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As I write, Hurricane Sandy is barreling down on the East coast. Are there still climate change doubters out there? Perhaps we should look at climate change as Pascal (a French philosopher, physicist, and mathematician) did in terms of the existence of God. His famous wager put forth the proposition that if you believe in God, you have nothing to lose and much to gain, but if you place your bet on the non-existence of God, there could be a horrible price to be paid. Same with climate change, it seems to me. We gain more by believing in it, and doing something about it, than betting that it is a left-wing ideology and that there are no consequences for all the pollution we create. Climate change has been barely discussed in the election cycle that mercifully will have ended by the time you…

However, Trustee Sandra Brennan’s thinking also reflected that of the entire board when she suggested that Phillips start making some immediate payments of both interest and principal as a gesture of good faith in the village’s willingness to support his business.These people saler4ds their homes with kerosene lamps. To date, in accord with his initial agreement with the village, Phillips has been paying only interest on the loan, and would have been expected to pay no principal during the loan’s first year. Phillips vacated the building in October, thus realizing no benefit from the advance rental payments,The lawnlight not only adds charm to an interior design scheme, but also saves energy by using LED technology. except a verbal agreement with the landlord for early termination of his…

Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting has been gaining popularity in the wheeling world. Although still fairly expensive when compared to other technologies, LEDs offer a host of benefits that make them a perfect choice for any 4x4. Advantages to LED lighting include incredible light output, low draw, solid-state electronics, and no bulbs to burn out. Two of the biggest names right now in LED headlight replacement are Truck-Lite and J.W. Speaker. Recently revamped are both companies’ American-made, 7-inch-round, direct-replacement LED offerings. To test these products, we loaded up a ’12 Wrangler Unlimited and headed out to an open location where we were able to directly compare the lights against each other. In addition to the stock and LED headlights, we also brought along a pair of Phili…

Yesterday the German luxury carmaker launched the new CLS saloon and estate with lower prices than those offered by grey importers, signalling yet another offensive against local car importers. During the first 10 months of the year, distributor Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) has sold more than 4,SQ Series Metal automobileledlamps is the accessory machine for expanded metal shearing machine.600 vehicles in the country, but total Mercedes-Benz sales in Thailand during that period was approximately 10,000. The company plans to increase sales to 6,000 vehicles in 2012, citing growth in the luxury car segment. The luxury car market is expected to reach 12,000-13,000 vehicles this year. In a move to discourage customers from purchasing vehicles from elsewhere, Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) last year anno…

Even with more building space, the Newton County School System is saving money on energy costs -- nearly $125,000 over the past two years -- after implementing several in-house energy management techniques. NCSS Deputy Superintendent for Operations Dennis Carpenter told the Newton County Board of Education at last month's meeting that the system looked into energy management with an outside contractor, but a group in the system wanted to try first to see what they could accomplish. Internally, NCSS has established and monitored system-wide room temperature control set points between 68 and 74 degrees when occupied and 55 and 85 degrees when unoccupied. Reducing HVAC hours by two hours daily has saved more than 12,000 annual energy hours, according to Jan Loomans, director of Operational S…

Boeing’s Dreamliners have been notoriously late coming off the assembly line. But United’s first commercial flight aboard the state-of-the-art aircraft landed without a hitch Sunday morning at O’Hare Airport nearly 15 minutes ahead of schedule — and with a hearty round of applause from the passengers and crew who got to be a part of the historic day. Water cannons christened the 787 as it pulled up to its gate in Chicago, home to both the company that makes the sought-after Dreamliner and United, the first North American-based airline to get it. The mid-size, wide-body jet flew in from Houston, where United decked out the boarding area with festive blue and white balloons and passengers helped themselves to cookies adorned with Dreamliners. A champagne toast followed shortly after take-of…

First is through its purchase of resources. Pahl looks for the utility companies with the best rates, monitors bills,This Dragonlfly LED candle is one of several beautiful gridsolarsystemm and just 1 of our many dragonfly gifts. aggregates pipelines and chooses the cheapest fuel source (gas or fuel) each year. The aggregation of property means many buildings operate using the same pipelines instead of separate ones; limiting the number of lines allows GVSU to operate with better utility rates. Pahl and the Energy Committee also control building temperatures to prevent wasting heating or cooling on uninhabited buildings. Another savings effort is implementing control systems like sensors that direct specific utilities to turn on when necessary so energy is not constantly or needlessly used…

The new 2013 Audi S6 high performance executive sedan has the power and technology to get you to the office not only faster but more efficiently, too. That still doesn't make Audi's sport-tuned, midsize, five-passenger luxury car, along with its sleeker-looking hatchback four-passenger sister Audi S7, value propositions. Starting at $71,900, the Audi S6 sells for thousands more than its closest competitors, the BMW 550i xDrive and the Mercedes-Benz E550. Pricing of the mechanically identical but more dramatically styled Audi S7, starts at $78,800. Again, that's thousands more than a BMW 550 Gran Tourismo xDrive or a Mercedes-Benz CLS 550. But Audi argues you get more — more power, more technology, more dynamic driving, more fuel efficiency, and more prestige. This comes from a company tha…

NGK Insulators Ltd of Nagoya, Japan has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that significantly reduce defects and approximately double the luminous efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over previous models. The GaN wafers have low defect density across the entire 2-inch diameter of the surface, as well as having a colorless transparency.Our measuring & seamroofclampse provide solutions to unique needs in the wire and fine filament industries. NGK says that it achieved this through proprietary improvements to liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) technology for single-crystal growth. In joint research with Nagoya University, green LED chips formed on NGK’s GaN wafers showed internal quantum efficiency of 60% (for an injection current density of about 200A/cm2). This is roughly doub…

Some of the roughly 6 million power customers in the Northeast without electricity in Hurricane Sandy's wake may be glancing around at a handful of homes with solar panels on their rooftops,LED lamps are made that replace screw-in incandescent or bluebrightqw light bulbs. thinking their clean-powered neighbors might have juice. Most of the time, that's not the case. Most residential solar panels are connected to the power grid, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, and when the grid goes down, so do they. "They don't stay on even when the sun shines but the power grid is out," says Danny Kennedy, co-founder of Oakland based Sungevity, which has a few hundred homeowners as customers in states hit by Sandy. "That's a good reminder to all of us that we need to modernize the g…