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Lifecycle Maintenance: Prolonging Truck Efficiency Through Comprehensive Care

The Environmental Blog

These comprehensive check-ins assess every aspect of a vehicle’s function from brakes to electrical systems. Monitoring tread depth is also essential. Timely oil changes act as the lifeblood for engines, helping power big rigs down the highway. Detailed reports also let companies monitor trends over time.

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Why Empty Office Buildings Still Consume Lots of Power During a Global Pandemic

GreenTechMedia

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? The result has been significant drops in electricity demand in big commercial centers like New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area , and forecasts that commercial energy usage across the country will decline by 4.7

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Smart grid: IoT predictive maintenance guide

Smart Energy International

In the rapidly evolving energy sector, smart grid IoT applications are driving a profound transformation towards a greener and more sustainable future. With advanced technologies integrating renewable energy sources, the approach to energy distribution is undergoing a revolutionary shift.

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

Available in two models (pump or diffusion) and battery powered with onboard datalogging, the YESAIR instruments have been designed for intermittent or continuous indoor air quality monitoring of temperature, RH, particulates and up to 5 gases. These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South to burn them overseas in its power plants. Collectively, the region’s wood pellet industry exports more than 7.4

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WHO values are insufficient, say developers of European map of aerosol pollution

Envirotec Magazine

These are used by epidemiologists to determine the aerosol sources that are most detrimental to human health.” In contrast to power plants, which have strict regulations and filter systems, the regulations regarding residential heating emissions are not sufficiently stringent for most European countries, including Switzerland.”

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Urban wood burning is soaring, with 18,000 complaints but only 3 fines

Envirotec Magazine

Campaigners have written to the Health Secretary to call for wood stoves to be phased out by 2027. When our neighbours light their log burners our home is enveloped in toxic smoke. When our neighbours light their log burners our home is enveloped in toxic smoke. About 200,000 new wood burning stoves are bought every year.

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