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7 unusual facts about Efficient energy use


1991–92 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey season

The renovation included a new energy efficient refrigeration unit and rink floor as well as the installation of a desiccant dehumidification system.

Alberta Solar Decathlon Project

The Solar Decathlon is a high-profile, international competition in which twenty selected teams of university and college students from around the globe compete to design, build and operate the most attractive, practical and energy-efficient solar-powered home.

Luca Gammaitoni

Energy efficiency in computing devices, with specific reference to micro and nanoscale logic gate devices

Monica Oliphant

She has a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of London and worked for almost 20 years as an Energy Research Scientist in the Electricity Trust of South Australia, but since 2000 has been an independent consultant specialising in residential energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Tasneem Essop

This body, which was reactivated in 2008, is chaired by Ms. Essop and has been responsible for reducing electricity consumption, promoting energy efficiency and alternative sources of energy in the Western Cape.

The Model home 2020 project

The unique features of the house lie in intelligent use of the sloping roof to combine well-being and energy efficiency.

Zero carbon housing

Zero Carbon Housing and Zero Energy Housing are terms used interchangeably to define single family dwellings with a very high energy efficiency rating.


Andris Piebalgs

He assigned high priority to reducing overall energy demand, especially by improving the energy efficiency of buildings, promoting the long-term development of hydrogen as a fuel source, improving the competitiveness of renewable energy sources through economic measures, and supporting the development of nuclear fusion and the ITER project.

Environmental design

Nowadays, energy efficiency, appropriate technology, organic horticulture and agriculture, land restoration, New Urbanism, and ecologically sustainable energy and waste systems are recognized considerations or options and may each find application.


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