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Local climate extremes demand concerted positive action
Black Saturday 7 February 2009: Melbourne’s temperature reached 46.4 degrees (116.5 deg F), fanned by strong hot winds 400 bushfires across the state killed over 170 people and destroyed 700 homes. And the dams supplying the state with water are ...
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Is Plasma Light a serious competitor to LED light?
Controlled Plasma (CP) lighting technology is the latest of a number of emerging innovative lighting technologies that inadvertently help reduce GHG emission through energy efficiency. In fact its Melbourne inventor Graeme Huon (formerly and acoustics engineer) asserted that ...
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Biochar: A new way of capturing carbon
As part of an international effort to combat climate change, researchers worldwide are exploring new ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One such method is Biochar, which takes organaic matter and burns it in a pyrolysis oven with no oxygen ...
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The Challenges of Task Lights
Task lights achieve reductions of up to 75% in office lighting energy consumption and CO2 production! They give us control over the lighting in our environment, and allow us to switch them off when away from our desks.
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Reflect on Fluoros
WME The Environmet Business Magazine had this article "Reflect on Fluoros" in their Dec 2008 issue. The article started bt stating that "While the EPOCH's promise of spending nothing to get better power at a lower cost provides a very ...
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How good is T5 fluorescent lighting?
T5 fluorescent lighting has been around for a while now, but is not yet widely used in the manufacturing or warehouse sectors. Paul Smith has compared T5s with metal halide, and ...
