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Q: Is there anything I need to be cautious about when plugging in my automobile?Q: I’ve seen that there are now roof shingles that are solar panels.While a wide range of solar technologies work in Alaska and other cold climates, photovoltaic roof shingles are still too new and [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Energy Focus Articles · Energy, Renewable · Mechanical Systems · PORTAL
From npr.org on Monday, June 8, 2009:
Susan Carpenter breaks California state plumbing code three times a week. Her accomplice is her washing machine. Rinse water from washing machines usually goes into the sewer — so what if you could recycle it? That’s what Carpenter does, using it to water plants at her Southern California home.
“The [...]
Category: Mechanical Systems · Recycling · Sustainable Living
BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner April 29th, 2009, Section A3
Alaska’s energy resources amount to more than the oil and gas that have so much transformed the state during the past 40 years. One largely untapped resource is wind power. Large-scale operations, such as a growing [...]
Category: Energy Focus Articles · Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Mechanical Systems
BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner April 23rd, 2009, Section A3
“Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of [...]
Category: Energy Focus Articles · Mechanical Systems
BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner April 16th, 2009, Section A3
Boilers today offer a wide range of customized options to maximize efficiency. If your boiler has an old pilot light that stays lit all the time, you’re probably a good candidate for a replacement boiler or, [...]
Category: Energy Focus Articles · Mechanical Systems
From the New York Times on Saturday, February 14, 2009:
Wind turbines typically spin from tall towers on hills and plains. But in these green times, some companies hope smaller turbines will soon rise above a more domestic spot: homes and garages.
An Energy Ball turbine. Adam Bird for The New York Times
The rooftop turbines send the [...]
Category: Building Structure · Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Mechanical Systems · Sustainable Living
From the New York Times on Wednesday, February 11, 2009:
The modular housing industry likes to say that it has always had a few characteristics that today might be considered eco-friendly — from reduced waste to a smaller construction footprint.
“In a modular plant, recycling is huge,” says Chad Harvey, the deputy director of the Modular Building [...]
Category: Building Structure · Energy, Renewable · Mechanical Systems · Recycling · Sustainable Living
From the New York Times on Tuesday, February 3, 2009:
Wind and solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and solar [...]
Category: Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Mechanical Systems · Sustainable Living
From businessweek.com, posted on January 6, 2009 and retrieved on Friday, January 30, 2009:
When the homebuilding industry descends on Las Vegas on Jan. 20 for its annual trade show, a highlight as always will be a project called the New American Home. This model house—a new one gets built each year—serves as a showcase for [...]
Category: Building Structure · Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Mechanical Systems · Sustainable Living
From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday, January 28, 2009:
Education leaders look to be sharpening their focus on energy research, a move spearheaded by tentative plans to build a 31,000-square-foot building dedicated to energy research — everything from wind and hydrogen to coal — at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The plan is on the fast-track. [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Legislation and Policy · Mechanical Systems · Sustainable Living