This is used for lighting and power in the building with any surplus sold back to the electricity company.
The GSA announced this week that trials of workstation lighting controls and advanced power strips dramatically reduced electricity use in federal buildings.
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About half an hour later, neighbouring Monklands Hospital was also hit by power cuts affecting lighting systems in the accident and emergency department.
That is, here is a glaring waste of electric power, fully lighting a business through all its nighttime inactivity, every single night, for no purpose at all except to advertise its presence to almost empty midnight streets.
The power of energy efficient lighting is not just in the emerging hardware, but in the software and networking that can maximize that hardware to deliver widespread economic benefit and truly change the way lighting is managed today.
Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced material architect, harnessing the fundamental properties of inorganic materials into process ready systems that can integrate into existing manufacturing to produce vastly superior products in lighting, electronic displays, solar power and energy storage.
Fab 15 will be TSMC's next "green fab" following Fab 12 and Fab 14, incorporating green concepts in energy conservation and pollution control in its design, including a process water conservation rate of 85%, reclamation of rainwater, recirculation and reuse of general exhaust heat, and development of solar power generation and LED lighting applications.
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The white unit was closest to production, with a proper power button and green LED lighting in the base.
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With its interests in power systems, transportation, medical lighting and finance, Siemens Group is Germany's answer to General Electric.
In short, the power of silicon is coming to lighting.
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The forum's founding members are all involved in advanced technology and solutions associated with the Internet of Things, including commercial infrastructure monitoring, energy-saving street lighting, home automation, energy monitoring and low power radio technology for sensors.
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He said investigators are still working on lighting the room because the ship is operating on temporary power from a generator on the dock.
The young inventor envisages PaveGen systems being used to power off-grid appliances such as public lighting, illuminated street maps and advertising, and to be installed in areas of dense human traffic such as city centers, underground stations and school corridors.
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Additional power for the car's Racepak, Baja Designs lighting, communications and GPS is provided by a 4-cell battery pack located in the driver's compartment.
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The ZigBee wireless protocol was designed as a cheaper and lower-power alternative to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for embedding in lighting switches, thermostats, smoke detectors and other sensors.
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Rather than continuously power HDDs that are only occasionally used, the new setup can conserve energy by lighting-up drives just when they're needed.
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Kim then shifts into sales-mode by pointing out that Samsung's more power-efficient 240Hz LCDs and Plasmas with highly-reflective black panels and LED edge-lighting are quickly cutting into any advantage offered by OLEDs -- including thinness if you factor in the additional electronics you'd have to slap onto the back of those 3-mm thick OLED panels to create a TV.
Power-operated curtains provide privacy for the rear passengers and together with an innovative color-changing interior lighting system create a serene atmosphere.
Power electronics modify the voltage, current or frequency of electricity in applications as diverse as solid-state lighting, intelligent motors and electric vehicles.
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