Making a city or district energy smart is, first and foremost, an exercise in good planning. However, such green planning tools are still in their infancy. The trouble is that every city is different, every district unique. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 30, 2015
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A new modelling platform can create scenarios designed to show the environmental impact of retrofitted buildings. It also helps calculate the expected reductions in energy consumption and the related costs of refurbishing. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 1, 2015
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'Information and communications technologies' (ICT) use energy as well as helping to save it - more energy-efficient ICT could help make further savings and reduce CO2 emissions. An EU-funded project has developed a plug-in ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 12, 2013
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Sea and inland navigation ports and freight terminals are faced with growing energy costs and major political and societal pressure in terms of their environmental performance.
Environment
Aug 13, 2013
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The bakery industry is a large supplier of jobs and revenue, but on the other side of the coin, it is hungry for energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 6, 2017
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It's a gnawing frustration of modern office life. You're sitting quietly—too quietly—in an office or carrel, and suddenly the lights go off.
Engineering
Jun 5, 2013
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Structural materials with useful mechanical properties have applications in a diverse range of fields. A reliable way to enhance the properties of structural materials is to make them lighter without compromising their strength.
Materials Science
Jul 18, 2023
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FIT4Green – project concentrated in finding new solutions for saving energy in data centres. The project designed and implemented an energy-aware plug-in on top of the current data centres' management tools to orchestrate ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 3, 2012
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Retrofitting technology could benefit the EU economy enormously. Such activities could save up to 60% of a building's energy consumption and this would translate into direct savings in energy expenditure. But energy technology ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 4, 2015
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Gas prices now exceed 300 euros per megawatt hour—a record. The transition from fossil (natural gas, coal, oil) to renewable energy is needed and soon. But how do you get a society (and its citizens) to switch to sustainable ...
Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2022
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