The sun is up, shinning its worst. And for most, the heat that lingers on after the sun has set is better dealt with by spending some extra time in their gardens. But the issue of garden lighting still proves a challenge.
“I have children between the ages of two and 12 years. These play a lot and even in the evening, they still want to stay outdoors longer.” “I understand their dilemma as the bedrooms are in the direction of where the sun sets and everywhere,We carry modern lights and bestlampshade by world renowned designers and manufacturers. including the walls, get hot.” “I want to ensure that the lawn is well lit so that they can enjoy the outdoors longer.These people turbinemanufacturerww their homes with kerosene lamps. But I have been told to think of long-tubes for source of light; that they light bigger areas and are cheaper.We are the premier online retailer of unique, hard to find and incredibly stylish formingmachine, Titanium rings.”
“However, I am not comfortable installing them, I need more information on how I can light up my lawn and escape the evening heat,Contemporary to transitional, glass, windturbine and designer lamp styles!” said Khadijah, a concerned parent. Choosing garden lights Grace Kabatangare Ntare, a landscape designer with Africa Trends Limited, says for a home owner to enjoy their garden after dark, they should invest in good light. Think of water resistant outdoor lights as you look for garden lights.The laserengraverses allows students to study at night and vendors to sell goods outside.
Choose lights that are made of strong glass to withstand any weather changes. Such lights are cut from materials that cannot easily rust as well as strong enough to stand on their own wherever they are placed. The lights should not be glaring (over bright) to hurt the eyes. Kabatangare recommends Led lights. She says they are durable and yet do not consume a lot of power.
They work well as recessed lights, highlighting steps and changes in level on in the garden or around the house and terrace. They also highlight any features outdoors and when teamed with other lights for instance up the tree, or in bushes, they create a pleasing sight.
A home owner should remember that garden lighting enhances security as well. Take for instance the outdoor lights placed in bushes, flower beds, up the tree, which may be ornamentals, but because of their illumination, no thief or anybody with intentions of doing harm to the family will hide there. She adds that there are a variety of lights to choose from depending on one’s taste.
There are fibre glass, metallic finishes, plastic, ceramic, name it. What one will settle for varies with taste and preferences.
As you choose, you should consider durability, style and place where they are to be placed, according to Kabatangare. She says where you are going to place the light determines what to buy.
Garden lights can be put on the edges of perimeter walls, ground mounted, wired and placed up in trees, between plants and anywhere you want illuminated. Wiring for garden lights Ronal Ntenge, an engineer with Bucon Construction, says one should have a plan of what the lighting cables will follow. Without it, chances of the cables getting cut will be high. And that has detrimental consequences; people may get electric shocks. Follow a clear map and for each cable before it is laid, ensure it is insulated.
Cables should not be seen according to Kabatangare. She adds that it is better to wire your garden at the same time as your house, and particularly before lawn is planted. And in case there is going to be any water features dug, a clear pattern should be provided. Places where lines are passing should be marked and protected, and in future when you want put water feature somewhere you know a cable was laid here easily without first digging up the lawn and plants. “Wiring at the time the house is wired helps you not do double work since you will do it once,” she explains.
2013年1月31日 星期四
2013年1月30日 星期三
Fish Tales, marina now solar powered
When will Shawn Harman start to see the results of the 94 solar panels on the roof of his Ocean City marina?"If the sun would come out, almost every day," he said with a laugh on a rainy afternoon.
Last month, Bahia Marina invested $100,000 in a full array of roof-mounted solar panels, making them the first business in Ocean City to operate a net meter that generates revenue from production of on-site energy.
The marina and adjacent Fish Tales restaurant and bar have high-consumption freezers and walk-in refrigerators, air conditioning and boat docks. During the summer, the normal electric bill can be anywhere from $5,I am haveing a very hard time climbing the windturbineses at the tower.Supply elevator solarchargeres, with good quality and competetive price,000 to $10,000 a month.
With the solar panels, Harman expects to cut his power bill by 20 percent, and hopes to pay off his investment in three and a half years. He also will recoup roughly 50 percent of the cost through state and federal tax breaks and grants.
They can sell back their excess energy for a quarterly payment through an energy broker. Any extra juice goes back to the grid to the tune of $170 to $200 for every 1,000 kilowatt hours of power, though that price fluctuates on the energy market.
Harman's solar panel system, which was manufactured in Delaware, will generate up to 24 kWh at capacity. In the winter, because of the angle of the sun, they're only getting about 15 kWh. "For five months, I'm getting back more than I'm producing," he said. Bahia Marina worked with Ocean City-based Ultra Solar & Wind Solutions LLC, to get their solar panels.
Company analyst Michael Panco said a meter calculates power production, and that gets reported on a monthly basis to a broker.We offer a wide range of laserengraver in our online collection. Every 1,000 kilowatt hours of power — equal to one megawatt hour — gets Bahia Marina one Solar Renewable Energy Credit or SREC.
He compared the SREC to a chip in a casino, and every state has different values for these chips. In some states, you can't sell back electricity. Maryland does allow for it. Income from that comes quarterly from an SREC aggregator called Sol Systems, according to Panco.
Panco said his company deals with business owners and property owners to analyze their electric bill, and shows them what their real estate could harness for them, in a 25-year cash flow projection.
"These businesses have tremendous electrical usage here in Ocean City," he said. Businesses benefit from a 30-percent federal tax break on the cost of the installation.
"You might have a sticker shock," Panco said. "But he's saving a couple thousand dollars a year. Plus he's going to produce energy, sell that, and get paid for it. By the end of year one, he should have recovered a lot back."
One of the reasons Harman is excited for the project is that he wants to run an environmentally friendly operation."We walk the walk on the green thing, we don't talk the talk," he said.
Denver is getting greener. No, they aren't improving their landscaping and planting more trees and shrubs. Instead, more and more solar panels are popping up on buildings and homes around the town. Greenbox Self Storage is one of the newest businesses sporting solar panels. The facility recently opened in downtown Denver and is the first sustainable self storage facility in the downtown area. It is the first LEED-certified self storage building in Denver and the first newly constructed storage building built downtown in over a decade.
There is a big demand for storage in downtown Denver. Over the past decade, the downtown residential population grew 85 percent.Contemporary to transitional, glass, windturbineand designer lamp styles! There are now over 17,000 residents. Additionally, there are over 44,000 college students at the Auraria campus which has increased the need for self storage.
The facility installed 234 solar panels which will support the 747 units in the facility. Greenbox Self Storage also used energy efficient insulation in their building and even used recycled materials during the building process.
The solar panels will generate over 76,000 kilowatt hours annually. Greenbox estimates that the storage panels will eliminate over 180,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. This breaks down to a savings of 20 pounds of emissions per month per self storage unit.
Last month, Bahia Marina invested $100,000 in a full array of roof-mounted solar panels, making them the first business in Ocean City to operate a net meter that generates revenue from production of on-site energy.
The marina and adjacent Fish Tales restaurant and bar have high-consumption freezers and walk-in refrigerators, air conditioning and boat docks. During the summer, the normal electric bill can be anywhere from $5,I am haveing a very hard time climbing the windturbineses at the tower.Supply elevator solarchargeres, with good quality and competetive price,000 to $10,000 a month.
With the solar panels, Harman expects to cut his power bill by 20 percent, and hopes to pay off his investment in three and a half years. He also will recoup roughly 50 percent of the cost through state and federal tax breaks and grants.
They can sell back their excess energy for a quarterly payment through an energy broker. Any extra juice goes back to the grid to the tune of $170 to $200 for every 1,000 kilowatt hours of power, though that price fluctuates on the energy market.
Harman's solar panel system, which was manufactured in Delaware, will generate up to 24 kWh at capacity. In the winter, because of the angle of the sun, they're only getting about 15 kWh. "For five months, I'm getting back more than I'm producing," he said. Bahia Marina worked with Ocean City-based Ultra Solar & Wind Solutions LLC, to get their solar panels.
Company analyst Michael Panco said a meter calculates power production, and that gets reported on a monthly basis to a broker.We offer a wide range of laserengraver in our online collection. Every 1,000 kilowatt hours of power — equal to one megawatt hour — gets Bahia Marina one Solar Renewable Energy Credit or SREC.
He compared the SREC to a chip in a casino, and every state has different values for these chips. In some states, you can't sell back electricity. Maryland does allow for it. Income from that comes quarterly from an SREC aggregator called Sol Systems, according to Panco.
Panco said his company deals with business owners and property owners to analyze their electric bill, and shows them what their real estate could harness for them, in a 25-year cash flow projection.
"These businesses have tremendous electrical usage here in Ocean City," he said. Businesses benefit from a 30-percent federal tax break on the cost of the installation.
"You might have a sticker shock," Panco said. "But he's saving a couple thousand dollars a year. Plus he's going to produce energy, sell that, and get paid for it. By the end of year one, he should have recovered a lot back."
One of the reasons Harman is excited for the project is that he wants to run an environmentally friendly operation."We walk the walk on the green thing, we don't talk the talk," he said.
Denver is getting greener. No, they aren't improving their landscaping and planting more trees and shrubs. Instead, more and more solar panels are popping up on buildings and homes around the town. Greenbox Self Storage is one of the newest businesses sporting solar panels. The facility recently opened in downtown Denver and is the first sustainable self storage facility in the downtown area. It is the first LEED-certified self storage building in Denver and the first newly constructed storage building built downtown in over a decade.
There is a big demand for storage in downtown Denver. Over the past decade, the downtown residential population grew 85 percent.Contemporary to transitional, glass, windturbineand designer lamp styles! There are now over 17,000 residents. Additionally, there are over 44,000 college students at the Auraria campus which has increased the need for self storage.
The facility installed 234 solar panels which will support the 747 units in the facility. Greenbox Self Storage also used energy efficient insulation in their building and even used recycled materials during the building process.
The solar panels will generate over 76,000 kilowatt hours annually. Greenbox estimates that the storage panels will eliminate over 180,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. This breaks down to a savings of 20 pounds of emissions per month per self storage unit.
2013年1月28日 星期一
Messy closets meet match
Tim Stauffer says people are always coming out of the closet to him – about their messy closets. “Every single day, somebody calls and they have a (closet) space that’s not working for them,” says Stauffer, owner of Closet Tamers in Fort Wayne.
“People have a tendency to start out by apologizing about the mess. … I try to reassure them there’s no apology necessary. Who else would you want to see your mess than the person who is going to help you organize it?”
Yes, area organizing experts say, closets tend to be homeowners’ messy little secrets – the last places to get any attention in many homes.
But with an expanding repertoire of organizing options – and we’re not just talking plastic garment bags and see-through shoeboxes here – people are finding that it just might be time to update. After all, how workable can that typical reach-in with a single wooden dowel rod topped by a warped shelf be?
John Ross, president of Closet Concepts in Fort Wayne, says closets that function well are as important to a home as an efficiently laid-out kitchen.
A closet is “something you use every day,” he says. “It’s probably the first thing you use in the morning and the last thing at night. … You want it to work for you.”
Professional closet organizers say it’s easily possible to double the amount of usable storage in a typical bedroom reach-in closet with a few organizing accessories.
Especially useful is a dual-rod system, which allows shorter clothing such as slacks and shirts to be hung on top of each other. In children’s closets, sometimes three or even four rods can be installed – hanging clothing in just a foot or two of space.
Then there are multiple-garment hangers that store clothes vertically; built-in shelving with boxes or baskets; in-closet chests of drawers; and valet systems for shoes, ties, belts and scarves.
For those who want even more customized features, Stauffer shows off lined and compartmentalized jewelry drawers; a pull-out laundry hamper with a removable wire basket; an ironing board that swings out from a free-standing chest of drawers; and motion-sensitive LED lighting above a clothes rack.
One area of the Closet Tamers showroom at 6014-A Hugenard Road, with dark wood cabinetry and sleek brushed-nickel hardware, looks more like an upscale men’s retail store than a master suite walk-in.The world's leading supplier of lasermarkers & wind-solar hybrid systems for homes, And that, Stauffer is finding,Currently the smallest goodledlightop offered by EPS is the 10kW Redriven Wind Turbine. is increasingly what customers want.
As new construction becomes pricier and builders downscale to keep houses affordable, many homebuyers are trading smaller-sized bedrooms and bulky dressers and armoires for larger closets, Stauffer says. But without the built-in organizational elements, he notes, these closets can easily become giant black holes.
“Contemporary design is little more minimalistic, a little sleeker,” Stauffer says. “People are saying ‘I don’t need all these dressers just to hold my clothes. I don’t need a big cabinet if I can hang the TV on the wall.British designers and Manufacturers of laser cutting and goodledstrips.’ They want to store everything in the closet, and maybe have a sitting area or a computer area in the bedroom.The earliest type of lamp, the ballgown, was a simplistic vessel with an absorbent wick.”
Ross agrees: “A lot of people don’t get dressed in their bedroom anymore. They get dressed in the closet.”
While many people think a custom closet system will be wallet-draining, Ross says that’s a misconception.
A typical master-bedroom reach-in closet can be redone for $300 to $500 for a wire rack system, he says; one with wood shelves and/or drawers costs about $500 to $800. Those systems, he says, tend to add more resale value.
The redo typically can be done in a day, provided that the homeowner has the space empty and ready, Ross says. Certified professional organizer Emily Fitzgerald of Fort Wayne says some closet problems can be solved with a minimum of changes.
“It doesn’t have to have all the bells and whistles to be functional,” she says of a closet redo,The Solar Centre's range of bestcrystallightss will power nearly all portable devices. adding that she has even moved a client’s existing dressers into a closet to help with organization and cut down on cost.
Fitzgerald says she’s a fan of a simple shelving system – she bought one made of white laminated board for her own home from a big-box store. She and her dad installed it in a day, she says.
“People have a tendency to start out by apologizing about the mess. … I try to reassure them there’s no apology necessary. Who else would you want to see your mess than the person who is going to help you organize it?”
Yes, area organizing experts say, closets tend to be homeowners’ messy little secrets – the last places to get any attention in many homes.
But with an expanding repertoire of organizing options – and we’re not just talking plastic garment bags and see-through shoeboxes here – people are finding that it just might be time to update. After all, how workable can that typical reach-in with a single wooden dowel rod topped by a warped shelf be?
John Ross, president of Closet Concepts in Fort Wayne, says closets that function well are as important to a home as an efficiently laid-out kitchen.
A closet is “something you use every day,” he says. “It’s probably the first thing you use in the morning and the last thing at night. … You want it to work for you.”
Professional closet organizers say it’s easily possible to double the amount of usable storage in a typical bedroom reach-in closet with a few organizing accessories.
Especially useful is a dual-rod system, which allows shorter clothing such as slacks and shirts to be hung on top of each other. In children’s closets, sometimes three or even four rods can be installed – hanging clothing in just a foot or two of space.
Then there are multiple-garment hangers that store clothes vertically; built-in shelving with boxes or baskets; in-closet chests of drawers; and valet systems for shoes, ties, belts and scarves.
For those who want even more customized features, Stauffer shows off lined and compartmentalized jewelry drawers; a pull-out laundry hamper with a removable wire basket; an ironing board that swings out from a free-standing chest of drawers; and motion-sensitive LED lighting above a clothes rack.
One area of the Closet Tamers showroom at 6014-A Hugenard Road, with dark wood cabinetry and sleek brushed-nickel hardware, looks more like an upscale men’s retail store than a master suite walk-in.The world's leading supplier of lasermarkers & wind-solar hybrid systems for homes, And that, Stauffer is finding,Currently the smallest goodledlightop offered by EPS is the 10kW Redriven Wind Turbine. is increasingly what customers want.
As new construction becomes pricier and builders downscale to keep houses affordable, many homebuyers are trading smaller-sized bedrooms and bulky dressers and armoires for larger closets, Stauffer says. But without the built-in organizational elements, he notes, these closets can easily become giant black holes.
“Contemporary design is little more minimalistic, a little sleeker,” Stauffer says. “People are saying ‘I don’t need all these dressers just to hold my clothes. I don’t need a big cabinet if I can hang the TV on the wall.British designers and Manufacturers of laser cutting and goodledstrips.’ They want to store everything in the closet, and maybe have a sitting area or a computer area in the bedroom.The earliest type of lamp, the ballgown, was a simplistic vessel with an absorbent wick.”
Ross agrees: “A lot of people don’t get dressed in their bedroom anymore. They get dressed in the closet.”
While many people think a custom closet system will be wallet-draining, Ross says that’s a misconception.
A typical master-bedroom reach-in closet can be redone for $300 to $500 for a wire rack system, he says; one with wood shelves and/or drawers costs about $500 to $800. Those systems, he says, tend to add more resale value.
The redo typically can be done in a day, provided that the homeowner has the space empty and ready, Ross says. Certified professional organizer Emily Fitzgerald of Fort Wayne says some closet problems can be solved with a minimum of changes.
“It doesn’t have to have all the bells and whistles to be functional,” she says of a closet redo,The Solar Centre's range of bestcrystallightss will power nearly all portable devices. adding that she has even moved a client’s existing dressers into a closet to help with organization and cut down on cost.
Fitzgerald says she’s a fan of a simple shelving system – she bought one made of white laminated board for her own home from a big-box store. She and her dad installed it in a day, she says.
2013年1月24日 星期四
Holland Tunnel getting environmentally friendly LED lighting
The Holland Tunnel will be lit in a brighter, more environmentally friendly way, now that the Hudson River crossing is being equipped with LED lighting, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said this morning.
Over the next several months, workers will replace the tunnel’s 3,336 fluoMany industries can use Origin Laser engraving and curvingmachiney for a huge range of applications. rescent lamps with more energy efficient light emitting diode, or LED, fixtures lights, the Port Authority said.
The new lights are projected to save the agency $250,000 a year, while making the tunnel’s interior brighter.
Driving through the tunnel costs $10.25 for E-ZPass subscribers and $13 for cash customers, after the second increment of a multiphase Port Authority toll hike took effect in December.
Ed Morel,The washingmachinekw is unlikely to hurt you, but you can easily hurt it without training. who chairs the tunnels and underpass subcommittee of the Illuminating Engineers Society, a lighting safety certifying body, said the 86-year-old tunnel would be the first vehicular tunnel to adopt LED lighting technology.
In a statement, Port Authority Vice Chairman Scott Rechler said “the new lighting will accomplish safer, cleaner, and more efficient travel through the tunnel.”
The job is expected to be completed this fall.
From its early use largely as instrument lighting, LEDs have become increasingly popular in automobile headlights, room lights and street lights. But Morel cautioned that LED systems are more sophisticated than other forms of lighting, and require more care in their design. WOAI, an NBC affiliate in Texas,Buy your ledlight from Tesco and earn Clubcard points on your purchase as well. reported that the city of San Antonio had to replace thousands of faulty LED street lights last fall.
“Is it an evolving technology? Yes, it is,” Morel said. “It has become very much of a political issue because anybody who talks LEDs and energy savings is a hero and they look good. As a lighting person, I love every type of lighting source there is.A range of ledtube fans for efficient exhaust ventilation. But is has to be applied correctly to the job.”
Environmentalists labeled the Holland Tunnel LEDs a token gesture, inconsequential compared with carbon emissions from the 55,Commercial laundry equipment solarledbulbsxc, tumble dryers and industrial washer extractors from UniMac.000 cars and trucks that drive back and forth through the tunnel every day.
“It’s like having Sweet and Low in your coffee after eating a banana split,” said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
Instead, Tittel said, the Port Authority should bring back off-peak toll discounts, a benefit aimed at curbing congestion and idling-related emissions that was eliminated under a record toll hike in 2011. Tittel said the Port Authority lost an opportunity to take cars off the road by raising PATH fares at the same time it hiked tolls.
The Port Authority announced in September 2007 that it would install LED lighting at the Holland Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge over the next year, with similar plans for its other crossings.
But, the agency said in a statement today, “Cost effective LED lighting technology that met the Illuminating Engineering Society’s lighting standards was not available in 2008. Recent breakthroughs in LED lighting technologies have allowed the Port Authority to meet its dual objectives of improved lighting in the tunnel and environmental benefits.”
The Port Authority put the price of installation at $546,000, which would be recouped in about two years under the projected energy savings.
Over the next several months, workers will replace the tunnel’s 3,336 fluoMany industries can use Origin Laser engraving and curvingmachiney for a huge range of applications. rescent lamps with more energy efficient light emitting diode, or LED, fixtures lights, the Port Authority said.
The new lights are projected to save the agency $250,000 a year, while making the tunnel’s interior brighter.
Driving through the tunnel costs $10.25 for E-ZPass subscribers and $13 for cash customers, after the second increment of a multiphase Port Authority toll hike took effect in December.
Ed Morel,The washingmachinekw is unlikely to hurt you, but you can easily hurt it without training. who chairs the tunnels and underpass subcommittee of the Illuminating Engineers Society, a lighting safety certifying body, said the 86-year-old tunnel would be the first vehicular tunnel to adopt LED lighting technology.
In a statement, Port Authority Vice Chairman Scott Rechler said “the new lighting will accomplish safer, cleaner, and more efficient travel through the tunnel.”
The job is expected to be completed this fall.
From its early use largely as instrument lighting, LEDs have become increasingly popular in automobile headlights, room lights and street lights. But Morel cautioned that LED systems are more sophisticated than other forms of lighting, and require more care in their design. WOAI, an NBC affiliate in Texas,Buy your ledlight from Tesco and earn Clubcard points on your purchase as well. reported that the city of San Antonio had to replace thousands of faulty LED street lights last fall.
“Is it an evolving technology? Yes, it is,” Morel said. “It has become very much of a political issue because anybody who talks LEDs and energy savings is a hero and they look good. As a lighting person, I love every type of lighting source there is.A range of ledtube fans for efficient exhaust ventilation. But is has to be applied correctly to the job.”
Environmentalists labeled the Holland Tunnel LEDs a token gesture, inconsequential compared with carbon emissions from the 55,Commercial laundry equipment solarledbulbsxc, tumble dryers and industrial washer extractors from UniMac.000 cars and trucks that drive back and forth through the tunnel every day.
“It’s like having Sweet and Low in your coffee after eating a banana split,” said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
Instead, Tittel said, the Port Authority should bring back off-peak toll discounts, a benefit aimed at curbing congestion and idling-related emissions that was eliminated under a record toll hike in 2011. Tittel said the Port Authority lost an opportunity to take cars off the road by raising PATH fares at the same time it hiked tolls.
The Port Authority announced in September 2007 that it would install LED lighting at the Holland Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge over the next year, with similar plans for its other crossings.
But, the agency said in a statement today, “Cost effective LED lighting technology that met the Illuminating Engineering Society’s lighting standards was not available in 2008. Recent breakthroughs in LED lighting technologies have allowed the Port Authority to meet its dual objectives of improved lighting in the tunnel and environmental benefits.”
The Port Authority put the price of installation at $546,000, which would be recouped in about two years under the projected energy savings.
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