A general rule of thumb is about 1% demand reduction per 1 degree of setback. By John Bonnin. Introduction.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 25, 2020

With a growing unease in taking public transportation, the demand for electric bikes and cars is also skyrocketing. While governmental incentives for the EV market in the United States are minimal, the private sector is jumping on board to continue the momentum and meet the new consumer demand.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 25, 2020

With a growing unease in taking public transportation, the demand for electric bikes and cars is also skyrocketing. While governmental incentives for the EV market in the United States are minimal, the private sector is jumping on board to continue the momentum and meet the new consumer demand.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hydrogen Scaling production Scaling renewable hydrogen production to industrial volumes starts with developing a supply chain that can meet global demand and deliver thousands of megawatts of electrolyzer capacity needed every year. Both partners able to meet electrolyzer demand arising from their individual portfolios of hydrogen projects.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The agrivoltaic PV system generated 1 percent more electricity on an annual basis (3 percent increase during summer months) compared to a regular PV system in the same location, due to the cooling effect of plant transpiration on the solar panels. Source: Pascaris et al.,

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

Gas stoves emit an array of air pollutants , including nitrogen oxides (nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide), carbon monoxide, and particulate matter when in use. Accurately highlighting coal’s polluting nature, the published report glossed over gas’s own pollution problems, which were an area of emerging research at the time.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states. The use of that technology to find active mines was a really cool application.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

At the same time, WeTransfer has worked with AWS and its data engineers to target emissions from data centre infrastructure, such as lights and cooling, and embrace renewable electricity, automation, and more ever more efficient data storage.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Energy storage technology is expanding rapidly and will become increasingly important for balancing demand variability on the grid, particularly as the industry sees wider adoption of electric vehicles and distributed resources. Photovoltaics aren’t the only technology that researchers aim to diversify.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Green Building Council has this definition of net-zero carbon: the "reduction in the demand for energy and materials to a level that can be met solely by sources that do not emit greenhouse gases.". You're looking at everything together, as opposed to looking at sustainability or energy efficiency initiatives in silos."

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Charged

MAY 6, 2024

The home of the future that we envision today is an intelligent home, and much of the intelligence has to do with optimizing energy consumption—shifting demand to times when energy is cheaper and/or cleaner. It is a very, very cool system, but it’s an investment. It’s a whole new system, but easier to install.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

It added that extreme heat and droughts in the coming years could further impact nuclear plants reliability by reduciung access to the water they rely on to cool down. The pressure on plants would come at the same time as demand for power increases with the roll out of more electric vehicles, heat pumps, and air conditioning.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

From there, the natural gas is moved through larger transmission pipelines to LNG export terminals where it is cooled until it liquifies and reduces in volume. And as the demand for LNG grows, so does the network of export terminals — and the potential for inadvertent radiological exposure in the United States and Europe.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There is a diverse array of WaterSense certified toilet models including the simple, ceramic TOTO Ultramax II One-Piece Toilet Set , the best low-flow TOTO Drake II 1G Two-Piece Toilet with 1.0 Prior to the 1992 Energy Policy Act, toilets used 3.5 or more gallons per flush (GPF). GPF or less. GPF for small flushes and 1.2

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2022

OEMs and battery manufacturers are looking at both immediate and long-term solutions, including bonding individual cells directly to the cooling plate. This offers reduced cooling or heating loads by the cooling plate and enables the application of lower conductivity gap fillers. However, this success is just the beginning.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. By the late 1920s, for example, the demand for home movie film and the growing need for X-ray film led Eastman Chemical to produce acetic anhydride, the base material for photographic emulsions.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. By the late 1920s, for example, the demand for home movie film and the growing need for X-ray film led Eastman Chemical to produce acetic anhydride, the base material for photographic emulsions.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

A renewable-energy engineer based in Massachusetts pointed out to me that his state needs close to ten gigawatts’ worth of electrical power to meet current demand. Every school teaches it, everybody knows who the main employers are, and sees it as cool. Heat pumps, despite their name, also cool homes.) units up every summer.”

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