With Superstorm Sandy stirring up talk of climate change, here's one encouraging statistic: Americans used less energy in 2011 than in the previous year, according to the latest energy flow chart from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
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Ever since it erected its first lamp posts in the late 1890s,with electricity generated from its own municipal power plant a decade later,street lighting in the City of Pasadena,California,has undergone many changes in the ensuing decades ...
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Some of the weirdest gadgets at the International CES show are designed to solve problems you never knew you had. Are you eating too fast? A digital fork will let you know. Is your toddler having trouble sitting still on the potty? Let the ...
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The lighting on the Eiffel tower is now swiched off at 1.00 am Paris's standing as the City of Light may come under threat later this year if a decision to switch off the French capital's lights gets the go-ahead. The French ...
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Members of the glass and window industry gathered in Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, for the Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council Symposium, Fenestration: A World of Change. The event, hosted by the National Institute of Building ...
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China-based Formosa Polypropylene (FPC) Ningbo has collaborated with Milliken to develop a new grade of polypropylene (PP) 5200XT using Milliken's Millad NX 8000K clarifier. Produced at FPC Ningbo's facility in China, the 5200XT grade ...
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Reuters reported that China will review on grid power tariffs annually and adjust them if thermal coal prices fluctuate by more than 5% a year. Government marking a small step towards broader market-oriented energy pricing reforms. ...
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The manufacture of glass makes relatively small demands on the environment compared with many other materials. It uses mainly readily available minerals to produce environmentally friendly products which have many beneficial uses from ...
Energy.gov reported that senior Advisor in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Mr Gil Sperling joined local officials and company representatives for the ribbon cutting ceremony and tour of the ArcelorMittal steel ...
Material ConneXion named Netherlands-based DyeCoo Textile Systems as the winner of the third annual MEDIUM Award for Material of the Year. Material ConneXion has cited the company for the development of revolutionary commercial dyeing ...
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Sentry Electric,one of North America's most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor luminaires,proudly announces that BUILDINGS Magazine has selected the company's Battery Park luminaire with CosmoPolis Lamp/Ballast ...
Computerworld - Security consulting firm SecureState today released a new open source hacking tool that it claims will let security researchers and penetration testers verify the security of electric utility smart meters being installed in ...
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metering a greater focus at the Department of Energy on deployment of existing manufacturing technologies; improved energy efficiency within federal facilities; and a study on barriers to industrial deployment of electric motors, demand ...
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ArcelorMittal unveiled a new energy recovery and reuse boiler at its East Chicago facility on Monday which recycles waste gas generated through the ironmaking process and uses it to generate electricity to help power the plant. The US ...
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Stephanie Butta, a fifth-semester student majoring in Fashion Merchandising Management at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), has been named a recipient of the first SUNY Emerging Leader Awards. The news was announced by State ...
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