LED (or Light Emitting Diode) lighting products are quickly taking over the incandescent lamp world. They are meeting the needs of the present, without compromising the generation of the future’s own needs. LED lamps use up to 75% less energy than incandescent lamps, without the production of carcinogenic materials (such as lead and mercury) [...]
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ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING STATIONS
Electric car sales are increasing and therefore the need (or at least the future need) of charging stations. Charging stations are being added in residential garages, carports and exterior parking areas, as well as parking garages of commercial and government buildings. I have even seem them popping up in municipal bus stations and parking lots. [...]
THE BUSINESS OF GOING GREEN
Driven by unstable fuel prices, increased energy consumption and government regulation, the business of going green is soaring. The Energy Independence and Security Act has set in motion green building technology implementation in federal buildings. The bill includes provisions to improve energy efficiency in lighting, appliances, and equipment. At the same time it pushes for [...]
SOLAR POWER STORAGE USING MOLTEN SALT
A major deterrent to the development of solar power generation, is the ability to store on a large-scale, the electricity produced during the day for use at night. The only true options to this point are to use solar photovoltaics (PV’s) only when it’s sunny or to charge batteries. The charging of batteries [...]
SOLAR COSTS FALLING
A September 2011 report from the US Department of Energy (through its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) states: “The cost to install a photovoltaic system (solar collection and electrical power conversion) has fallen by 17% or $1.30 per watt, from 2009 to 2010, with similar results from January through June 2011.” Factors are: A drop in [...]
LED, WHAT IS IT?
Light Emitting Diode (LED) is a semiconductor light-producing unit. When an electrical current passes through the unique materials, there is a recombination of positive and negative charges resulting in the emission of photons, as light energy. This action is called electroluminescence. The color of the light is determined by the energy gap of semiconductor and [...]
LED LIGHTING HISTORY
Light Emitting Diode (LED), or Solid Stage Lighting (SSL), was invented in the 1920’s, but no practical uses could be found. Then in 1961 the first serious work began on industrializing this technology here in the United States, at Texas Instruments and General Electric. However, with costs of $200 per unit, practical use remained years [...]
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Green Energy’s liberal definitions must contain some elements of sustainable energy, which in turn must contain elements of energy efficiency and renewable energy. However, Green Energy’s more stringent definitions balk at the provisions of sustainable energy fuels, that produce some pollution into the environment. This fuel production and its eventual transformation into electrical energy, cannot [...]
REFERENCES FOR “GOING GREEN”
In dealing with the vast subject of Green Energy, a lot of time was spent on reading and researching. Consequently, I had listed below the entire list of references for all of “Going Green”: REFERENCES: A. Wikipedia Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SustainableEnergy” 1. “The Twin Pillars of Sustainable Energy: Synergies between Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [...]
GREEN CONCLUSION
Green Energy Technology goals are not only noble but will have an ever-growing place in the always increasing energy production needs. The goal of taking what God has given us in renewable energy sources, and converting them into electrical power in order to sustain and enhance our lives (without the fear of polluting the [...]
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