Hi Energy Department Announces $9 Million to Improve Energy Efficiency of Hotels, Hospitals, Offices and More!.

Hi Energy Department Announces $9 Million to Improve Energy Efficiency of Hotels, Hospitals, Offices and More!.

As part of the effort to double energy productivity by 2030 and reduce carbon emissions in commercial buildings, the Energy Department announced $9 million to encourage investments in energy-saving technologies that can be tested and deployed in offices, shops, restaurants, hospitals, hotels and other types of commercial buildings. The funding will facilitate the implementation of market-ready solutions across the U.S. to improve commercial building energy efficiency, with a goal of demonstrating 20 percent savings or more across a variety of approaches.

Last year, commercial buildings accounted for approximately 20 percent of total U.S. energy use, equivalent to about 18 quadrillion British thermal units of energy. Owners and occupants could cut energy waste, saving an estimated tens of billions of dollars annually, if they operated their buildings more efficiently and invested in energy-saving technologies. Additionally, accelerating investment in efficiency upgrades could also lead to greater demand for new building products and technologies, many of which are produced and developed in the U.S.

This funding opportunity encourages building owners and occupants to demonstrate widely-applicable and self-sustaining approaches that address key challenges and make building efficiency improvements easier. Examples include:

•Green leases that help building owners and lessees save money: Equitably align the costs and benefits of efficiency investments between building owners and tenants.

•Better information for better decisions: Use Department-developed energy modeling software to better identify and predict a building’s energy performance. The goal is to show how energy efficiency can result in lower energy bills and reduce overhead.

•Low-risk nature of financing energy efficiency projects: Assist lenders in obtaining better access to data and information resources that demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of investing in energy efficiency projects.

This funding opportunity seeks to support 5-10 projects that will increase energy savings in commercial buildings by advancing the use of tools, solutions and resources the Department has developed to help commercial building owners, managers and professionals overcome barriers to efficiency.

Organizations are encouraged to partner on applications to enhance the overall deployment impact by leveraging current deployment channels, market orientation and strategic relationships. The Department is interested in proposals that will impact a significant geographic and commercial buildings market sector, affect a minimum of 100 buildings, achieve at least 20 percent energy savings over 10 years, train workers, create jobs, and result in programs that will be self-sustaining after the funding period expires.

The (Hi) Green Playing Field!.

The (Hi) Green Playing Field!.

On The Positive Techies Innovations Playing Field Group;

Researchers in Japanese universities are working to explain the aerodynamics of birds and insects such as hummingbirds and butterflies. 

Their goal is to develop tiny robots weighing several grams that can fly by flapping its wings.

These days, the buzzword “nano” is widely used by scientists, engineers, medical practitioners, technocrats and industrialists. 

The concept was originally proposed by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman in 1959.

 

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Japan, US companies race to build IT infrastructure in Asia.

Kaneka has developed an LCD panel protective film that passes through twice more backlight than conventional films.

On The Chameleon's hole Green Playing Field Group;

How many senses does a human being have?

We have at least 21 senses not 5 senses.

“You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and we show you how deep the chameleon’s hole goes”.

On The Green Playing Field Transportation Group;

Is Tesla Motors overhyped in China?

Having achieved a spectacular comeback as an automaking juggernaut, Toyota Motor says it intends to pour a hefty sum into R&D and other forward-looking initiatives this fiscal year.

On The Climate Change Green Playing Field Group;

A journalist who gets climate change right.

A decade has passed since the launch of the government-led Cool Biz energy-saving campaign. Many consumers now seem to own enough light clothes to deal with the warmer office environment.

Hi Idealist Shift - Hi Air Pollution Exhaust: "New process points to cheaper way to clean up car exhaust"

Hi Idealist Shift - Hi Air Pollution Exhaust: "New process points to cheaper way to clean up car exhaust."

"New Design, Fuel Savings"

Catalytic converters could become smaller, cheaper and more fuel-efficient thanks to a new manufacturing process developed at Imperial College London.

Conventional converters use a catalyst typically made from precious metals to convert toxic pollutants from car exhaust fumes into less harmful gases.

Engineers at Imperial have produced a new converter design, made possible by a novel manufacturing process, that cuts the amount of expensive catalyst needed and could also reduce how much energy is used to pass the exhaust through the converter.

Dr Ben Kingsbury, who invented the new converter, said he estimated the design would cut the size of the hollow ceramic block that forms the substrate for the catalyst by around half.

‘In modern cars space really is at a premium and if you can reduce the size of the substrate that is very interesting,’.

The catalyst is spread over the internal surface of a number of hollow tubes inside the ceramic block. Using a method in which the ceramic molecules self-assemble into a novel structure, the researchers were able to effectively create micro channels along the inside of the tubes, simultaneously increasing their surface area and reducing the thickness of the catalyst layer.

They claim this reduces the amount of catalyst needed by up to 80 per cent and increases the amount of exhaust that can be detoxified at any one time - meaning the overall size of the device can be reduced.

The structure’s greater surface area also means the tubes themselves can be larger, reducing the pressure within the converter and so cutting the amount of energy it drains from the engine.

Kingsbury said the new design could reduce the pressure by 40 to 70 per cent compared to existing models, leading to a fuel saving of 2 to 3 per cent.

The manufacturing process was developed from a system created by Kingsbury’s colleagues at Imperial originally design to produce polymer membranes but that has also been used to create novel fuel-cell structures.

Described as a ‘phase inversion and sintering process’, the manufacturing technique involves mixing the ceramic material with a solvent and a polymer binder to create a suspension liquid.

This is extruded into a water bath, causing the polymer to precipitate out of the suspension and leaving behind a solid ceramic material whose molecules self-assemble into the desired structure.

The challenge for the researchers was quantifying how the different parameters of the process affected the final product in order to be able to design specific structures.

They have now created a spin out firm, Microtech Ceramics, and plan to scale up the technology in order to license it to automotive manufacturers, helped by an Enterprise Fellowship grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

This will involve demonstrating the durability of the new design and how it can be integrated with the rest of the exhaust system.

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