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Buyer’s Guide for Sustainable Home Products

Green Business Bureau

Using remote sensors to detect temperature imbalances, smart thermostats can achieve an even heating and cooling throughout your home as well as turn off the HVAC when you’re away, saving on energy and money. Investing in a solar-powered AC unit or whole system can offset these emissions. GREE DC inverter HVAC systems.

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

Demand in most regions peaks after dark, as everyone gets home from work, right when solar power is waning. It’s a chaotic situation for utilities that are trying to keep a giant power grid in balance. Massive battery storage will help solve the problem but getting to total grid scale is some ways off.