The collector also promises to do more with sunlight once it's trapped: since the microchannels should absorb more than half of the waste heat, their hot water byproduct can either be filtered into drinkable water or converted into air conditioning.
Through the cloud, an IT organization can have all of the benefits of a hot backup site without the expense and waste of underutilized compute and infrastructure resources.
The information harvested from each compactor allows waste managers to optimize collection routes and schedules and prevent hot spots from becoming problems.
In 2009, the company shed weight from its foam hot cup and plastic cold cup which reduced the amount of cup waste winding up in land fills by 4.6 million pounds per annum.
Like the first book, the new book surveys the hot spots in the clean tech space, which include net-zero energy green buildings, advanced waste heat technologies for combined heat and power and several other technologies.