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Google Drops Powermeter; Future Not Bright For Android@Home
Posted on 08. Jun, 2011 by Ross.
Two years after announcing the launch of Powermeter - touted as the Google Analytics of home energy use - Google have quietly and surprisingly dumped development of the Powermeter API.
At a time when Google is making some big investments in renewable energy (most recently in windfarms), home automation and innovative methods to green their data [...]
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My Return On Investment Case with Philips LED Lighting
Posted on 19. May, 2011 by Ross.
The New York Times announced the arrival of a new LED light bulb from Philips this week, capable of deliver enough light to replace a 75W light bulb (until now LED lights had only been able to emit enough light to replace a 60W bulb). The EnduraLED A21 is expected to cost $40, last 25,000 [...]
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When Do Greens NOT Want A Carbon Floor Price? When Nuclear Gets The Benefits
Posted on 16. May, 2011 by Ross.
The initial headlines were all about political wranglings and conflicts, but the latest UK agreement to reduce carbon emissions has exposed just how fragmented the environmental movement has become.
The Liberal Democrats saw less discord amongst party members for forming a coalition with the hated Conservatives than would have been expected last year. Even the diabolical [...]
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5 Ways In Which Evil Supervillains Go Green
Posted on 09. Nov, 2010 by Ross.
Evil supervillains have more reasons than most to go green. Typically pursuing goals of world domination of astronomical propotions, your average evil genius needs to squeeze every source of available power to fuel their space-satellite-laserbeam-cannons-of-doom, their legions-of-the-apocalypse-mutant-super-armies and - in the case of the insane genius of Pinky and the Brain - their massive-clothes-dryer-to-generate-global-static-cling-to-use-the-power-of-static-electricity-to-take-over-the-world.
Such nefarious [...]
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CFL Life-Cycle Declared Greenest, Ignores LED Lighting
Posted on 26. Oct, 2010 by Ross.
A recent Swiss study claiming CFL light bulbs to be the greenest form of generic household lighting has failed to include LED lighting in the comparison, and despite attempting to placate fears over mercury content also falls short of a convincing defence.
As shown by this website recently based on current market prices, LED lighting is [...]
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The Financial Case For CFL and LED Light Bulbs
Posted on 24. Aug, 2010 by Ross.
Manufacturers of LED lighting are quick to trumpet the benefits of their lights versus incandescent bulbs, but are usually careful to avoid similar comparisons with compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) bulbs which are similarly energy efficient. Here we do just that: contrasting the financial case for CFL and LED light bulbs from the same manufacturer.
We’ve chosen [...]
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Climate Change Crop Yields Will Lead To Starvation
Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Ross.
With all-time record temperatures being set worldwide this year, and the trend likely to continue as the world warms under climate change, the question of how such temperatures will affect us all is an obvious one.
The current headlines coming out of Russia are similar to those generated by the 2003’s European heatwave - the deadliest [...]
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Record Temperatures And Record Energy Use
Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by Ross.
17 countries around the world have recorded all-time national record temperatures this summer, giving people from different corners of the world more of an idea of what to expect from future climate change.
With the Russian 37
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The Ugly Face Of Climate Compensation: Saudi Arabia And Equador
Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by Ross.
One of the key negotiating points in the continuing grudge match of international climate change diplomacy surrounds the demands of developing countries for western nations to foot the bill both for climate adaptation and low-carbon growth.
The argument generally goes like this: developed nations have caused climate change by polluting the atmosphere in their quest for [...]
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Endangered Species vs Climate Change: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by Ross.
Think that an adorable doe-eyed animal will help you to save the world? Think twice before relying on it to bring about change (unless it happens to have super powers and similarly noble instincts!)
Environmentalists have always looked to warn of the dangers of climate change through the eyes of a cuddly mammal whose life is [...]
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Ocean Acidification Occuring Too Fast For Adaptation
Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by Ross.
Firstly, some good news. Ocean acidification, the evil twin of climate change, has happened in the past and creatures of the period adapted their physiologies to survive.
The bad news is that the current rate of ocean acidification far outstrips what has gone before, making generational adaption to the current rising oceanic pH far more unlikely [...]
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