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Elisa Wood's Blog – August 2011 Archive (4)
How much money can new lighting save your business?
Am I average?
That’s the question that often hits me when someone quotes an ‘average’ statistic. The ‘average’ business or household seems almost mythological. Few of us fall right on that point on the line.
The same is true when it comes to often quoted energy efficiency savings statistics. For example, the US Environmental Protection Agency says that replacing one old-fashion incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light will save on average $69 over the product’s…
ContinueAdded by Elisa Wood on August 26, 2011 at 8:23am — No Comments
Desert Year: Robust Economy and Lessons of the Sonoran Agave
by Skip Laitner
Guest Blogger, Energy Efficiency Markets
Reposted from Real Climate Economics
John ‘Skip” Laitner is an economist, enjoying a desert year while on research sabbatical from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Skip is discovering some surprising insights from his time in the desert that can…
ContinueAdded by Elisa Wood on August 19, 2011 at 9:11am — No Comments
Home energy devices: Can we bewilder Edison?
Why do so many energy insiders insist that home energy automation will fail? Many whom I respect say the typical householder will never take the time to fiddle with smart gadgets that reduce energy costs.
Their skepticism, however, just elicits a verbal shrug from Peter Porteous, CEO of…
ContinueAdded by Elisa Wood on August 12, 2011 at 12:13am — 4 Comments
What if the light bulb produced more than light?
Talk about a light bulb moment.
A professor of engineering at Edinburgh University recently demonstrated for the first time to a wide audience his technology that uses common every day lights to transmit data.
Harald Haas streamed a video through a desk lamp at Ted Global 2011at Scotland’s Edinburgh International Conference Center in July.
If commercialized, the technology not only creates a vast new application for light, but also dramatically expands our now limited…
ContinueAdded by Elisa Wood on August 4, 2011 at 5:42pm — 1 Comment
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