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Green Electricity from New Technology – First Opcon Powerbox Order from Italy
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“This is our first installation at waste-burning plant. It’s an interesting application with a major environmental benefit. Burning organic waste to generate green electricity also means there is less landfill, with the leaks and emissions that are associated with that. This really is a good example of Waste to Value”
.Opcon, the energy and environmental technology Group, has won its first order from Italy for a steam-powered Opcon Powerbox for production of green electricity. The customer is Ekipo s.r.l., an Italian engineering company that develops, produces and sells turn-key solutions for the process industry, including plants that take care of organic waste.
Delivery of the steam-powered Opcon Powerbox will take place in November 2010. It will be integrated in an installation for burning organic waste designed, developed and produced by Ekipo for a customer in Italy.
“Opcon has now signed five agreements for deliveries of Opcon Powerbox in the past three months alone. This means yet another breakthrough for our new technology and it’s our first order for Opcon Powerbox in Italy. With its high electricity prices and electricity shortages, Italy is a highly interesting market for our technology that produces electricity from hot water or steam,” says Rolf Hasselström, President and CEO of Opcon.
“This is our first installation at waste-burning plant. It’s an interesting application with a major environmental benefit. Burning organic waste to generate green electricity also means there is less landfill, with the leaks and emissions that are associated with that. This really is a good example of Waste to Value,” says Per Hedebäck, head of Opcon’s Renewable Energy business area.
“We see several advantages with Opcon’s Powerbox technology for producing electricity, and we are noting growing opportunities for this type of plant on the Italian market. Burning organic waste to produce green electricity is an area that is expanding in Italy and we are now focusing more resources on developing and supplying this type of complete solution for our customers,” says Massimo Meneghello, CEO of Ekipo s.r.l.
A part of Opcon’s Waste to Value concept, Opcon Powerbox is Opcon’s proprietary product for production of carbon-free electricity from waste and surplus heat at temperatures as low as 55°C. Opcon Powerbox can be installed in large process plants, power plants, on large diesel engines and after adjustment onboard large ships. Opcon Powerbox can produce up to 6,000 MW per year.
The Opcon Group
Opcon is an energy and environmental technology Group that develops, produces and markets systems and products for eco-friendly, efficient and resource-effective use of energy.
Opcon has activities in Sweden, China, Germany, the UK and Denmark. There are around 430 employees. The company’s shares are listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm. The Group comprises three business areas:
Renewable Energy focuses on generating electricity from waste heat, bioenergy, systems for handling natural gas, industrial cooling, recycling of heat, drying of biomass, treatment of flue gases, handling systems for biofuel, etc., air systems for fuel cells and measurement and monitoring of processes.
Engine Efficiency focuses on ignition systems for combustion engines including ethanol, natural gas and biogas engines.
Mobility Products focuses on technology for positioning, motion and regulation for electrical vehicles, electrical wheelchairs and hospital beds.
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A properly designed subnet can do wonders for the security and performance of a network. The main idea in subnetting is to divide a network into smaller pieces, which we call subnets. Actually implementing a subnet is typically more difficult than simply using the default subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This usually means that temporary or smaller networks do not need to be subnetted.
Security sees benefit since the IP addresses of the host computers on each subnet are masked by the network address- which means they are invisible to the outside world. We call this network address translation, or NAT. This same technique helps conserve IP addresses, since all hosts on the subnet essentially just use the network IP address during communication.
A Basic Review on Subnetting
If you’re a little rusty on the basics of subnetting, don’t worry. We’ll cover everything you need to know from beginning to end. First thing first: we need to learn about the IP basics.
The current version of internet protocol, or IP, is IP version 4. This IP version allows four octets of data to represent an IP address. Each octet is considered to be a byte, so there are 8 bits in every octet. Note that in binary form you can see that there are 8 numbers, each one consisting of a bit. Finally, each octet is separated by a period, as shown below.
Each IP address is usually represented in decimal form, as seen above as “192.168.2.1”. However, each IP address is actually used by computers in binary form. You may have noticed a huge flaw in IP version 4: the amount of unique IP addresses is limited! To be exact, only 4,294,967,296 unique IP addresses can be created. This may seem like a large number but keep in mind every single device in the world needs a unique IP address to communicate with one another while online.
The IP version 6 protocol was created for when the transition is needed. Most computers don’t use IPv6 just yet, but in the future it will inevitably be used. (In case you were wondering, IPv6 will support 2^128 unique IP addresses… egad!)
Classes
There are three main types of classifications of IP addresses in IPv4: class A, class B, and class C. There are class D and class E types, but those are for multicasting and private uses, respectively. Each class differs by the number of network and host octets it has. Each network octet is for classifying which network a host is on. More network octets will mean more networks! Likewise, each host octet specifies a host that can be assigned to the network. More host octets means more computers per network.
Each class has a certain range that the first octet can be assigned to. This lets us know to what network class any IP belongs to with ease. Review the diagram below to see a visual diagram.
Now the bad news: you must memorize each range for each class if you hope to pass most network exams. Don’t worry! It’s actually easy- just memorize how we get the numbers, not the numbers themselves! All you have to do is remember n^8 (read as “n” to the eighth power), and how many network portions each class has. Review the diagram below.
One final note before we move on. Notice how we didn’t use the IP address 127 for the class A network- that’s because this is loopback address. We use this for testing configurations on the IP network. Also take note that there are reserved IP addresses, such as those for private networks. These IP addresses will not connect to the internet, which is handy if you just want computers to be connected with each other- and not the whole world.
Subnet Masks
A subnet mask is what we use to assign different amounts of networks and hosts to an IP network. It essentially divides the IP address into two parts: the network and host. This is a trading game- the more hosts you have, the fewer networks you will have. And yet the more networks you have, the fewer hosts you will have. Review the class A default subnet masks as shown below.
The class B network will need to recognize two network portions, and two host portions. This can be seen in the below diagram.
Lastly, we have the class C subnet. It is the most commonly used subnet, so pay special attention to it in the upcoming lecture. You can see a diagram of the default subnet below.
We’ve laid Down the Foundation, Let’s Build the House!
We just reviewed the basics of IP addresses and subnet masks. The bad news is, we usually don’t use the default subnet mask at all when we subnet a network! The good news is, learning how to subnet isn’t too hard. It will, however, take some practice.
An Example of Subnetting a Class C Network
Subnetting varies in difficulty, depending on which class you are subnetting. More often than not, you will need to create a subnet for a class C network. A class C network allows for many networks to be created, but not as many hosts. In fact, you can create a hefty 2,097,152 networks- but only 254 hosts per network are allowed.
Let’s say we are subnetting a school’s network. We need 5 separate networks that have 30 computers on each subnet.
First we calculate how many usable subnets we need. Next we will need to determine how many hosts are required. Both of these values can be calculated with the following equations:
Two Important Equations to Remember:
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1. Usable Subnets = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits assigned
2. Usable Hosts = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits remaining
Let’s start with usable subnets. Review the diagram below for a visual example.
If you are wondering what the “-2” part of the equation is for, this is how we account for the two addresses in each subnet we can’t use. We will review what these addresses are for more specifically later on. For now, let’s find out what our usable hosts are!
Alright Already! What’s My Subnet Mask?!
Getting your subnet mask at this point is incredibly easy. Simply take all of your network bits, and add them up. Look at the diagram below for a visual guide.
That’s it! You’re done. You have successfully created a subnet mask that can be used on the school’s network. Keep in mind that every computer must have the subnet mask set in order for them to be on the same network. Also note that since we are using a class C network, the first three octets will always be 255. When subnetting other classes, be sure to keep the network portions in mind.
Closing Comments
Subnetting may not be fun, but it is required for students to know on networking exams. That means you should stay away from subnet calculators until you have grasped the full concept of how to do it yourself. These calculators should only be used as a time saving tool, not a learning tool or way to cheat on homework.
With enough practice, subnetting will become much easier. Class A and Class B networks are a bit trickier, but follow the same example as shown above and it should be quite easy to accomplish.
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Comment by william on 11 March 2008:
i think this article was a great. easy to follow
Comment by guillermo galdames on 21 March 2008:
I have to say….thanks….this article is much more clear and efficient…now I have learn how to make a subnet…!!!yeap!
Comment by GEORGE on 25 May 2008:
I have searched the net and I should say I have not come across an article like this which is so easy to understand and learn the concepts.
cheers
Comment by Hussam on 5 June 2008:
thanks for the lovely article and I want to add that
the amount of IPv6 is 34,028,236,692,093,846,346,337,460,743,177 Unique Ip Address
Comment by padma on 13 June 2008:
This is a very well written article.Easy to follow.I am happy that I came across this.Thank you.
Comment by Yousaf on 14 June 2008:
Now this is a true, efficient, user-friendly, easy and simple way to teach subnetting. I search the whole internet almost but this tutorial is awsome. I appreciate you of publishing these tutorials here. Thanks a ton !!
Comment by eddy on 10 July 2008:
HI,
very nice work,
u really have a smooth way to deliver information, thanks for the clear efforts ur making.
allow me to mention a small note here regarding the use of (N) and (n) , i think replacing N with 2 in the tables would be less confusing while using (N and M) or N and (32-N) in the equation will make it more rational..
all my respect.
and thanks again.
Comment by Dana on 28 August 2008:
This tutorial should be put in a place of honor. The best!!!
Comment by Chris on 3 September 2008:
Thank you, I now have a better understanding of subnet masks.
Chris.
Comment by sophie on 5 September 2008:
Thanx very much!
For sure its a long time since i was looking for this but today you change ma brain.
I really like the way you deliver information/skills, it seems to me very tough to study it in my class n get the concept of subnetting. But today am sure i may even taught someone n get the real meaning of subnetting.
If u don mind can u please give us some more example by using other classes A & B? Am sure you can
Once again thank you very much!! God bless you
Comment by Devendra on 20 September 2008:
The artical gives good information in systematic manner.It will be bit easier to understand with digramatic representation
Comment by Tasnim hafiz on 28 September 2008:
I am totally confused with my first networking course. Unfortunately my exams tomoro, n I foudn this website today…:p if I pass the exam..I will join this community for future:D
Comment by Satheeshiyer on 28 September 2008:
Hey.. Thank you for sharing this superb article.. I have come across many sites.. but couldn’t get the idea of subnetting..
But finally when I came across this, my cheek started to smile a bit.. from nervousness..
Superb Article ………….
Smiling ever!!
Comment by stanlywit on 30 September 2008:
its interesting to see this article ……….how it produces better knowledge who are all in doubt regarding the concept subnetting
Comment by Jelkyes on 4 October 2008:
I can’t believe that people can actually sit to make things easier for their fellow humans like this free. The material is the best I have ever seen on subnet. Continue with the good work.
Comment by nasir sohail on 20 October 2008:
i am cheerful to find this information because it greatly hepled me to understand the lecture i took from my ccna class yesterday , i am really thankful for this infromation
Comment by MCQ on 22 October 2008:
This is really hard worked, labored, very useful article.
Thanks a lot to the administrator. I liked the article and included the link of this article on my site http://www.psexam.com/websites/others/2.html
Comment by Tom on 22 October 2008:
IPv6 blows my mind… Here’s some back-of-the-envelope calculations I’ve made about it:
-If every person had a trillion devices, each with their own unique IP address, and there were a trillion people on the planet, and there were a trillion such worlds, we would still be using only a fraction of the possible IP addresses.
-There are enough IP address to assign every single atom in over 6 trillion kilograms of carbon a unique address.
-Hussam’s number isn’t right. The actual number of unique IP addresses is (taking the 2^128 number to be correct):
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
Note that MS Calculator can’t display the number of digits necessary for this, and Hussam wrote what it showed.
Comment by Gary on 4 November 2008:
Well organized and useful! I wish to point out a pair of unnecessary ambiguities that could be removed to make the presentation even clearer:
“Powers of N” are really powers of 2. Perhaps N is used here for historical reasons? If not, I would replace it with 2.
If keeping “Powers of N” please do not re-use N as a generic variable, such as in the formula 2^n – 2. Any other letter (e.g. x) would work here.
Thanks
Comment by Baron Von Cisco on 7 November 2008:
Thoroughly good article, clean cut and precise. However, comments like “Subnetting may not be fun, but it is required for students to know on networking exams. That means you should stay away from subnet calculators until you have grasped the full concept of how to do it yourself.”
Although I completely understand the need for students to understand how to subnet, it is fickle to say the above. What benefit is it to not use a calculator. If your stuck in the situation where you need to create subnets then the quickest and easiest solution is to use the calculator. Its good to know manually how to do it but when was the last time you sat a maths exam without a calculator ?
Comment by PaRaNa on 24 November 2008:
Great article ,Thanks for this. But you have shown class C IP blog only on the your examples. Anyway, all of them easy already.
Comment by chris on 4 December 2008:
im pretty sure that you can contary to as you mention use all ones or zeros for the subnet portion in a network so there is no need to subtract two when calculating. you can’t use all ones in the host portion though. cant tell you the rfc. well written. great way of plotting it out.
Comment by shadab on 3 February 2009:
Explanation is too good… easy to understand. Thanks keep up the good work.
Comment by Roxane on 6 March 2009:
You know, I am speechless. I searched allll over the web for the right explaination. Man you did a great job. It went straight to the point. Now I can do this with confidence. Thank you very much.
Comment by saul on 9 March 2009:
i totally found this enlightening. thanx. God bless
Comment by melvit on 12 March 2009:
hi i liked the contents of this article.they are very satisfactory.!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Rudy on 30 April 2009:
Love it
This subnetting explanation was package in the most simple way yet so easy to understand. I wish I could get more info like this..
Thanks for the good work.
Comment by zild on 8 May 2009:
Hi, Thanks for the tutorial
Comment by Safinatu on 11 May 2009:
Hi, thanks for the tutorial, it really helped me.
Comment by 1di0T on 15 May 2009:
Sorry for being a dumb…
I am confuse on the example problem:
Number of Subnets Needed: 5
What power of 2 allows five networks?
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Power of N: N7 N6 N5 N4 N3 N2 N1 N0
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>>>>Equals: 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
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Since 1 + 2 + 4 = 7, we can use N3 (This is where I got confused)???
You said we can use N3 but the one you’ve encircled is N2 = 4
and 1 + 2 + 4 is on N2 N1 and N0 and not N3.
Usable Subnets = 2^3 – 2 (On this part it appears you’ve used N3)
Usable Subnets = 8-2 = 6
I know that 8 > 5, the reason why you used 1+2+4
What power of 2 allows five networks? -> In between 8 – 4
Crap I’ve answered my question…
I think this is still worth posting for future confused like me to be enlightened.. Lol
Comment by Karl on 18 May 2009:
Very good!!! This is the best tutorial I have read on the internet.
Subnetting… DONE!!!
Comment by jm on 22 May 2009:
I have the same problem!
Comment by janak on 29 May 2009:
i am also little confused,
Since usable Subnets = 2^3 – 2, what if i want 7 subnets?
thank you
Comment by Brian on 4 June 2009:
Are IP adresses different from subnet masks? So would a device have an IP address ‘192…’ and ALSO a subnet ‘255…’?
Comment by Gary Z. on 13 July 2009:
so you have 5 groups of 30 , how do you specify which of the 5 groups that a computer/host is in?? Is it via the mask? can you
have a mask that is like this in the last octet? 11001111 ?
Comment by wilfred.kennick on 14 July 2009:
i need that you may send me more information on subneting since i realise the impacts and knowledge that move to the sucess in my assignment best regard kennick
Comment by sachinsonker on 20 July 2009:
thanks for describing subnet in detail
Comment by Sohail Pasha on 28 July 2009:
Its a good article. It should be further extended to Subnet address and Broad cast address. That also involves a simple technique, which I am sure, author of this article is already expert.
God bless you.
Comment by James W on 28 July 2009:
You explanation is the most helpful I have found, thank you very much for explaining so clearly.
Comment by Aslyn on 19 August 2009:
Good!
Comment by Xcuru on 14 September 2009:
nice explanation but u need more example!pls add more
Comment by sachin on 25 September 2009:
Very nicely you have explained basics about subnet masking and IP addressing. However it would be nice if you include examples for each class of networks.
Comment by suresh on 6 October 2009:
simply superb…..!
Comment by TEHSEEN on 9 October 2009:
Very nice explanation,please add some more Examples about prefix, sub netting and subnet mask
thanks
Comment by Naren on 11 October 2009:
hey thanks, but can you please explain some more in the class b, i would really appreciate if you could update on class b with examples too, thanks a lot.
Comment by gaurav on 10 November 2009:
can you please put some light on the reasons of reducing two from 2^n while calculating usable subnets and hosts.
Thank you
Comment by DAMBIO ISAAC CLIVE on 24 November 2009:
Ive been a memeber of cisco systems for a good period of time and i feel delighted to see the above information still being provided to us world wide.
Comment by DAMBIO ISAAC CLIVE on 24 November 2009:
Yeh ithink i can give a clear reason please just give me a sec
Comment by Richard on 24 November 2009:
there seems something obviously wrong here, or am I missing the blindingly obvious…the requirement is for 5 separate networks. The calculation is given as “Usable Subnets = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits assigned”. The need to minus 2 is understandable when it comes to the usable hosts calculation (“Usable Hosts = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits remaining”) because each host needs its own subnet address and broadcast address. But this doesn’t apply when it comes to usable hosts. 2^3 means 8 usable hosts and that’s what you get in this. The range of the final octet for each of the 8 usable hosts, including subnet address and broadcast address, is 0-31, 32-63, 64-95, 96-127, 128-159, 160-191, 192-223, 224-255. So if the school only implements 5 subnets, they have 3 in hand for future needs, not one.
Comment by Richard on 25 November 2009:
IP Subnet-Zero
It’s this option, enabled by default on Cisco see http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/let-me-take-a-stab-at-this-ip-subnet-zero-thing/) that means that the formula specified in the article, “Usable Subnets = (2^n) – 2″, should actually read “Usable Subnets = 2^n”.
Typos in my previous comment by the way: I said ‘this doesn’t apply when it comes to usable hosts’, meant to refer to usable subnets. Same goes for the following 2 references to hosts, sorry for confusion.
Comment by Richard on 25 November 2009:
It’s indeed the most clearly laid out guide to subnetting..but would second Eddy and Gary’s points that talking about N to the power of is unnecessarily confusing, because we are only ever raising the digit * 2 * to power of this or that. If you could update this to take into account IP Subnet Zero, change N to 2 and include some class A & B examples – would be perfect.
Comment by Felix on 18 December 2009:
The explanation on this subject is very good,but need to elaborate on the power of “N” just a bit morer.Thanks
Comment by Blackslaine on 31 December 2009:
Brilliant, just brilliant, it is so simple when you know how. Thanks a million and best of luck to you…
Comment by Moulay on 4 March 2010:
hello all
i’m new at this, i just have one question, the company i work for run out of ip addresses! the current addresses 192.168.107.XXX
they were talking about getting more ips ? so my question is can you buy more ip addresses? and if you change to another Ip class, do you have buy anything as far as ip addresses or just bigger router or switches?
Comment by Sydney Thomas on 18 March 2010:
Hello there,I am so interested to much better about subnetting,could you please provide me with the easy method to do subnetting,esp.Class A subnetting,eg that of IP address 10.2.3.0,Subnet mask 255.255.254.128.
Comment by monger on 9 April 2010:
Nothing more than introduction, does not tell you the nuts and bolts of how to apply the theory to a practical problem.
Comment by yeds on 21 April 2010:
I like it too, but I agree with monger, could there be an example in applying this to a real problem? that would be a great help. thanks for this. more power!
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A properly designed subnet can do wonders for the security and performance of a network. The main idea in subnetting is to divide a network into smaller pieces, which we call subnets. Actually implementing a subnet is typically more difficult than simply using the default subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This usually means that temporary or smaller networks do not need to be subnetted.
Security sees benefit since the IP addresses of the host computers on each subnet are masked by the network address- which means they are invisible to the outside world. We call this network address translation, or NAT. This same technique helps conserve IP addresses, since all hosts on the subnet essentially just use the network IP address during communication.
A Basic Review on Subnetting
If you’re a little rusty on the basics of subnetting, don’t worry. We’ll cover everything you need to know from beginning to end. First thing first: we need to learn about the IP basics.
The current version of internet protocol, or IP, is IP version 4. This IP version allows four octets of data to represent an IP address. Each octet is considered to be a byte, so there are 8 bits in every octet. Note that in binary form you can see that there are 8 numbers, each one consisting of a bit. Finally, each octet is separated by a period, as shown below.
Each IP address is usually represented in decimal form, as seen above as “192.168.2.1”. However, each IP address is actually used by computers in binary form. You may have noticed a huge flaw in IP version 4: the amount of unique IP addresses is limited! To be exact, only 4,294,967,296 unique IP addresses can be created. This may seem like a large number but keep in mind every single device in the world needs a unique IP address to communicate with one another while online.
The IP version 6 protocol was created for when the transition is needed. Most computers don’t use IPv6 just yet, but in the future it will inevitably be used. (In case you were wondering, IPv6 will support 2^128 unique IP addresses… egad!)
Classes
There are three main types of classifications of IP addresses in IPv4: class A, class B, and class C. There are class D and class E types, but those are for multicasting and private uses, respectively. Each class differs by the number of network and host octets it has. Each network octet is for classifying which network a host is on. More network octets will mean more networks! Likewise, each host octet specifies a host that can be assigned to the network. More host octets means more computers per network.
Each class has a certain range that the first octet can be assigned to. This lets us know to what network class any IP belongs to with ease. Review the diagram below to see a visual diagram.
Now the bad news: you must memorize each range for each class if you hope to pass most network exams. Don’t worry! It’s actually easy- just memorize how we get the numbers, not the numbers themselves! All you have to do is remember n^8 (read as “n” to the eighth power), and how many network portions each class has. Review the diagram below.
One final note before we move on. Notice how we didn’t use the IP address 127 for the class A network- that’s because this is loopback address. We use this for testing configurations on the IP network. Also take note that there are reserved IP addresses, such as those for private networks. These IP addresses will not connect to the internet, which is handy if you just want computers to be connected with each other- and not the whole world.
Subnet Masks
A subnet mask is what we use to assign different amounts of networks and hosts to an IP network. It essentially divides the IP address into two parts: the network and host. This is a trading game- the more hosts you have, the fewer networks you will have. And yet the more networks you have, the fewer hosts you will have. Review the class A default subnet masks as shown below.
The class B network will need to recognize two network portions, and two host portions. This can be seen in the below diagram.
Lastly, we have the class C subnet. It is the most commonly used subnet, so pay special attention to it in the upcoming lecture. You can see a diagram of the default subnet below.
We’ve laid Down the Foundation, Let’s Build the House!
We just reviewed the basics of IP addresses and subnet masks. The bad news is, we usually don’t use the default subnet mask at all when we subnet a network! The good news is, learning how to subnet isn’t too hard. It will, however, take some practice.
An Example of Subnetting a Class C Network
Subnetting varies in difficulty, depending on which class you are subnetting. More often than not, you will need to create a subnet for a class C network. A class C network allows for many networks to be created, but not as many hosts. In fact, you can create a hefty 2,097,152 networks- but only 254 hosts per network are allowed.
Let’s say we are subnetting a school’s network. We need 5 separate networks that have 30 computers on each subnet.
First we calculate how many usable subnets we need. Next we will need to determine how many hosts are required. Both of these values can be calculated with the following equations:
Two Important Equations to Remember:
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1. Usable Subnets = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits assigned
2. Usable Hosts = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits remaining
Let’s start with usable subnets. Review the diagram below for a visual example.
If you are wondering what the “-2” part of the equation is for, this is how we account for the two addresses in each subnet we can’t use. We will review what these addresses are for more specifically later on. For now, let’s find out what our usable hosts are!
Alright Already! What’s My Subnet Mask?!
Getting your subnet mask at this point is incredibly easy. Simply take all of your network bits, and add them up. Look at the diagram below for a visual guide.
That’s it! You’re done. You have successfully created a subnet mask that can be used on the school’s network. Keep in mind that every computer must have the subnet mask set in order for them to be on the same network. Also note that since we are using a class C network, the first three octets will always be 255. When subnetting other classes, be sure to keep the network portions in mind.
Closing Comments
Subnetting may not be fun, but it is required for students to know on networking exams. That means you should stay away from subnet calculators until you have grasped the full concept of how to do it yourself. These calculators should only be used as a time saving tool, not a learning tool or way to cheat on homework.
With enough practice, subnetting will become much easier. Class A and Class B networks are a bit trickier, but follow the same example as shown above and it should be quite easy to accomplish.
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Comment by william on 11 March 2008:
i think this article was a great. easy to follow
Comment by guillermo galdames on 21 March 2008:
I have to say….thanks….this article is much more clear and efficient…now I have learn how to make a subnet…!!!yeap!
Comment by GEORGE on 25 May 2008:
I have searched the net and I should say I have not come across an article like this which is so easy to understand and learn the concepts.
cheers
Comment by Hussam on 5 June 2008:
thanks for the lovely article and I want to add that
the amount of IPv6 is 34,028,236,692,093,846,346,337,460,743,177 Unique Ip Address
Comment by padma on 13 June 2008:
This is a very well written article.Easy to follow.I am happy that I came across this.Thank you.
Comment by Yousaf on 14 June 2008:
Now this is a true, efficient, user-friendly, easy and simple way to teach subnetting. I search the whole internet almost but this tutorial is awsome. I appreciate you of publishing these tutorials here. Thanks a ton !!
Comment by eddy on 10 July 2008:
HI,
very nice work,
u really have a smooth way to deliver information, thanks for the clear efforts ur making.
allow me to mention a small note here regarding the use of (N) and (n) , i think replacing N with 2 in the tables would be less confusing while using (N and M) or N and (32-N) in the equation will make it more rational..
all my respect.
and thanks again.
Comment by Dana on 28 August 2008:
This tutorial should be put in a place of honor. The best!!!
Comment by Chris on 3 September 2008:
Thank you, I now have a better understanding of subnet masks.
Chris.
Comment by sophie on 5 September 2008:
Thanx very much!
For sure its a long time since i was looking for this but today you change ma brain.
I really like the way you deliver information/skills, it seems to me very tough to study it in my class n get the concept of subnetting. But today am sure i may even taught someone n get the real meaning of subnetting.
If u don mind can u please give us some more example by using other classes A & B? Am sure you can
Once again thank you very much!! God bless you
Comment by Devendra on 20 September 2008:
The artical gives good information in systematic manner.It will be bit easier to understand with digramatic representation
Comment by Tasnim hafiz on 28 September 2008:
I am totally confused with my first networking course. Unfortunately my exams tomoro, n I foudn this website today…:p if I pass the exam..I will join this community for future:D
Comment by Satheeshiyer on 28 September 2008:
Hey.. Thank you for sharing this superb article.. I have come across many sites.. but couldn’t get the idea of subnetting..
But finally when I came across this, my cheek started to smile a bit.. from nervousness..
Superb Article ………….
Smiling ever!!
Comment by stanlywit on 30 September 2008:
its interesting to see this article ……….how it produces better knowledge who are all in doubt regarding the concept subnetting
Comment by Jelkyes on 4 October 2008:
I can’t believe that people can actually sit to make things easier for their fellow humans like this free. The material is the best I have ever seen on subnet. Continue with the good work.
Comment by nasir sohail on 20 October 2008:
i am cheerful to find this information because it greatly hepled me to understand the lecture i took from my ccna class yesterday , i am really thankful for this infromation
Comment by MCQ on 22 October 2008:
This is really hard worked, labored, very useful article.
Thanks a lot to the administrator. I liked the article and included the link of this article on my site http://www.psexam.com/websites/others/2.html
Comment by Tom on 22 October 2008:
IPv6 blows my mind… Here’s some back-of-the-envelope calculations I’ve made about it:
-If every person had a trillion devices, each with their own unique IP address, and there were a trillion people on the planet, and there were a trillion such worlds, we would still be using only a fraction of the possible IP addresses.
-There are enough IP address to assign every single atom in over 6 trillion kilograms of carbon a unique address.
-Hussam’s number isn’t right. The actual number of unique IP addresses is (taking the 2^128 number to be correct):
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
Note that MS Calculator can’t display the number of digits necessary for this, and Hussam wrote what it showed.
Comment by Gary on 4 November 2008:
Well organized and useful! I wish to point out a pair of unnecessary ambiguities that could be removed to make the presentation even clearer:
“Powers of N” are really powers of 2. Perhaps N is used here for historical reasons? If not, I would replace it with 2.
If keeping “Powers of N” please do not re-use N as a generic variable, such as in the formula 2^n – 2. Any other letter (e.g. x) would work here.
Thanks
Comment by Baron Von Cisco on 7 November 2008:
Thoroughly good article, clean cut and precise. However, comments like “Subnetting may not be fun, but it is required for students to know on networking exams. That means you should stay away from subnet calculators until you have grasped the full concept of how to do it yourself.”
Although I completely understand the need for students to understand how to subnet, it is fickle to say the above. What benefit is it to not use a calculator. If your stuck in the situation where you need to create subnets then the quickest and easiest solution is to use the calculator. Its good to know manually how to do it but when was the last time you sat a maths exam without a calculator ?
Comment by PaRaNa on 24 November 2008:
Great article ,Thanks for this. But you have shown class C IP blog only on the your examples. Anyway, all of them easy already.
Comment by chris on 4 December 2008:
im pretty sure that you can contary to as you mention use all ones or zeros for the subnet portion in a network so there is no need to subtract two when calculating. you can’t use all ones in the host portion though. cant tell you the rfc. well written. great way of plotting it out.
Comment by shadab on 3 February 2009:
Explanation is too good… easy to understand. Thanks keep up the good work.
Comment by Roxane on 6 March 2009:
You know, I am speechless. I searched allll over the web for the right explaination. Man you did a great job. It went straight to the point. Now I can do this with confidence. Thank you very much.
Comment by saul on 9 March 2009:
i totally found this enlightening. thanx. God bless
Comment by melvit on 12 March 2009:
hi i liked the contents of this article.they are very satisfactory.!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Rudy on 30 April 2009:
Love it
This subnetting explanation was package in the most simple way yet so easy to understand. I wish I could get more info like this..
Thanks for the good work.
Comment by zild on 8 May 2009:
Hi, Thanks for the tutorial
Comment by Safinatu on 11 May 2009:
Hi, thanks for the tutorial, it really helped me.
Comment by 1di0T on 15 May 2009:
Sorry for being a dumb…
I am confuse on the example problem:
Number of Subnets Needed: 5
What power of 2 allows five networks?
——————————————-
Power of N: N7 N6 N5 N4 N3 N2 N1 N0
——————————————-
>>>>Equals: 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
——————————————-
Since 1 + 2 + 4 = 7, we can use N3 (This is where I got confused)???
You said we can use N3 but the one you’ve encircled is N2 = 4
and 1 + 2 + 4 is on N2 N1 and N0 and not N3.
Usable Subnets = 2^3 – 2 (On this part it appears you’ve used N3)
Usable Subnets = 8-2 = 6
I know that 8 > 5, the reason why you used 1+2+4
What power of 2 allows five networks? -> In between 8 – 4
Crap I’ve answered my question…
I think this is still worth posting for future confused like me to be enlightened.. Lol
Comment by Karl on 18 May 2009:
Very good!!! This is the best tutorial I have read on the internet.
Subnetting… DONE!!!
Comment by jm on 22 May 2009:
I have the same problem!
Comment by janak on 29 May 2009:
i am also little confused,
Since usable Subnets = 2^3 – 2, what if i want 7 subnets?
thank you
Comment by Brian on 4 June 2009:
Are IP adresses different from subnet masks? So would a device have an IP address ‘192…’ and ALSO a subnet ‘255…’?
Comment by Gary Z. on 13 July 2009:
so you have 5 groups of 30 , how do you specify which of the 5 groups that a computer/host is in?? Is it via the mask? can you
have a mask that is like this in the last octet? 11001111 ?
Comment by wilfred.kennick on 14 July 2009:
i need that you may send me more information on subneting since i realise the impacts and knowledge that move to the sucess in my assignment best regard kennick
Comment by sachinsonker on 20 July 2009:
thanks for describing subnet in detail
Comment by Sohail Pasha on 28 July 2009:
Its a good article. It should be further extended to Subnet address and Broad cast address. That also involves a simple technique, which I am sure, author of this article is already expert.
God bless you.
Comment by James W on 28 July 2009:
You explanation is the most helpful I have found, thank you very much for explaining so clearly.
Comment by Aslyn on 19 August 2009:
Good!
Comment by Xcuru on 14 September 2009:
nice explanation but u need more example!pls add more
Comment by sachin on 25 September 2009:
Very nicely you have explained basics about subnet masking and IP addressing. However it would be nice if you include examples for each class of networks.
Comment by suresh on 6 October 2009:
simply superb…..!
Comment by TEHSEEN on 9 October 2009:
Very nice explanation,please add some more Examples about prefix, sub netting and subnet mask
thanks
Comment by Naren on 11 October 2009:
hey thanks, but can you please explain some more in the class b, i would really appreciate if you could update on class b with examples too, thanks a lot.
Comment by gaurav on 10 November 2009:
can you please put some light on the reasons of reducing two from 2^n while calculating usable subnets and hosts.
Thank you
Comment by DAMBIO ISAAC CLIVE on 24 November 2009:
Ive been a memeber of cisco systems for a good period of time and i feel delighted to see the above information still being provided to us world wide.
Comment by DAMBIO ISAAC CLIVE on 24 November 2009:
Yeh ithink i can give a clear reason please just give me a sec
Comment by Richard on 24 November 2009:
there seems something obviously wrong here, or am I missing the blindingly obvious…the requirement is for 5 separate networks. The calculation is given as “Usable Subnets = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits assigned”. The need to minus 2 is understandable when it comes to the usable hosts calculation (“Usable Hosts = (2^n) – 2 , where N = power of bits remaining”) because each host needs its own subnet address and broadcast address. But this doesn’t apply when it comes to usable hosts. 2^3 means 8 usable hosts and that’s what you get in this. The range of the final octet for each of the 8 usable hosts, including subnet address and broadcast address, is 0-31, 32-63, 64-95, 96-127, 128-159, 160-191, 192-223, 224-255. So if the school only implements 5 subnets, they have 3 in hand for future needs, not one.
Comment by Richard on 25 November 2009:
IP Subnet-Zero
It’s this option, enabled by default on Cisco see http://www.itdojo.com/blog/2009/02/let-me-take-a-stab-at-this-ip-subnet-zero-thing/) that means that the formula specified in the article, “Usable Subnets = (2^n) – 2″, should actually read “Usable Subnets = 2^n”.
Typos in my previous comment by the way: I said ‘this doesn’t apply when it comes to usable hosts’, meant to refer to usable subnets. Same goes for the following 2 references to hosts, sorry for confusion.
Comment by Richard on 25 November 2009:
It’s indeed the most clearly laid out guide to subnetting..but would second Eddy and Gary’s points that talking about N to the power of is unnecessarily confusing, because we are only ever raising the digit * 2 * to power of this or that. If you could update this to take into account IP Subnet Zero, change N to 2 and include some class A & B examples – would be perfect.
Comment by Felix on 18 December 2009:
The explanation on this subject is very good,but need to elaborate on the power of “N” just a bit morer.Thanks
Comment by Blackslaine on 31 December 2009:
Brilliant, just brilliant, it is so simple when you know how. Thanks a million and best of luck to you…
Comment by Moulay on 4 March 2010:
hello all
i’m new at this, i just have one question, the company i work for run out of ip addresses! the current addresses 192.168.107.XXX
they were talking about getting more ips ? so my question is can you buy more ip addresses? and if you change to another Ip class, do you have buy anything as far as ip addresses or just bigger router or switches?
Comment by Sydney Thomas on 18 March 2010:
Hello there,I am so interested to much better about subnetting,could you please provide me with the easy method to do subnetting,esp.Class A subnetting,eg that of IP address 10.2.3.0,Subnet mask 255.255.254.128.
Comment by monger on 9 April 2010:
Nothing more than introduction, does not tell you the nuts and bolts of how to apply the theory to a practical problem.
Comment by yeds on 21 April 2010:
I like it too, but I agree with monger, could there be an example in applying this to a real problem? that would be a great help. thanks for this. more power!
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Lithium ion battery sales set to rev up thanks mainly to e-bikes and scooters
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scooter, e-bike,lithium ion, ChinaInterest in electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids has come on strong over the past year or so, pushed relentlessly by carmakers promoting a newer, greener generation of transportation. As the Chevy Volt, Ford Transit Connect Electric, Nissan Leaf and others trickle out into the marketplace over the next year, it's clear that they will go only as far as their lithium ion batteries can take them (which right now isn't all that far).
Help may be on the way, per a report released earlier this month by Boston's Lux Research projecting a massive wave in spending on energy storage technologies over the next five years. More specifically, the firm predicts the market for batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells for transportation as well as storage, distributed generation, and transmission and distribution technologies for the power grid will more than double from $21.4 billion in 2010 to $44.4 billion in 2015.
The market for electric vehicle energy storage technology will nearly double from $7.7 billion this year to $14.5 billion in 2015, and batteries will be a major part of this growth. Surprisingly, electronic bikes (e-bikes) and scooters, as opposed to plug-in hybrids and EVs, will drive the biggest growth for vehicle batteries in the next five years, lead author and analyst Jacob Grose said in a press release. Sales of e-bike and scooter batteries are expected to surge from $6.4 billion in 2010 to $10.9 billion five years from now.
Whereas lead-acid batteries are most common today in transportation devices (they're found in 93 percent of China's e-bikes, for example), demand for lithium ion batteries will grow nearly three times faster than for lead-acid moving forward.
That's good news for those interested in buying a plug-in hybrid or EV because lithium ion battery performance will need to improve rapidly to make these vehicles appealing to all but the most hardcore greenies. Chevy says the first-generation Volt (a gas/electric hybrid) will travel about 65 kilometers on a fully charged battery before the gas engine kicks in. The Transit Connect Electric and Leaf (both fully electric) are expected to run for about 130 kilometers and 160 kilometers, respectively, on a full battery.
The truth, however, is that no one really knows exactly how long these batteries will last in real-world driving conditions, when air conditioning, portable GPS units and other electrical devices are competing with the motor for battery juice. Nor do the car companies know how much a battery's performance will degrade over time, after it's been charged and recharged hundreds of times. With most of these vehicles taking anywhere from four to eight hours to fully re-charge (at least until there is a fast-charging infrastructure), some in the auto industry admit that fully-electric vehicles might be better suited as a family's second car, the one that runs around town as opposed to the primary vehicle gets its owners to and from work in the suburbs.
To change this, money needs to go to research that can improve lithium ion batteries' ability to rapidly charge and discharge as well as stay safe under intense operating conditions, all while lowering the costs of the batteries.
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jerryd at 07:33 PM on 03/31/10
There is so much misinformation here I don't know where to start.
Ebikes are not going to lithium until the price drops by 70% which will take yrs. Most lithium now goes to electronics, not EV's or utilities which have almost none. How many are going to pay $1k for a bike battery when you can buy a lead one for $100?
In fact most lithium battery companies have no orders. And EV's are being done by just a couple companies and the car companies will make their own soon cutting even that demand. Plus it will be yrs before enough EV's. hybrids are built to use any real amount of batteries.
Supercaps and fuelcells are expensive toys that don't make economic sense for much of anything.
Utilities won't use them or lithium as far too expensive and will use molten salt or lead instead as 1/3 the cost.
I know these things because I build custom EV's and have tracked these for 30 yrs.
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oldvic at 06:55 AM on 04/01/10
"How many are going to pay $1k for a bike battery when you can buy a lead one for $100?"
Er... I did. A simple calculation showed me that, taking only into account the fuel savings, I could pay for the bicycle in 2 to 3 years. I'm leaving aside reduced maintenance and wear costs for the car, and not taking into account improved health and other side benefits. Even if I have to replace the battery within that period, the savings from the car's maintenance will more than pay for it.
While I agree that battery prices need to come down, it pays to do a little math, and I suspect that the result will often be on the side of the bike.
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JamesDavis at 08:36 AM on 04/01/10
All this old technology is a stalling ploy by the auto manufacturers so the oil companies can make more billions of dollars profit. If they would just do a little research on SciAm's magazine's search engine on liquit salt and liquid metal batteries, they would solve their problem and make their customers happier.
"oldvis" is correct, "do the math" and do the research and you will discover that that 1k battery, if it is added into the price of the car, and you can bet it will be, will pay for itself in less than five years. Your auto insurance company, since we are forced to have auto insurance, can insure you battery and replace it for you up until your car reaches 50 to 75,000 miles, or the auto manufacturer can do that like they do with their drivetrain and other critical parts of the car.
Either way, this problem with electric cars can be solved with a little simple thinking.
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bolton at 10:02 AM on 04/01/10
i hold lithium stock, and i recommend you do to
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taerog at 04:38 PM on 04/01/10
Here is another angle (one of many) that does muddy the field a bit and make it not so black and white.
"most lithium now goes to electronics" - yes it does, in the form of small batteries.
" fact most lithium battery companies have no orders" this may be debatable since it is a growth area making good money. sure it will become saturated at some point.
But a missing hunk of information is that all of the lithium battery manufacturing in the US and most in the world is for small cells for small applications and not the size needed for larger uses. Thus larger lithium batteries are much more expensive then need be, having to being made in smaller lots (loosening the mass production discounts) or having to be thrown together with 100's of smaller cells which again has unwanted costs and side effects.
The ramp up of large cell lithium batteries may be what is needed . . . or not . .
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Biodiversivist at 12:57 AM on 04/02/10
I've been using a set of A1223 batteries to power an electric bike for years now and they are still good as new. The technology is here. We just need to get the price down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKvP9wWrlY
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Wayne Williamson at 04:05 PM on 04/03/10
biodiversivist...cool link...although something in motion would be nice;-)...plus as you say the price is very high...even with a factor of 10 reduction it is still high...
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Mar 31, 2010 03:38 PM in Technology | 7 comments
Lithium ion battery sales set to rev up thanks mainly to e-bikes and scooters
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scooter, e-bike,lithium ion, ChinaInterest in electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids has come on strong over the past year or so, pushed relentlessly by carmakers promoting a newer, greener generation of transportation. As the Chevy Volt, Ford Transit Connect Electric, Nissan Leaf and others trickle out into the marketplace over the next year, it's clear that they will go only as far as their lithium ion batteries can take them (which right now isn't all that far).
Help may be on the way, per a report released earlier this month by Boston's Lux Research projecting a massive wave in spending on energy storage technologies over the next five years. More specifically, the firm predicts the market for batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells for transportation as well as storage, distributed generation, and transmission and distribution technologies for the power grid will more than double from $21.4 billion in 2010 to $44.4 billion in 2015.
The market for electric vehicle energy storage technology will nearly double from $7.7 billion this year to $14.5 billion in 2015, and batteries will be a major part of this growth. Surprisingly, electronic bikes (e-bikes) and scooters, as opposed to plug-in hybrids and EVs, will drive the biggest growth for vehicle batteries in the next five years, lead author and analyst Jacob Grose said in a press release. Sales of e-bike and scooter batteries are expected to surge from $6.4 billion in 2010 to $10.9 billion five years from now.
Whereas lead-acid batteries are most common today in transportation devices (they're found in 93 percent of China's e-bikes, for example), demand for lithium ion batteries will grow nearly three times faster than for lead-acid moving forward.
That's good news for those interested in buying a plug-in hybrid or EV because lithium ion battery performance will need to improve rapidly to make these vehicles appealing to all but the most hardcore greenies. Chevy says the first-generation Volt (a gas/electric hybrid) will travel about 65 kilometers on a fully charged battery before the gas engine kicks in. The Transit Connect Electric and Leaf (both fully electric) are expected to run for about 130 kilometers and 160 kilometers, respectively, on a full battery.
The truth, however, is that no one really knows exactly how long these batteries will last in real-world driving conditions, when air conditioning, portable GPS units and other electrical devices are competing with the motor for battery juice. Nor do the car companies know how much a battery's performance will degrade over time, after it's been charged and recharged hundreds of times. With most of these vehicles taking anywhere from four to eight hours to fully re-charge (at least until there is a fast-charging infrastructure), some in the auto industry admit that fully-electric vehicles might be better suited as a family's second car, the one that runs around town as opposed to the primary vehicle gets its owners to and from work in the suburbs.
To change this, money needs to go to research that can improve lithium ion batteries' ability to rapidly charge and discharge as well as stay safe under intense operating conditions, all while lowering the costs of the batteries.
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jerryd at 07:33 PM on 03/31/10
There is so much misinformation here I don't know where to start.
Ebikes are not going to lithium until the price drops by 70% which will take yrs. Most lithium now goes to electronics, not EV's or utilities which have almost none. How many are going to pay $1k for a bike battery when you can buy a lead one for $100?
In fact most lithium battery companies have no orders. And EV's are being done by just a couple companies and the car companies will make their own soon cutting even that demand. Plus it will be yrs before enough EV's. hybrids are built to use any real amount of batteries.
Supercaps and fuelcells are expensive toys that don't make economic sense for much of anything.
Utilities won't use them or lithium as far too expensive and will use molten salt or lead instead as 1/3 the cost.
I know these things because I build custom EV's and have tracked these for 30 yrs.
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oldvic at 06:55 AM on 04/01/10
"How many are going to pay $1k for a bike battery when you can buy a lead one for $100?"
Er... I did. A simple calculation showed me that, taking only into account the fuel savings, I could pay for the bicycle in 2 to 3 years. I'm leaving aside reduced maintenance and wear costs for the car, and not taking into account improved health and other side benefits. Even if I have to replace the battery within that period, the savings from the car's maintenance will more than pay for it.
While I agree that battery prices need to come down, it pays to do a little math, and I suspect that the result will often be on the side of the bike.
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JamesDavis at 08:36 AM on 04/01/10
All this old technology is a stalling ploy by the auto manufacturers so the oil companies can make more billions of dollars profit. If they would just do a little research on SciAm's magazine's search engine on liquit salt and liquid metal batteries, they would solve their problem and make their customers happier.
"oldvis" is correct, "do the math" and do the research and you will discover that that 1k battery, if it is added into the price of the car, and you can bet it will be, will pay for itself in less than five years. Your auto insurance company, since we are forced to have auto insurance, can insure you battery and replace it for you up until your car reaches 50 to 75,000 miles, or the auto manufacturer can do that like they do with their drivetrain and other critical parts of the car.
Either way, this problem with electric cars can be solved with a little simple thinking.
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bolton at 10:02 AM on 04/01/10
i hold lithium stock, and i recommend you do to
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taerog at 04:38 PM on 04/01/10
Here is another angle (one of many) that does muddy the field a bit and make it not so black and white.
"most lithium now goes to electronics" - yes it does, in the form of small batteries.
" fact most lithium battery companies have no orders" this may be debatable since it is a growth area making good money. sure it will become saturated at some point.
But a missing hunk of information is that all of the lithium battery manufacturing in the US and most in the world is for small cells for small applications and not the size needed for larger uses. Thus larger lithium batteries are much more expensive then need be, having to being made in smaller lots (loosening the mass production discounts) or having to be thrown together with 100's of smaller cells which again has unwanted costs and side effects.
The ramp up of large cell lithium batteries may be what is needed . . . or not . .
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Biodiversivist at 12:57 AM on 04/02/10
I've been using a set of A1223 batteries to power an electric bike for years now and they are still good as new. The technology is here. We just need to get the price down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKvP9wWrlY
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Wayne Williamson at 04:05 PM on 04/03/10
biodiversivist...cool link...although something in motion would be nice;-)...plus as you say the price is very high...even with a factor of 10 reduction it is still high...
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Category: Wind Energy
Plastic Fiber Solar Cell Design
Wake Forest researchers work to improve the solar energy production from cells and patent their cell configuration. ...
... "These new solar cells are made from millions of miniscule plastic fibers that can collect sunlight at oblique angles – even when the sun is rising and setting. Flat-cell technology captures light primarily when the sun is directly above. " ...
Via Wake Forest: Efficient, inexpensive fiber-based solar cells
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Category: Solar
Carbon Solar Cell using Graphene Sheet
Indiana University researchers use carbon in the form of graphene to develop inexpensive solar cells. Their research will continue to refine the prototypes focusing on the cell efficiency. ... [Professor Li]
... "Li and his collaborators tried a different idea. By attaching a semi-rigid, semi-flexible, three-dimensional sidegroup to the sides of the graphene, they were able to keep graphene sheets as big as 168 carbon atoms from adhering to one another. With this method, they could make the graphene sheets from smaller molecules (bottom-up) so that they are uniform in size. To the scientists' knowledge, it is the biggest stable graphene sheet ever made with the bottom-up approach. " ...
Via Indiana University: Carbon-based solar cell
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Category: Solar
US Gov't Creates Significant Waste with Printing that is Not Needed
paperlA recent report from the Washington Times shows that a significant amount of printing by US Govt employees is never needed ... it is thrown out or recycled. Wow - 1/3 of all printed paper is wasted !!
" .... Washington Times reports that a full third of the printing performed by U.S. government employees is instantly tossed out or recycled."
"... high time government ... takes the lead from businesses that have their printing costs under control. ... Duplex printing is only part of the story. ... "
"... asking these kinds of questions before they click ‘Print’: ... Is it vital that I have a hard copy of this right now? ... Have I run the electronic file by my colleagues first? ... Does the item I am about to print have to be “perfect”?"
How about you? Do you really need to print everything you do print? Can you print 2 - sided ?
Via: ZDNet.com LINK
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Category: Waste Reduction
April 07, 2010
DC Metrobus natural gas fueled
Washington DC Metrobus runs on natural gas as fuel.
Natural gas powers DC Metro Bus
DC Metro bus runs on natural gas near Dupont Circle turning onto New Hampshire Ave.
Natural gas transit buses (PDF).
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Category: Washington, DC
China's Off Shore Wind Farm
off shore turbine
China is looking to use off shore wind farms to help power the country ... with a significant part of the population on the eastern shore this may prove to better than bringing coal generated power in from the west of China.
China will " ... bring online ... its first offshore wind farm, a 102-megawatt array located in the Yangtze River delta ..."
"... latest in a series of moves ... to pad its lead as the world’s largest market for wind power. ..."
" ... Azure International predicts that China will install 514 megawatts of offshore wind over the next three to four years. By 2010, ... expected to invest $100 billion to install up to 30,000 megawatts ..."
Via: SmartPlanet LINK
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Category: Wind Energy
April 06, 2010
Heat Storage Leadership
Heat storage technology has potential to significantly impact climate change. The Dutch are seen as leaders in this space. ...
... "Dutch are currently the leaders in the creative deployment of heat storage methods. They store heat underneath roads in the summer and then pump it out again in the winter. And in my talk I mentioned a community in Canada called Drake’s Landing, where they have a community heat storage which collects heat from solar hot water panels ... " ...
Via MIT: Renewable Energy Leaders
Reference:
Seasonal Heat Storage.
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Category: Energy Innovation
April 04, 2010
Sustainable Housing in Sonoma, California
Sustainable houseFolks in Sonoma, California are working to design and refine a Passive House ... but what exactly is a passive home?
" ... a building that has a minimal impact on its surroundings. ... as systems unto themselves. ... well-insulated — virtually airtight — ... most of the “heat” ... comes from the humans and appliances and other stuff running in them. Heat exchangers are used to circulate it. ... in the United States ... focus has been certifying according the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED framework ...."
Via: SmartPlanet LINK
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Category: Sustainability
Greening the Hotel Room
Do you hate to waste energy at home? How about when you travel? Some travelers are a little less energy efficient on the road then at home. Some hotels are helping to change that ...
I remember when I was in Singapore in 1990 and the hotel had a neat way to save energy. If you wanted the lights and A/C to work in the room you had to put the key chain (actually a block of plastic with metal at the bottom) in a slot by the door. This completed a circuit that "turned the power on" in the room. And when you left ... you took the key and off went the power.
Starwood Hotels Element brand has some interesting ideas to make your hotel room a little greener ...Element logo
" ... testing ... energy management system ... that curbs heating and air conditioning usage - the guestroom's biggest energy hogs, ... is invisible to the average customer and doesn't require guests to alter their behavior ... "
" ... motion- and heat-sensitive sensors ... detect when people leave their rooms or fall asleep inside, he said. ... automatically trims heating or air conditioning ... cuts energy use without radically altering the temperature ..."
" ... cut heating and air conditioning use by 47%, ... equivalent of about 50,000 pounds of CO2 emissions or about 2,500 gallons of gas ... "
Via: USA Today LINK
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Category: Green Business Practices
April 03, 2010
Most Green Dream Job
Dream jobs has a green winner ...
... "Most Green - Dina ... Global Paper Waste Reduction Agent " ...
Via Simply Hired Blog: Winners of Dream Job Contest
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Category: Waste Reduction
Think Laterally to Solar Energy Breakthrough
Creativity and new thinking is needed to drive innovation in the renewable energy space. ... [Nice use case drawing for creative thinking]
... "He has also designed solar panels on top of cars and umbrellas, all things that he said are possible and can benefit the world. He urged students to use lateral thinking, a re-imagined creation of almost anything, as a means to solve traditional problems with a nontraditional approach. " ...
Via The Pendulum, Elon University: Think laterally, fantastically
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Category: Research
April 02, 2010
Cool Green Cities
Green city list via HowStuffWorks. Includes US and European cities that are embracing green lifestyles, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.
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Category: Green Building
April 01, 2010
Pearl Jam Carbon Footprint Offset with Tree Planting in Puget Sound
Pearl Jam partners with Cascade Land Conservancy to plant thirty-plus acres of native trees and plants in communities around Puget Sound to offset the carbon footprint of its world tour. ... [Pearl Jam on Tour]
... "Pearl Jam’s donation of $210,000 will fund the urban forestry project and mitigate more than 7,000 metric tons of carbon. Conservation International chief adviser, climate and water, Michael Totten estimates Pearl Jam’s actual carbon emissions from its 32-date 2009 tour to be 5,474 metric tons of CO2. The band will also track, calculate and mitigate its carbon for their current 2010 tour. " ...
Via Cascade Land Conservancy: Pearl Jam Mitigates CO2 from World Tour
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Category: Carbon Footprint
Solar Boat Launch
The largest solar boat launches in Germany. ... [Solar Boat]
... "solar-powered boat made a gentle plop as it was lowered by a huge crane on to the waters of the Kiel firth in northern Germany today ... " ...
Via Guardian: Solar-powered boat Türanor
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Category: Solar
Green Hornet Biofuel Jet
[President Barack Obama looks at an F-18 Green Hornet jet, a biofuel powered fighter jet, Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.]
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Category: Airplanes
Fuel Economy Standards CAFE reduce GHG emissions through 2016
U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have aligned on new federal rules that establish national greenhouse gas emissions standards that significantly increase the fuel [CAFE fuel economy standards] economy of all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States. Ultimately, the consumer will benefit from savings on a 2016 model year car of over $3,000 through the life of the vehicle. The country will save approximately 1.8 billion barrels of oil and eliminate almost a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. ...
... "Today’s final rules, issued by DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and EPA, establish increasingly stringent fuel economy standards under NHTSA’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy program and greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act for 2012 through 2016 model-year vehicles. Starting with 2012 model year vehicles, the rules together require automakers to improve fleet-wide fuel economy and reduce fleet-wide greenhouse gas emissions by approximately five percent every year. NHTSA has established fuel economy standards that strengthen each year reaching an estimated 34.1 mpg for the combined industry-wide fleet for model year 2016. " ...
Via United States Department of Transportation: Aggressive National Standards for Fuel Economy and First Ever Greenhouse Gas Emission Levels
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Category: Automotive
Earth Week Sustainability Fair highlight practices
at SUNY Oswego to build awareness among the student body and community. ...
... "The first Sustainability Fair on April 21 will offer campus and community members a chance to see and test drive a fuel cell vehicle and view an electric sports car, a wood-to-gas truck, a Smart car and hybrids. Visitors will meet vendors of green products and services, from organic farming and gardening to solar and other energy contracting to ecofriendly cleaning and more. " ...
Via SUNY Oswego: Earth Week Events
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US Air Force Test Bio-Jet Fuel in A10C
Bio fuel is being looked at for cars and commercial jets ... now the USAF is looking to see if J8 jet fuel can be supplemented or even replaced by bio-jet fuel.
"... Air Force consumes 2.4 billion gallons of jet fuel each year ... 40th Flight Test Squadron is on a mission to change that. ... climbing into the cockpits of jets filled, in part, with alternative fuels."A-1o jet
" ... A-10C Thunderbolt II took off from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida powered by Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (HRJ) and JP-8 (Jet Propellant 8, the military standard and kerosene-based). ... mission is being considered a success: a fighter jet can fly on a synthetic fuel blend."
Via: SmartPlanet LINK
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Category: Biofuels
March 31, 2010
Ford Microsoft energy management collaboration targets electric vehicles
Ford teams up with Microsoft to integrate the Hohm energy management system into its future electric vehicle products. [Ford Microsoft Hohm for management of Electric Vehicles] Electric vehicle owners will benefit from information provided through Hohm and be enabled in their transition to this type of transportation. ...
... "The two companies are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker announcing the use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year. Hohm will help owners determine when and how to most efficiently and affordably recharge battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles. It also should help utility companies manage the added demands of electric vehicles on the electric grid. " ...
Via Ford: Microsoft Hohm as platform for Ford’s electric vehicles
[Ford Microsoft Hohm Collaboration]
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Category: Electric Vehicle
Plastic Solar Cells
Princeton researchers see role for plastic electronics to reduce cost of solar cells in future. ...
... "By allowing plastic solar cells to be manufactured using low-cost printing techniques and by replacing ITO as the primary [Princeton research has solar energy impact] conducting material, the plastics the team developed hold potential for lowering the cost of solar panels. Currently, the electricity generated by plastic solar cells is collected by a transparent metal conductor made of ITO. The conductor must be transparent so that sunlight can pass through it to the materials in solar cells that absorb the light energy. " ...
Via Princeton University: Plastic electronics integrated into solar panels
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Arizona Tokyo Solar Research Partnership
Arizona State University and the University of Tokyo, Japan will partner on collaborative research to advance solar energy technology. The partnership is planned for three years and will involve collaboration on research, education, symposia, and talent. ... [Solar energy research partnership]
... "The University of Tokyo is rated by the Global University Ranking organization and others as one the leading universities and research institutions in Asia, and it is the leading solar-energy research institution in Japan. " ...
Via Arizona State University: Solar energy technology research
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Category: Arizona
March 30, 2010
Canvas Dreams - Sustainable Web Hosting
Canvawind powers Dreams is a green sustainable web host service based in Oregon. They are green from their source of power to their business practices.
"... is a sustainable Web host based in Portland, Oregon. ... firstt Web hosting company in the Pacific Northwest to use 100% clean wind energy, generated locally by Portland General Electric ... commitment to sustainable practices ... a sustainability program, including a reduction in waste and energy usage, responsible electronics and plastic
Canvas Dreams logo
recycling, telecommuting and carpooling, ..."
Via: Canvas Dreams Sustainable Web Hosting LINK
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Category: Green-Data-Center
Kaiser Permanente California Solar Power Systems
Kaiser Permanente collaborates with Recurrent Energy to implement fifteen megawatts of solar power at fifteen California facilities by 2011. ... [Kaiser Permanente Solar Power Program]
... "Installing solar panels on Kaiser Permanente hospitals, medical offices, and other buildings is the first part of a larger plan to use onsite renewable energy sources to power Kaiser Permanente’s buildings nationwide. A focus on renewable energy sources is just one aspect of the organization’s industry-leading work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the use of harmful chemicals, and promote sustainable food choices. " ...
Via Kaiser Permanente: California Facilities Solar Power
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Category: California
California Waste Treatment Plant Implements Solar Power
City of Auburn wastewater treatment plant will be fully powered by a 680 kilowatt solar power system, installed by Pacific Power Management. ...
... "The new photovoltaic system will consist of more than 3,300 panels that will be installed on single-axis ground mount trackers at the plant. The city entered into a 20 year contract and will buy power from PPM, as if PPM were a utility company. The city won’t pay for the installation of the panels. " ...
Via Pacific Power Management: Auburn California Wastewater Treatment Plant Solar Power
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Category: California
Project Brightfield Solar
Chevron Technology Ventures’ Project Brightfield will leverage AboundSolar photovoltaics to pilot commercial scale ground mount installation. ...
... "The ground-mount facility built on land in Bakersfield, CA formerly occupied by a refinery, has a nameplate capacity of 190kW and is projected to produce more than 300 MWh per year. The array of Abound Solar’s AB1 modules comprises one of the largest components of Chevron’s Project Brightfield, a test facility to compare the performance of multiple emerging solar technology products. " ...
Via Abound Solar: 190kW Photovoltaic Installation
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Category: Solar
Seville solar power tower
Insights into the Spanish solar power tower ...
... "the tower has 624 heliostats, or giant mirrors, which reflect the sun’s rays into a receiver at the top of the tower. The receiver is similar to giant boiler, creating steam ... " ...
Via BYU-Hawaii: Power Tower in Spain
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Category: Spain
March 29, 2010
Besam - Eco Friendly Products from an Eco Friendly Company
automatic sliding door
While at the National Geographic Museum in DC I noticed that their entrance doors are made by Besam and were marked as "low energy power operated door".
Many businesses are reluctant to not have the door always open to make the store more inviting and easier for customers to come in - this wastes tremendous amounts of energy and money in heating and cooling costs. besam logo
" ... Besam strives to manufacture ... automatic entrances in a manner that limits their impact on the environment, ... "
" ...study conducted .... energy use and customer counts were monitored before and after the installation of Besam Holland’s “Green Door” ..."
" ... cost of heating the shop was reduced by 43%. ... there was virtually no decrease in the number of customers entering the store after the installation of the automatic sliding door."
Automated doors have been shown to both save energy and keep store traffic at high levels.
Via: Besam.com LINK
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Category: Energy Innovation
Smart Meters provide data for analysis and benchmarking of efficiency trends
Stadtwerke Erding implements GE smart grid technology to enable homeowners in Germany to become more aware of their energy consumption and efficiency impacts. ...
... "The smart meters are connected to a central office for analysis and planning via a data concentrator, providing data to optimize usage efficiency and minimizing waste. Benchmarking data from last year will contribute to emissions and efficiency programs in 2010 and beyond. " ...
Via Yahoo! Finance: Smart Grid Technology in Germany
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Category: Smart Energy Grid
March 28, 2010
Minnesota Solar Decathlon ICON House Available for Sale
University of Minnesota Solar Decathlon entry, the ICON house, is coming up for sale. ... [ICON solar house in Washington DC for the Solar Decathlon]
... "The 550-square-foot home, which took fifth place overall (out of 20 teams) in October's Solar Decathlon (a DOE-sponsored contest that challenges universities from around the globe to design and construct the most efficient and appealing sun-powered dwelling), is known as the ICON Solar House due to its classic gabled roof design.
It was designed and built by a consortium of professionals and students in the U of M's Institute of Technology, College of Design and College of Continuing Education. Minimum bid on the house will be $200,000. " ...
Via University of Minnesota: Solar house available for purchase
The ICON house deploys LED lighting, graywater recycling for drip irrigation, and natural light daylighting.
[University of Minnesota Gophers Solar Decathlon House]
[ICON Solar House]
[ICON house solar roof]
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April 18, 2010
China BIPV Solar
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Posted by Green Tech at 11:02 AM | Permalink | Digg this post | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Category: BIPV - building integrated PV
April 16, 2010
Solar photovoltatics mount on geo membranes
Biosphere 2 will showcase the deployment of solar panels on its geomembranes, which could be leveraged on mining and landfill operations. ...
... "The new solar panels are mounted at a 50-degree angle on geomembranes, the kind that are usually utilized at landfills or mine tailings to prevent dust and water pollution. " ...
Via Arizona Daily Wildcat: Earth Day event, Biosphere 2
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Category: Photovoltaics
Solar internships develop emerging leader
College student is recognized with award to further his development as a green technology leader. ... [Recognizing our emerging renewable energy leaders]
... "He spent last summer at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researching solar cells under a German government fellowship for American students. Before arriving at Stanford in 2007, Sivaram spent a summer working on thin-film photovoltaics at Nanosolar Inc., a San Jose company that makes solar electricity panels specifically designed and developed for solar power plants. " ...
Via Stanford: 2010 Truman Scholar
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Category: Education
April 15, 2010
New MacBook Pro Energy Efficiency
Updated MacBooks include improvements that increase energy efficiency through hardware and software optimizations. ... [New Apple MacBook Pro is more energy efficient than previous model]
... "And yet the 320M, despite being more muscular (it provides an 80% performance gain over the 9400M), is 40% more energy efficient. That boosts the battery life of the laptops as much as three hours ... " ...
Via BusinessWeek, GigaOm: New MacBooks Shine
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Category: Apple
Queensland Solar Micro Grid
The University of Queensland deploys powerful array of photovoltaic panels to improve its carbon footprint and participate in the build out of a solar micro-grid. ... [University of Queensland solar project]
... "The new project, to be located on three buildings at UQ's St Lucia campus, will feature a 1.2 MW solar photovoltaic installation capable of producing 1750 MWh of electricity a year. This will save approximately 1750 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, which is equivalent to taking 335 cars off the roads each year. " ...
Via The University of Queensland: UQ goes solar
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Category: Australia
April 14, 2010
Solar art inspires project
Art renderings will inspire future solar photovoltaic installation. ...
... "Probably only the fact that they are the inspirations for designs submitted by three internationally renowned artists, finalists in a UB-sponsored public art competition for a solar installation to be constructed on the university’s North Campus in partnership with the New York Power Authority (NYPA). " ...
Via SUNY at Buffalo: Vision for solar installation
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Category: Solar
April 13, 2010
Dow Chem Solar Shingle Technology Availability
Dow solar shingles should begin to reach the market mid-year. ... [Dow Chemical Powerhouse Shingle]
... "The solar shingle systems are expected to be available in limited quantities by mid-2010 and projected to be more widely available in 2011 ... " ...
Via The StockMasters: Dow Chemical Powerhouse
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Category: Rooftop Solar
Ford EcoBoost Engine Tech Deployment
Ford EcoBoost engine will be deployed to more models and will be optimized to improve fuel efficiency. ... [EcoBoost Engine View]
... "in the future it will further improve the economy and power of EcoBoost engines by using more efficient turbochargers and fine-tuning the precision of the direct-injection fuel system. " ...
Via New York Times, Wheels Blog: Ford EcoBoost Engine
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Category: Ford
Ford Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
Ford collaborates with electric utilities on infrastructure to support its emerging EVs. ... [Ford electric vehicle innovations]
... "The comments underscore the intensifying pressure within the auto industry to attack the hurdles facing mass adoption of electric vehicles while the Obama administration continues to tighten emission standards. " ...
Via Wall Street Journal: Electric-Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
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Category: Electric Vehicle
Off peak chilling at thermal facility
Scheduling techniques can be applied to leverage off-peak utility rates and use thermal facility to store chilled water. This results in a win for the utility, Progress Energy, and the customer, UCF. ...
... "The Thermal Energy Storage Facility -- the only one of its kind at a Florida university -- allows UCF to chill water at night, taking advantage of Progress Energy’s off-peak energy rates, which are approximately 50 percent lower than daytime rates. " ...
Via Univ of Central Florida: Energy Rebate
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Category: Smart Energy Grid
April 12, 2010
DowJones Ground Mount Solar in Parking Lots
Dow Jones is implementing large solar energy system at its New Jersey headquarters, using ground mounted photovoltaics in its parking zones. ...
... "It says it expects to install a 4.1-megawatt solar power system at its 200-acre campus in South Brunswick, N.J., next year. Dow Jones says the system will be one of the largest solar installations at a single commercial site in the U.S. The panels will cover nearly 230,000 square feet of parking space ... " ...
Via USA TODAY: Dow Jones N.J. campus solar installation
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Category: Solar
Carbon Footprint Calculator
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Want to get an idea of your carbon footprint? Know what a "carbon footprint" is?
" ... measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. ... amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels ..."
"... units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent."
" ... primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions .. including domestic energy consumption and transportation ... secondary footprint is ... indirect CO2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of products we use - those associated with their manufacture and eventual breakdown. ..."
Check out the link below for a great personal carbon footprint calculator. There is also a calculator for business.
Knowing what makes up your carbon footprint gives you options to reduce its size.
Via: carbonfootprint LINK
Posted by Green Dude at 05:28 AM | Permalink | Digg this post | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Category: Carbon Footprint
April 11, 2010
Creative Uses - Reuse that Disposable Cup
Ideasolar-powered Voltaic backpacklly you should use a reusable cup rather than a disposable cup. I try to .... how about you?
Some coffee places even reward you for using your own cup. Starbucks gives a 10 cent / cup discount when you bring your own cup.
But sometimes you just need to use a disposable cup ... but rather than toss it when the coffee is done --- can you find another use for it?
"58 billion paper coffee cups are thrown in the trash each year. ... teamed up with the betacup to bring you the Coffee Cup Challenge! ... Enter your awesome idea for a paper cup reuse and win a solar-powered Voltaic backpack!"
For the rules see the link at the bottom of this post ...
Via: Instructables LINK
Posted by Green Dude at 08:13 PM | Permalink | Digg this post | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Category: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Truck Stop Electrification
Everyone has seen trucks idling when they seem to be "just waiting" at a truck or rest stop. Many drivers keep the engine running to allow for heating / cooling and even to run appliances in their sleeper cab.
Truck Stop Electrification While diesels are efficient they are polluting ... and use fuel at the rate of a gallon / hour at idle.
TSE - Truck Stop Electrification "... helps drivers, their trucks and our planet rest a bit easier. Supported by Carbonfund.org ... reduces tailpipe emissions ... system consists of an in-cab service module ... that heats, cools, and powers the interior of the truck ... without forcing the engine to burn diesel while saving about a gallon of diesel per hour. ... over one hundred locations throughout the United States."
Via: CarbonFund.org Blog LINK
Posted by Green Dude at 08:06 PM | Permalink | Digg this post | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Category: Air Quality
Smart LED Bulbs
GE readies its 9 watt Energy Smart LED bulb for market, which will replace 40-watt general service incandescent bulbs. The new LED lighting will arrive on store shelves later this year or in early 2011 and the retail pricing is expected to be in the range of $40 to $50. ... [GE LED Bulb]
... "The new GE Energy Smart LED bulb is expected to outperform currently available products that may be underwhelming consumers right now. GE scientists and engineers designed the bulb to better direct light downward on the intended surface and all around, not just out the top of a lampshade, as most current LED bulbs are prone to do. The new GE LED bulb offers 450 lumens -- the Energy Star threshold to be considered a 40-watt incandescent replacement. Currently available LED bulbs produce 350 lumens or less. GE has filed multiple patent applications for the bulb and expects it will be an ENERGY STAR qualified LED omnidirectional light bulb. " ...
Via GE: Future of LED Lighting
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Category: LED-lighting
Next-gen offshore wind turbines
GE makes sigificant European wind energy investment with offshore wind turbine manufacturing located in the United Kingdom. ...
... "At the core of GE’s European expansion plans is the development of GE’s next generation wind turbine, a 4-megawatt machine designed specifically for offshore deployment. As the largest wind turbine in GE’s fleet, it will incorporate advanced drive train and control technologies gained through GE’s acquisition of ScanWind. The 4-megawatt wind turbine will feature GE’s innovative technology that eliminates the need for gearboxes. This technology is already being demonstrated at a test site in Hundhammerfjellet, Norway, where the first ScanWind direct drive unit has been operating for more than five years. " ...
Via GE: European Offshore Wind Expansion
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Category: Wind Energy
Plastic Fiber Solar Cell Design
Wake Forest researchers work to improve the solar energy production from cells and patent their cell configuration. ...
... "These new solar cells are made from millions of miniscule plastic fibers that can collect sunlight at oblique angles – even when the sun is rising and setting. Flat-cell technology captures light primarily when the sun is directly above. " ...
Via Wake Forest: Efficient, inexpensive fiber-based solar cells
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Category: Solar
Carbon Solar Cell using Graphene Sheet
Indiana University researchers use carbon in the form of graphene to develop inexpensive solar cells. Their research will continue to refine the prototypes focusing on the cell efficiency. ... [Professor Li]
... "Li and his collaborators tried a different idea. By attaching a semi-rigid, semi-flexible, three-dimensional sidegroup to the sides of the graphene, they were able to keep graphene sheets as big as 168 carbon atoms from adhering to one another. With this method, they could make the graphene sheets from smaller molecules (bottom-up) so that they are uniform in size. To the scientists' knowledge, it is the biggest stable graphene sheet ever made with the bottom-up approach. " ...
Via Indiana University: Carbon-based solar cell
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Category: Solar
US Gov't Creates Significant Waste with Printing that is Not Needed
paperlA recent report from the Washington Times shows that a significant amount of printing by US Govt employees is never needed ... it is thrown out or recycled. Wow - 1/3 of all printed paper is wasted !!
" .... Washington Times reports that a full third of the printing performed by U.S. government employees is instantly tossed out or recycled."
"... high time government ... takes the lead from businesses that have their printing costs under control. ... Duplex printing is only part of the story. ... "
"... asking these kinds of questions before they click ‘Print’: ... Is it vital that I have a hard copy of this right now? ... Have I run the electronic file by my colleagues first? ... Does the item I am about to print have to be “perfect”?"
How about you? Do you really need to print everything you do print? Can you print 2 - sided ?
Via: ZDNet.com LINK
Posted by Green Dude at 10:09 AM | Permalink | Digg this post | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Category: Waste Reduction
April 07, 2010
DC Metrobus natural gas fueled
Washington DC Metrobus runs on natural gas as fuel.
Natural gas powers DC Metro Bus
DC Metro bus runs on natural gas near Dupont Circle turning onto New Hampshire Ave.
Natural gas transit buses (PDF).
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Category: Washington, DC
China's Off Shore Wind Farm
off shore turbine
China is looking to use off shore wind farms to help power the country ... with a significant part of the population on the eastern shore this may prove to better than bringing coal generated power in from the west of China.
China will " ... bring online ... its first offshore wind farm, a 102-megawatt array located in the Yangtze River delta ..."
"... latest in a series of moves ... to pad its lead as the world’s largest market for wind power. ..."
" ... Azure International predicts that China will install 514 megawatts of offshore wind over the next three to four years. By 2010, ... expected to invest $100 billion to install up to 30,000 megawatts ..."
Via: SmartPlanet LINK
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Category: Wind Energy
April 06, 2010
Heat Storage Leadership
Heat storage technology has potential to significantly impact climate change. The Dutch are seen as leaders in this space. ...
... "Dutch are currently the leaders in the creative deployment of heat storage methods. They store heat underneath roads in the summer and then pump it out again in the winter. And in my talk I mentioned a community in Canada called Drake’s Landing, where they have a community heat storage which collects heat from solar hot water panels ... " ...
Via MIT: Renewable Energy Leaders
Reference:
Seasonal Heat Storage.
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Category: Energy Innovation
April 04, 2010
Sustainable Housing in Sonoma, California
Sustainable houseFolks in Sonoma, California are working to design and refine a Passive House ... but what exactly is a passive home?
" ... a building that has a minimal impact on its surroundings. ... as systems unto themselves. ... well-insulated — virtually airtight — ... most of the “heat” ... comes from the humans and appliances and other stuff running in them. Heat exchangers are used to circulate it. ... in the United States ... focus has been certifying according the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED framework ...."
Via: SmartPlanet LINK
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Category: Sustainability
Greening the Hotel Room
Do you hate to waste energy at home? How about when you travel? Some travelers are a little less energy efficient on the road then at home. Some hotels are helping to change that ...
I remember when I was in Singapore in 1990 and the hotel had a neat way to save energy. If you wanted the lights and A/C to work in the room you had to put the key chain (actually a block of plastic with metal at the bottom) in a slot by the door. This completed a circuit that "turned the power on" in the room. And when you left ... you took the key and off went the power.
Starwood Hotels Element brand has some interesting ideas to make your hotel room a little greener ...Element logo
" ... testing ... energy management system ... that curbs heating and air conditioning usage - the guestroom's biggest energy hogs, ... is invisible to the average customer and doesn't require guests to alter their behavior ... "
" ... motion- and heat-sensitive sensors ... detect when people leave their rooms or fall asleep inside, he said. ... automatically trims heating or air conditioning ... cuts energy use without radically altering the temperature ..."
" ... cut heating and air conditioning use by 47%, ... equivalent of about 50,000 pounds of CO2 emissions or about 2,500 gallons of gas ... "
Via: USA Today LINK
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Category: Green Business Practices
April 03, 2010
Most Green Dream Job
Dream jobs has a green winner ...
... "Most Green - Dina ... Global Paper Waste Reduction Agent " ...
Via Simply Hired Blog: Winners of Dream Job Contest
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Category: Waste Reduction
Think Laterally to Solar Energy Breakthrough
Creativity and new thinking is needed to drive innovation in the renewable energy space. ... [Nice use case drawing for creative thinking]
... "He has also designed solar panels on top of cars and umbrellas, all things that he said are possible and can benefit the world. He urged students to use lateral thinking, a re-imagined creation of almost anything, as a means to solve traditional problems with a nontraditional approach. " ...
Via The Pendulum, Elon University: Think laterally, fantastically
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Category: Research
April 02, 2010
Cool Green Cities
Green city list via HowStuffWorks. Includes US and European cities that are embracing green lifestyles, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.
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Category: Green Building
April 01, 2010
Pearl Jam Carbon Footprint Offset with Tree Planting in Puget Sound
Pearl Jam partners with Cascade Land Conservancy to plant thirty-plus acres of native trees and plants in communities around Puget Sound to offset the carbon footprint of its world tour. ... [Pearl Jam on Tour]
... "Pearl Jam’s donation of $210,000 will fund the urban forestry project and mitigate more than 7,000 metric tons of carbon. Conservation International chief adviser, climate and water, Michael Totten estimates Pearl Jam’s actual carbon emissions from its 32-date 2009 tour to be 5,474 metric tons of CO2. The band will also track, calculate and mitigate its carbon for their current 2010 tour. " ...
Via Cascade Land Conservancy: Pearl Jam Mitigates CO2 from World Tour
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Category: Carbon Footprint
Solar Boat Launch
The largest solar boat launches in Germany. ... [Solar Boat]
... "solar-powered boat made a gentle plop as it was lowered by a huge crane on to the waters of the Kiel firth in northern Germany today ... " ...
Via Guardian: Solar-powered boat Türanor
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Category: Solar
Green Hornet Biofuel Jet
[President Barack Obama looks at an F-18 Green Hornet jet, a biofuel powered fighter jet, Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.]
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Category: Airplanes
Fuel Economy Standards CAFE reduce GHG emissions through 2016
U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have aligned on new federal rules that establish national greenhouse gas emissions standards that significantly increase the fuel [CAFE fuel economy standards] economy of all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States. Ultimately, the consumer will benefit from savings on a 2016 model year car of over $3,000 through the life of the vehicle. The country will save approximately 1.8 billion barrels of oil and eliminate almost a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. ...
... "Today’s final rules, issued by DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and EPA, establish increasingly stringent fuel economy standards under NHTSA’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy program and greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act for 2012 through 2016 model-year vehicles. Starting with 2012 model year vehicles, the rules together require automakers to improve fleet-wide fuel economy and reduce fleet-wide greenhouse gas emissions by approximately five percent every year. NHTSA has established fuel economy standards that strengthen each year reaching an estimated 34.1 mpg for the combined industry-wide fleet for model year 2016. " ...
Via United States Department of Transportation: Aggressive National Standards for Fuel Economy and First Ever Greenhouse Gas Emission Levels
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Category: Automotive
Earth Week Sustainability Fair highlight practices
at SUNY Oswego to build awareness among the student body and community. ...
... "The first Sustainability Fair on April 21 will offer campus and community members a chance to see and test drive a fuel cell vehicle and view an electric sports car, a wood-to-gas truck, a Smart car and hybrids. Visitors will meet vendors of green products and services, from organic farming and gardening to solar and other energy contracting to ecofriendly cleaning and more. " ...
Via SUNY Oswego: Earth Week Events
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US Air Force Test Bio-Jet Fuel in A10C
Bio fuel is being looked at for cars and commercial jets ... now the USAF is looking to see if J8 jet fuel can be supplemented or even replaced by bio-jet fuel.
"... Air Force consumes 2.4 billion gallons of jet fuel each year ... 40th Flight Test Squadron is on a mission to change that. ... climbing into the cockpits of jets filled, in part, with alternative fuels."A-1o jet
" ... A-10C Thunderbolt II took off from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida powered by Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (HRJ) and JP-8 (Jet Propellant 8, the military standard and kerosene-based). ... mission is being considered a success: a fighter jet can fly on a synthetic fuel blend."
Via: SmartPlanet LINK
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Category: Biofuels
March 31, 2010
Ford Microsoft energy management collaboration targets electric vehicles
Ford teams up with Microsoft to integrate the Hohm energy management system into its future electric vehicle products. [Ford Microsoft Hohm for management of Electric Vehicles] Electric vehicle owners will benefit from information provided through Hohm and be enabled in their transition to this type of transportation. ...
... "The two companies are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker announcing the use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year. Hohm will help owners determine when and how to most efficiently and affordably recharge battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles. It also should help utility companies manage the added demands of electric vehicles on the electric grid. " ...
Via Ford: Microsoft Hohm as platform for Ford’s electric vehicles
[Ford Microsoft Hohm Collaboration]
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Category: Electric Vehicle
Plastic Solar Cells
Princeton researchers see role for plastic electronics to reduce cost of solar cells in future. ...
... "By allowing plastic solar cells to be manufactured using low-cost printing techniques and by replacing ITO as the primary [Princeton research has solar energy impact] conducting material, the plastics the team developed hold potential for lowering the cost of solar panels. Currently, the electricity generated by plastic solar cells is collected by a transparent metal conductor made of ITO. The conductor must be transparent so that sunlight can pass through it to the materials in solar cells that absorb the light energy. " ...
Via Princeton University: Plastic electronics integrated into solar panels
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Arizona Tokyo Solar Research Partnership
Arizona State University and the University of Tokyo, Japan will partner on collaborative research to advance solar energy technology. The partnership is planned for three years and will involve collaboration on research, education, symposia, and talent. ... [Solar energy research partnership]
... "The University of Tokyo is rated by the Global University Ranking organization and others as one the leading universities and research institutions in Asia, and it is the leading solar-energy research institution in Japan. " ...
Via Arizona State University: Solar energy technology research
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Category: Arizona
March 30, 2010
Canvas Dreams - Sustainable Web Hosting
Canvawind powers Dreams is a green sustainable web host service based in Oregon. They are green from their source of power to their business practices.
"... is a sustainable Web host based in Portland, Oregon. ... firstt Web hosting company in the Pacific Northwest to use 100% clean wind energy, generated locally by Portland General Electric ... commitment to sustainable practices ... a sustainability program, including a reduction in waste and energy usage, responsible electronics and plastic
Canvas Dreams logo
recycling, telecommuting and carpooling, ..."
Via: Canvas Dreams Sustainable Web Hosting LINK
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Kaiser Permanente California Solar Power Systems
Kaiser Permanente collaborates with Recurrent Energy to implement fifteen megawatts of solar power at fifteen California facilities by 2011. ... [Kaiser Permanente Solar Power Program]
... "Installing solar panels on Kaiser Permanente hospitals, medical offices, and other buildings is the first part of a larger plan to use onsite renewable energy sources to power Kaiser Permanente’s buildings nationwide. A focus on renewable energy sources is just one aspect of the organization’s industry-leading work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the use of harmful chemicals, and promote sustainable food choices. " ...
Via Kaiser Permanente: California Facilities Solar Power
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Category: California
California Waste Treatment Plant Implements Solar Power
City of Auburn wastewater treatment plant will be fully powered by a 680 kilowatt solar power system, installed by Pacific Power Management. ...
... "The new photovoltaic system will consist of more than 3,300 panels that will be installed on single-axis ground mount trackers at the plant. The city entered into a 20 year contract and will buy power from PPM, as if PPM were a utility company. The city won’t pay for the installation of the panels. " ...
Via Pacific Power Management: Auburn California Wastewater Treatment Plant Solar Power
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Category: California
Project Brightfield Solar
Chevron Technology Ventures’ Project Brightfield will leverage AboundSolar photovoltaics to pilot commercial scale ground mount installation. ...
... "The ground-mount facility built on land in Bakersfield, CA formerly occupied by a refinery, has a nameplate capacity of 190kW and is projected to produce more than 300 MWh per year. The array of Abound Solar’s AB1 modules comprises one of the largest components of Chevron’s Project Brightfield, a test facility to compare the performance of multiple emerging solar technology products. " ...
Via Abound Solar: 190kW Photovoltaic Installation
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Category: Solar
Seville solar power tower
Insights into the Spanish solar power tower ...
... "the tower has 624 heliostats, or giant mirrors, which reflect the sun’s rays into a receiver at the top of the tower. The receiver is similar to giant boiler, creating steam ... " ...
Via BYU-Hawaii: Power Tower in Spain
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Category: Spain
March 29, 2010
Besam - Eco Friendly Products from an Eco Friendly Company
automatic sliding door
While at the National Geographic Museum in DC I noticed that their entrance doors are made by Besam and were marked as "low energy power operated door".
Many businesses are reluctant to not have the door always open to make the store more inviting and easier for customers to come in - this wastes tremendous amounts of energy and money in heating and cooling costs. besam logo
" ... Besam strives to manufacture ... automatic entrances in a manner that limits their impact on the environment, ... "
" ...study conducted .... energy use and customer counts were monitored before and after the installation of Besam Holland’s “Green Door” ..."
" ... cost of heating the shop was reduced by 43%. ... there was virtually no decrease in the number of customers entering the store after the installation of the automatic sliding door."
Automated doors have been shown to both save energy and keep store traffic at high levels.
Via: Besam.com LINK
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Category: Energy Innovation
Smart Meters provide data for analysis and benchmarking of efficiency trends
Stadtwerke Erding implements GE smart grid technology to enable homeowners in Germany to become more aware of their energy consumption and efficiency impacts. ...
... "The smart meters are connected to a central office for analysis and planning via a data concentrator, providing data to optimize usage efficiency and minimizing waste. Benchmarking data from last year will contribute to emissions and efficiency programs in 2010 and beyond. " ...
Via Yahoo! Finance: Smart Grid Technology in Germany
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Category: Smart Energy Grid
March 28, 2010
Minnesota Solar Decathlon ICON House Available for Sale
University of Minnesota Solar Decathlon entry, the ICON house, is coming up for sale. ... [ICON solar house in Washington DC for the Solar Decathlon]
... "The 550-square-foot home, which took fifth place overall (out of 20 teams) in October's Solar Decathlon (a DOE-sponsored contest that challenges universities from around the globe to design and construct the most efficient and appealing sun-powered dwelling), is known as the ICON Solar House due to its classic gabled roof design.
It was designed and built by a consortium of professionals and students in the U of M's Institute of Technology, College of Design and College of Continuing Education. Minimum bid on the house will be $200,000. " ...
Via University of Minnesota: Solar house available for purchase
The ICON house deploys LED lighting, graywater recycling for drip irrigation, and natural light daylighting.
[University of Minnesota Gophers Solar Decathlon House]
[ICON Solar House]
[ICON house solar roof]
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