Health and beauty retailer is installing energy-efficient LED signage in 400 stores counting on energy and maintenance savings to yield a 1.3-year payback. GE Lighting has supplied LED-based Tetra Max signage to 400 Watsons retail stores ...
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Tony Abbott's pledge to improving road safety should be welcomed, but as the rail industry well knows, measures that get trucks off the roads will always be best option for improving road safety. It is only when the Coalition makes a ...
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Taiwan's Bureau of Energy has invited the Australian Solar Council and representatives from large-size engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms to join an investment conference in Taipei from March 19-21, 2013. The Taiwan ...
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Bioplastics supplier in Australia, Plantic Technologies is all set to supply new ‘Plantic eco Plastic’ trays to the Netherlands-based Profish Food, as part of an agreement. Plantic eco Plastic has been designed to enhance the ...
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Luis Farias has an obsession. The vice president for energy and sustainability at CEMEX, the Mexican cement company worth more than $13 billion, is "obsessed" with reducing his company s carbon footprint. For the past several years, CEMEX ...
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North Lanarkshire Council in Scotland is taking the plunge by investing in a retrofit project of its street lighting in order to help the council slash more than £228,000 annually from its electricity bill. MacLean Electrical Group ...
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The Peak District National Park Authority wants to shed light on the best sites and designs for solar panels, particularly for owners of historic buildings. The Authority, which welcomes renewable energy devices that do not harm the ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
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India’s fast-growing cement industry can reduce its carbon emissions by nearly half by the middle of the century, according to a technology roadmap issued today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Business Council ...
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Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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Yet another example of a customer being satisfied with its energy-efficient lighting comes from New Zealand, where Pegasus Engineering in Christchurch enlisted the help of Philips to design and install lighting in an expansion of its ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
At the construction site which will eventually become Berlin's new international airport, there are no dark corners as the lights of the terminal building burn 24/7, due to an inability to turn off the lights. The project has been plagued ...
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The accused: Scientists in the study didn't actually use LEDs. (Cartoon: Spike Gerrell) A misunderstanding had the art world believing LEDs were guilty of degrading masterpieces. However, the accusations were unfounded, Angeline Albert ...
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German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen has unveiled two variants of the Golf GTI model prior to their launch at the upcoming 2013 Geneva Motor Show to be held in Switzerland during 05-17 March. Both the GTI and GTI Performance ...