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Broad based techie, Started in Electrical Engineering & Physics applied to Neurophysiology and BioPhysics, major career thrust was software development at the hardware-software interface, including embedded systems. Now extremely interested in energy for the future. See www.modular-e.com for downloadable energy resources/references.

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More energy efficient: In well-used room, keeps lights on or turn off/on?

The typical maximum power that can be pulled from your socket is 1800 watts during turnon of a grid connected device. If your CFL is 20 Watts continuous then for energy consumption your breakeven ...

Submitted by EnergyFred 2 months ago

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Roofing

The whole point is to increase the reflectivity of the roof in both the visual and infra-red portions of the sun's spectrum. That alone provides a cooler roof and attic. This is why the application ...

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Build your own solar panel - diy, homemade power?

If you mean a Solar PV system as opposed to making the cells and wiring and packaging them together yhen the answer is definitely yes. If you could provide more information on what you would like to ...

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Gas Taxes to promote energy efficiency

I would like to see a renewable energy tax of about $0.60 /gallon or about 10 cents per pound of fuel. This would be a start for long term sustainability funding and less painful than our seasonal ...

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4,6-dinitro-2-methylphenol We tested a facility ...

The allowable concentration of this compound is about .2 PPM ( .2 mg/1.3 /m^3) in air. What you have is 27 mg / kg in the concentrated dust or 27/1.293 mg / m^3 air. http://environmentalchemistry ...

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How long does it take to count 700 billion dollars ...

If you had enough $100 bills, and counted on the average of 1 bill / second then it would take about 222 Years counting continuously to count all 7 billion bills. There are 365.24 days each year and ...

Submitted by EnergyFred 10 months ago

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Unemployment

If you have been treating yourself as an employee with the requisite federal and state filings and paying state unemployment insurance then you should be able to collect.

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Compare energy

First of all Watts are a unit of Power, Energy (KWHrs or BTU) is power doing work for a time period. Circusenvy1 has the correct definition of a BTU but the conversion (assuming 1 lb of water raised ...

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