Category: Efficiency
How can Internet of Things contribute to cleantech?
Category: Advanced, Efficiency, Lifestyle, Lifestyle, ProfessionAuthor : Admin September 15, 2016
We are a jerk generation. Oh yeah? Yeah! Don’t agree? Then just how do you explain the following? We forget to switch things off. We run things at a maximum or a minimum, rarely at an optimum W...Read more
How do I know how much energy I can save in my building?
Category: Basic, Efficiency, Energy Audit, Green Buildings, Lifestyle, ProfessionAuthor : Admin September 3, 2016
Buildings consume almost 40% of the total electricity generated worldwide. Now, that’s a massive portion. Naturally hence, building energy conservation can take us a long way towards building a...Read more
So, are energy audits really useful?
Category: Efficiency, Energy Audit, Green Buildings, Moderate, ProfessionAuthor : Admin September 1, 2016
Most of us have heard about energy audits – a process in which your building’s energy consumption pattern in analysed to identify improvements. At the same time, only a few appear to take ...Read more
Does using smartphones drain us of our energy resources?
Category: Basic, Efficiency, Lifestyle, LifestyleAuthor : Admin August 28, 2016
With over a billion people using smartphones worldwide, one gets concerned if smartphones are draining the world of precious energy resources. Let’s do some math to check out if you should inde...Read more
Why isn’t everyone using energy efficient equipment and machinery?
Category: Basic, Efficiency, LED, ProfessionAuthor : Admin August 27, 2016
If only the world were super rational. Even the common bloke on the road knows that using energy efficiency equipment in our homes and factories could cut down energy costs by as much as 50%. But yet,...Read more
What are the best avenues to conserve energy for residences?
Category: Basic, Efficiency, Green Buildings, LED, LifestyleAuthor : Admin August 25, 2016
As the cost of energy shoots up, so will your energy bills. It is hence no wonder that hundreds of millions of residences worldwide are keen to know how to conserve energy without compromising on com...Read more
Why is the world going ga-ga about LED?
Category: Basic, Efficiency, Green Buildings, LED, Lifestyle, ProfessionAuthor : Admin August 22, 2016
From being seen as a high-cost, niche lighting technology, LEDs are suddenly springing up everywhere. The LED concept indeed is very simple – it provides the same amount of light as a convention...Read more
What is CHP (combined heat and power) in the context of sustainable energy?
Category: Advanced, CHP, Efficiency, ProfessionAuthor : Admin August 15, 2016
If you were working anywhere close to industrial boilers, you would have surely heard the term CHP , especially if you had been in the process industries that use both extensive amounts of heat and p...Read more
What role can computer scientists and software professionals play in cleantech?
Category: Agriculture, Basic, Buildings, Efficiency, ProfessionAuthor : Admin August 6, 2016
Cleantech and Infotech are coming together. Now, computer & IT professionals can contribute significantly to cleantech. Who doesn’t want to have a hand in saving the world? Fairly regularly...Read more
If I use a laptop, do I consume less energy than when I use a desktop?
Category: Basic, Efficiency, LifestyleAuthor : Admin August 1, 2016
For those who have used both a laptop and a desktop computer, there will be that intuitive feeling that a laptop consumes lesser amount of energy than does a desktop. The intuition is indeed correct. ...Read more