Archive for 'New Technologies'
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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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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Virus Is The Remedy For Industrial Chemistry
Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by Ross.
Industrial chemistry has long been the epicentre of energy efficiency breakthroughs. With large-scale chemical manufacturing processes sometimes requiring thousands of atmospheres of pressure and tens of thousands of degrees of heat, the search for more effective catalysts, cheaper substrates and alternative synthetic pathways has dominated a century of achievement in chemistry.
Now a team of [...]
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The Low-Carbon Patent Land-grab: Bad News For Technology Transfer?
Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by Ross.
Low-carbon technology represents the only way that global carbon emissions can be brought under control whilst allowing the developing world to attain lifestyle equity with developed countries. Record numbers of green patents are being granted worldwide for low-carbon technologies, but is that good for the fight against climate change or simply a corporate land-grab over [...]
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Wind Power Wars: What Hope Now For Technology Transfers
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Ross.
Hopes of top corporations sharing patent information with developing countries in climate change technology transfers seem more remote this week after a war has broken out in the US wind power market between two of the world’s biggest engineering brands.
Two years ago General Electric (GE) filed two patent infringement claims against Mitsubishi in the US, [...]
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Household Flourescent Lights Finally Catch Up With Commercial Lighting
Posted on 26. May, 2010 by Ross.
Commercial light fittings which use energy-saving fluorescent lighting, such as the intelligent Somar Eluma warehouse lighting system, have been offering businesses massive savings on their lighting bills for years now, through combinations of efficient lamps, high-quality reflectors, occupancy sensing and daylight harvesting. Until now, however, household compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) have struggled to afford the [...]
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Artificial Life, Biofuels & Climate Change: The ABC Of Synthetic Biology
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Ross.
Last week the mainstream media was set alight by the news that scientists had created the world’s first artificial bacteria, leading to excitement at the applications of the science, accusations of playing God and bewilderment at the speed of new advances in synthetic biology.
Whilst ten years ago such ground-breaking advances in biochemistry were all focused [...]
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LED Lighting Still Not Ready For Commercial Buildings
Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Ross.
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will remain too expensive for mainstream commercial applications for the next decade compared to other energy-efficient lighting systems like Somar Eluma.
Despite grand predictions of LED lighting taking over the world, and of rapidly falling costs in the manufacture of these semiconductor-based low-carbon lights, they will remain too expensive to effectively compete against [...]
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Climate Change Technology Transfers Will Explode With New Green Patent Database
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Ross.
Climate change is a global problem which needs global solutions, but the myriad of green patents which could help developing countries in their attempts to control emissions and utilise renewable energy are littered across multiple databease and are increasing in number exponentially, making tracking down rights holders an impossible task.
Until now.
The European Patent Office (EPO) [...]
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