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Energy Conservation - Inventions, Research, Innovations,
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- The Interflush
Water-saving Product - Varyflush Ltd makes the Interflush™: A kit
which fits on top of your WC siphon and connects to the front mounted
flush handle. Only flushes when the handle is held down, releasing the
handle stops the flush (when pan is clear). Only uses just what water is
needed. Any less and the toilet would need flushing again. That is why
nothing can flush a toilet with less water. Read more from the
Interflush, UK web site
- Japan's energy conservation obsession - Japan beats oil
costs with efficiency - from the International Herald Tribune, By Martin
Fackler - January, 2007 - Energy-efficient appliances abound in the many
locations of Japan; In some homes, there are room heaters with a sensor
directing heat toward only humans, or "energy navigators" that
track households' energy use. Japan's higher energy prices have created
strong domestic demand for energy-saving products of all sorts, spurring
the invention and development of things like low-energy washing machines
and televisions and high- mileage cars and hybrid vehicles. Japanese
factories have learned how to cut their energy use to become among the
most efficient in the world. Read more from this IHT
article.
- Energy
Conservation Ideas for the Home - Some interesting and cool ideas
discussed: Ideas for Door Insulation, Water Saving Tips, Save Energy
With Trees, Saving Energy Washing Dishes, Turn Off The Lights Contest
For The Kids, Vacuum Refrigerator Coils, Energy Checklist For Homes, Fix
Dripping Faucets, Get An Energy Audit, Turn Off Ventilation Fans, Keep
Fireplace Dampers Closed, Saving Water With Showers Instead Of Baths,
Drafty Bedroom Window, Insulate Your Water Heater, Energy Saving Tips
for the Freezer and Fridge, Energy Efficient House, Tips for Buying a
New Refrigerator , 5 Energy Savings To Keep You Cool, Air Pockets Reduce
Heating Bills, Lowering Your Water Heater Temperature, Money Saving
Refrigerator Tips.
- New materials for energy conservation and energy
transformation - At the suggestion of the Committee for the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety, a study was carried out on the
status, prospects, opportunities and risks of the development and use of
new materials for energy conservation and transformation. It was decided
to focus on high temperature materials for gas turbines, materials for
solar cells and superconducting materials. As the manufacturing
technologies (available or to be developed) have significant and
sometimes even decisive importance, consideration was not limited to the
materials to be used. The present study looks in depth at three selected
areas of application for new materials, where some of the areas already
have individual applications and some are still in the research stage:
(a) high temperature materials for gas turbines, (b) materials for
photovoltaics & (c) superconducting materials for energy
applications. A report
from TAB Germany
- Nanofluids open way to multiple applications including
massive energy savings in central heating systems, safer surgery and
smaller computers - Huge benefits are expected from this relatively new
nanotechnology application. By suspending in water or other liquids
nanoparticles made of gold or other materials such as carbon, copper or copper
oxide, engineers have created 'nanofluids' which can transfer heat up to
400% faster than other liquids. Read more from this Smart
Economy blog article
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- Industrial Nanotech Announces Technology Breakthrough
With Completion of New Insulation Material - Nov, 2006 - Industrial
Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), a Company that specializes in
nanotechnology innovation and product development announced the
development of Nansulate Shield, a new insulation material designed
specifically for the construction industry. This new product is the
first of Industrial Nanotech's that is not a coating, however utilizes
the same core nanotechnology as the Nansulate line of thermal insulation
and protective coatings. Nansulate Shield is a thin super insulation
that has an R-Value many times higher than the current best building
insulation available. This new product can easily be incorporated into
current construction methods and building codes. See original press
release here
(PDF)
- High-tech equipment is a prodigious user of energy, but
now an innovative program is underway in the Bay Area to help alleviate
that problem. Over 20 companies, including Sun Microsystems, are
donating equipment to demonstrate that servers can operate on D.C. power
more efficiently than A.C. Early research indicates the savings could be
in the millions a year for a large server farm - a June 2006 report, see
full
article @ Go.com
- Advanced Energy Conservation Technologies Utilizing
Micro/NanoScale Phenomena - Akira Yabe - Research Center for
Advanced Manufacturing on Nano-scale Science and Engineering, National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki,
Japan. Abstract:
- The necessity and trends of advanced energy
conservation technologies utilizing waste heat from factories was
investigated from micro/nanoscale viewpoints and systematic viewpoints.
Some challenges of establishing broad area energy utilization network
system were explained and consequently the necessity of establishing
important technical seeds have been shown, which were seriously
requested to realize the technical breakthrough for satisfying
important technical needs.
- Micro/Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Energy
Conservation Technologies The following five topics have been
demonstrated as the typical advanced energy conservation technologies
utilizing micro/nanoscale phenomena.
- Ice Slurry - The ice slurry has been realized by use
of AFP(Anti-freeze protein) contained in the blood of the flounder
lived in the Arctic ocean. The mechanism of the adsorption of the
hydrophilic side of AFP to the hydrogen bond on the determined ice
crystal surface with the same hydrogen bond interval of 2nm has been
cleared by the observation utilizing STM(scanning tunnel microscope).
This mechanism was simulated by the similar structure of artificial
organic compounds, such as silane coupling agents or poly-vinyl
alcohol. This ice slurry would be useful for providing the cold energy
for air-conditioning system in the building by the advantage of latent
heat.
- Drag Reduction by Microscale Concave-Convex Surfaces -
The drag reduction of water laminar flow has been established by use
of fabricated surfaces bu use of micro-machine techniques and MEMS,
which have concave-convex structure of micrometer scale. The mechanism
would be the equivalent boundary slip due to the interface between
liquid and the gas absorbed on the concave structure of the fabricated
surface. This would be useful for the drag reduction of pumps.
- Boiling Heat Transfer Mechanism and Enhancement Techniques
- The microscale pressure gauge has been realized by MEMS techniques
to measure the pressure variation under the bubble. The boiling
mechanism for the burnout heat flux has successfully cleared to create
the pool boiling heat flux model.
- Smart Control of Turbulent Heat Transfer - The
addition of some kinds of surfactant has been useful for the drag
reduction of water turbulent flow with about 80% by creating the
rod-like micelles of nanometer size diameter. These rod-like micelles
would behave like the rubber strings to maintain the large shear
stress near the wall. These micelles would be recovered soon after the
dissolution inside of the pump by the electrostatic recombination.
- Nanoscale challenges for Energy Conservation
Technologies - The nanoscale challenges of thin film thermo-electric
cooling and nanoscale surface phenomena have been conducted for
advance energy conservation technologies.
- Original link
here (PDF)
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