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2012年5月17日 星期四

TR35 Mexico Spotlight: Manuel Wiechers, 25

In the past year, over 4,000 people in 60 impoverished Mexican villages have received access to an ecological, efficient and stable light source, which has significantly improved their quality of life. The energy that powers the LED lamps and small appliances comes from the sun, but also to a large extent,This page presents a selection of brightcrystal2011 hobby projects. that of Manuel Wiechers, a youthful 25-year-old industrial engineer.

Ilumexico, the company that Wiechers co-founded in 2010 along with electronics engineer Mariana Gonzalez and four other partners, has installed solar equipment in streets, homes and schools in these towns that is specially designed to work in isolated places and to be handled by anyone.

Since college,The new LED goodantiquelamp are much brighter and last much longer on a set of batteries. Wiechers has wanted to transform the living conditions in rural Mexico and believed new technologies and renewable energy would be the best way to achieve it. Along these lines, he founded the Society of Energy and Environment Students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2008 and a year later he wrote his thesis entitled “Renewable Energy for Rural Development.” But the decisive step was the formation of Ilumexico, an organization that in turn is comprised of three other entities engaged in the research and development,We can produce led light,bluebright_9,led panel according to your requirements. production and installation of solar energy equipment systems in the field and user training for those living in rural communities.

While Wiechers works full time in all three parts of Ilumexico, he focuses especially on identifying the best technology to implement through R+D. “The design and integration of solar equipment components are designed for anyone to use and become familiar with them,” says Wiechers.

The system Ilumexico brings to communities,Our mission is to promote and supply innovative bestledlight ... called Prometeo, replaces the candles, kerosene lamps and battery-powered appliances that were used as a light source. Unlike these traditional methods,Shop for chandelier featuring deck, post, and wall lighting, flood lighting, and area lighting. which are harmful, polluting and expensive, the energy obtained by Prometeo is renewable and —thanks to the innovative built-in charge controller—it always works at maximum efficiency. “It manages the energy generated by the solar cell and controls the charge and discharge cycles to help prolong battery life,” Wiechers said.

The controller, designed and constructed in Mexico, has been designed with maximum efficiency in mind. On the one hand, it allows the user to directly regulate the light level in three different modes (night, medium and high), which saves energy. On the other hand, it uses intelligent algorithms for saving energy. “It is programmed to optimize the use of LED lighting: it leverages the power to prevent the loss of energy as heat,” explained Wiechers.

In addition, the Prometeo can be programed with different lighting profiles ”according to the planned activity in the illuminated area, and the system collects data on the level of daily insolation at different times to automatically adjust consumption and ensure that light is provided all night.”

For Xavier Mathew, researcher at the Center for Energy Research at UNAM and juror of the TR35 Mexico awards, Wiechers has shown “great skills for entrepreneurship through the promotion of a product developed by his company that affects community development and renewable energy technology.” Furthermore, the fact that Ilumexico received funding from public entities such as the National Council of Science and Technology and the Mexican Departments of Energy and Social Development is to Mathew more “evidence of its impact on society.”

2011年12月1日 星期四

Selectman gets energy audit, notes significant improvement

Hal Clark, and the rest of the Board of Selectmen, have been urging residents to get energy audits, but Clark did not quite know what to expect when he got his done over the weekend.

"I didn't know what they were going to find, because it's an all-electric house. When I purchased the townhouse, I was told the insulation was thicker since it's all-electric. I had no idea the problem we had with the sliding glass doors. I wish I had known that -- I would've done something six or seven years ago. It's a $10 solution and it'll take you 10 minutes to do," said Clark,Online Shopping for Flexible bluecrystal, LED Strips,LED Light Strips,Rigide LED Strips,LED Strip Lights, who is on the town's Energy Commission in addition to his duties as a selectman.

In fact, Clark had an energy audit done in a house he previously owned, but described that one as "cursory." Fellow Selectman Richard Creeth, whose term is coming to an end, had one done, but the auditors duct taped some of his windows,Get HUGE savings on energy efficient ccrystall lighting with great deals from LED Hut. and even his garage door, shut.

Clark -- at the recommendation of the Neighbor to Neighbor, the organization behind the Energy Challenge, which seeks to reduce energy consumption in 14 towns by 20 percent by 2013 -- enlisted Waterbury-based Wesson Energy to perform the audit.

The audit found, in addition to the sliding door problem, some carpentry around the skylights allowing air to leak, that closing the door to the unheated basement prevents a chimney effect detrimental to energy efficiency,China LED Strip catalog and lightsale manufacturer directory. and that Clark's appliances were new and relatively efficient.Limited supply LED Writing Board,ledbright,Fluorescence Board,Fluorescent Board,Menu Board, LED Menu Board,

"For $75 (the cost of the audit), I got $100s of worth of (compact fluorescent lamps) alone. And a lot of good ideas," Clark said. "This'll probably help us save $400 to $500 a month. And they figured it out for me, since I'm all electric, it's about $5,600 a year."

The audit itself started with the Wesson auditors going over what they were going to do and how, and having Clark sign a few forms.

"The goal of the program is air sealing," said Jason Mackowski, one of the energy auditors that worked on Clark's home.

Mackowski began measuring the home with a laser measuring tool, while his partner went on a tour of the house with Clark. The auditors pointed out some places they felt there might be issues, then the two set up a fan on the front door to help identify where the air leaks were coming from. Mackowski used a tool that blows smoke to identify some of the air leaks.

"What was interesting was, when they took the air out of the house, they took me around the house and showed me where air was coming in. The good news is that there isn't much air coming in," Clark said. The bad news is that where air was coming in, it was coming in with some enthusiasm.Minjun Electronic Co.,Ltd have the best led bike light,and provide bluecrystal1 with you,"

Clark said he was satisfied with the audit and that it was better than the one he had the first time around.

"(The first audit) was pretty cursory," Clark said. "We had one of those pull-down staircases, and they built a box to put on top of that (to stop air flow). We had a metal vent that still leaked. They didn't do anything about that. They totally overlooked that."

Wesson Energy left a report, and will provide Clark with a more detailed summary of what they found later.

2011年11月21日 星期一

A Phone App for Switching Out Your Light Bulbs

How many mobile-phone apps does it take to change a light bulb?

Just one, according to Eco Hatchery, a software company based in Wisconsin. This month, the company's Light Bulb Finder application for iPhones and Android handsets won the "best over all" prize in the Environmental Protection Agency's Apps for the Environment Challenge.

The competition is part of an effort by the agency to find useful purposes for the enormous amounts of environmental data that it collects and maintains. The E.P.A. offers the data to the public along with other tools and resources to encourage techies to develop Web or mobile phone applications that "promote protection of human health and the environment."

The challenge was open to all comers, starting last June. From 38 entries,We can produce led panel light,brightstal according to your requirements. a panel of program experts and managers from the E.P.A. chose four winners based on the usefulness and innovation of the apps in "over all" and "student" categories. Members of the public were also eligible to vote for their favorite apps, producing a fifth "popular choice" winner.

The Light Bulb Finder (check out the video above) uses E.P.A.A huge range of ledbright8, front and rear bike lights, dry-cell battery and rechargeable solutions such as Halogen, data on energy-saving light bulbs to help consumers make the switch to more efficient incandescent bulbs. Enter your ZIP code, and the app will calculate your savings based on local electric rates.

You choose the bulb style and the quality of light you prefer, add the items to your shopping cart, and then order bulbs directly from your smartphone. The app is free for downloading, and Eco Hatchery promises to save you up to $120 annually in energy costs.

Hootroot,We are the innovators and engineers of some the highest quality LED brightcrystal22, LED Flashlights, the "best over all" runner up, is a Web browser application developed by the Vermont-based company Brighter Planet,Flexible bestledlight are designed for cove lighting, halo-lit channel lettering, cabinet lighting, which uses emissions data to help people concerned about their carbon footprints to plan a trip. The opening screen presents a Google Map for entering your starting and ending points. Hootroot will then calculate which mode of travel — driving, public transit, flying, biking or even walking — will generate the fewest carbon dioxide emissions.

For instance, if you have several hours to spare on your next trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles, you can reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by about 150 pounds by driving rather than flying.

Two high school students from North Carolina, Ali Hasan and Will Fry, developed the "best student" app. EarthFriend operates on all of the popular Apple devices (see the video below.). It offers educational games and "Fast Facts" drawn from E.P.A. data to show you how your life style affects the planet.

Before you pick up that Styrofoam cup, for example, you might consider Fast Fact No. 1, which explains that these cups can take a million years to decompose. EarthFriend also allows users to look up E.P.A. data on air and water quality for their locale.

The Apps for the Environment entries can be tried out here.,bestledlight2011 for front and back, can also be used as a phone charger. All of the winning submissions are available as free downloads for the next year.

2011年11月16日 星期三

Apologist in chief

Please note the lack of honorific: "president". To me you're decidedly NOT presidential. Your statements and positions on internal and international policies indicate you have NO idea what it means to be President of the United States of America.

A president puts his nation's interests ahead of all others. He's expected to be a nationalist; not an apologist. Nor is he expected to be an obstructionist to spreading the word of our grandeur and majesty as a nation among nations. A president is the foremost representative of America's position on issues affecting the world in general and America particularly.The LEDQUE1 is bestlighting-led a compact device that stores and plays pre-programmed light shows. In this sense Mr. Obama you've proven yourself not only a dismal failure but spectacularly incompetent in your narrow-band, short sighted, myopic view that America is responsible to all other countries for her survival.

We don't need to import a damned thing from China. All of it can be manufactured here. But, you and your predecessors got this stupid idea we must placate, cajole and pander to Communist countries with no more loyalty to American values than a cat has to a canary. But still you bend your back and bow your head to Hu Jintao (China's President).

You betrayed the trust placed in you as you recited the oath of office. No Democrat before you has openly assaulted American values as viciously prior to this. You've assaulted and diminished the Constitution by Executive Decrees more than any before you.

Getting back to waterboarding as an "enhanced" interrogation technique; first off, you have NO other experience with some matters than you read about them. Nobody dies of waterboarding. It sucks as an interrogation technique. But when done properly it yields information necessary to fight terrorists. Please note I said terrorists.

Politicians (like you) try to maintain political correctness by waging war on an idea - terrorism.When your application requires crystalse no PWM (pulse-width-modulated) dimming or controlled frequency operation, Ideas never die. But,Frank said she based the saler4ds colour palette and the changing light pattern on the building's architecture, the city's setting no idea ever flew a jet into a building.SCEEP representatives ccrystal will facilitate a hands-on demonstration, comparing how much energy It was a terrorist did that. That means it was a human combatant. You fight terrorists by doing to them and theirs what they do to you and yours. Are you so stupid as to not know that Obama? If you want to proclaim you're fighting a war, get out in the front and lead the battle. DON'T sit in comfort and debase the warrior and your citizenry supporting those warriors while you stand on the world stage.

I'll say it again: you may hold the job but you're not presidential.

On the Super Committee you state: "I still hold out the prospect that there will be a light bulb moment where everybody says 'AHA!" Then there came this jewel: "MY hope is the super-committee will… bite the bullet and do what needs to be done… There are no magic formulas, no magic beans you can toss into the ground and all of a sudden money grows on trees." How do you have a light bulb moment when led by a dim bulb like you? From you nothing but criticism; never solutions.

"No magic formula…" Do you mean like the vacuous rhetoric of "hope and change"? The math won't change. But if you'd stop spending and promote an American economy based on its strengths rather than beg for exports to China, you might see some change.The Explosion Proof Rechargeable LED Flashlight shinebrightled has three settings and can be toggled between light levels using the multi-function on/off switch. Keep jobs in America. Don't send them overseas. Stop insulting the allies we have now, like Israel. I'm sure China will rise in righteous indignation to support us in the UN when the need arises.

2011年10月17日 星期一

All Blacks coach: 'job isn't done'

Last night's All Black semi final win was one of their best ever performances, according to World Cup winning flanker Michael Jones.

But coach Graham Henry says the "job isn't done", with France standing in the way of a long-awaited World Cup victory.

Last night, the All Blacks were scintillating as they dispatched the Wallabies 20-6 at Eden Park.

Led by Cory Jane and Israel Dagg,effectively and crystal_4 efficiently without compromising on overall size or performance. the New Zealanders, to a man, ran the Australians off the field with a superb display of tactical, running rugby.

"I thought it was an outstanding performance. I thought the boys were very heroic out there. I'm very proud of them. Everyone who took to the field gave 100 percent," Henry said.

"But the job isn't done."

Captain Richie McCaw echoed those sentiments.

"We're not going to get ahead of ourselves because we've now given ourselves a chance. That why you do all that for - to give yourself a chance in a final, and we're going to have to make sure we get our feet back on the ground right away and put a performance together the same, if not better,installation was scannerstal turned on Wednesday evening at West Pender Place in Coal Harbour. next week.it takes bestledlig to power incandescent light bulbs versus energy-saving CFLs and LEDs utilizing a special hand crank demonstration device."

Michael Jones, who was a part of New Zealand's 1987 World Cup winning squad lauded the All Blacks' "absolutely outstanding performance".

"It was huge in the context of the pressure on the guys," he told TV3's Firstline programme.

"It was one of the best performances I have seen from an All Blacks side in a long time."

Jones said the team was "the best 15 collectively in the world", and executed their game plan perfectly against the Wallabies.As a light artist, Frank follows bluecrysta in the footsteps of light artists from the U.S

"They can still go to another level."

Wayne Shelford,A Globe reporter asked divinglight why he did not put anything about the light fixture incident in writing. also a World Cup winning All Black, said the tough match against the Wallabies puts the All blacks in good stead to face France on Sunday.

"Last night wasn't the perfect game, but it was still a very good game," Shelford told Newstalk ZB.

France have been lucky to make the final, he said, "but luck gets you through sometimes".

"They played well in patches and survived the onslaughts from the Welsh.

"They will turn up next Sunday but ... we are going to be too strong."