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Saving Energy Without Derision
George Maschke writes "Saving Energy Without Derision (5 mb PDF) is a new (and free) e-book by former Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist Dr. Alan P. Zelicoff. This book is intended to be a real-world, no-nonsense, thoroughly documented collection of easy-to-implement recommendations to help the average thoughtful person to pick the 'low-hanging fruit' of conservation and renewable energy. The author is after the easy 75% of actions we can all take (but almost uniformly ignore) that most certainly make a difference in energy costs (after all that's what most people care about) and adjuring a bit of unnecessary adverse impact on the environment (which a few folks actually think is important beyond the mere dollar valuation). The author welcomes comments and intends to continuously update the book (consistent with readership interest) and address many new topics. For example, next on his list is an analysis of the economics and scientific basis of fuel-cell vehicles powered by hydrogen. (Bottom line, he maintains, is that it's a cruel hoax and energy disaster, and far less useful than, for example, heavy hybrid automobiles that get about 50 - 60 miles on an electric charge alone -- which accounts for more than 85% of driving in the US and elsewhere on a daily basis -- and which are available now.)"
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
With the increasing interest in hydrogen fuel cells it may be time for the 'coalition of the willing' to begin the inva^H^H^H^H liberation plans of those countries that possess surplus hydrogen reserves.
It also might be time for a manned mision to the sun...
[insert obligatory joke about overheating server]
A direct link to a 5mb file in the article summary? Never mind energy bills, hope this guy has paid up his server bill.
Save energy on your server farm by not allowing multi-megabyte links from Slashdot.
One energy tip I've thought about is putting a diode in series with each of my incandecent fixtures with a capacitor across the lamp to bridge the missing half of the cycle. While this won't actually save any energy, as you will be drawing twice the current through half the cycle, it should add a DC bias to the current which won't be measured by the inductive meter, thus you will save money. Make sure all the diodes point the same way so that all your lamps are drawing from the same half of the cycle, otherwise, you might lose the DC bias and end up paying full price for your electricity.
Unknown host pong.
for most paranthetical comments in a Slashdot news post goes to . . .
a PDF is a text file made slightly fuzzy so it looks shit.
there better be lots of nice pictures with that!
download 5MB pdf about saving bandwidth
With sentences like this, no wonder it's a 5MB article.
Even blind squirrels find nuts now and then.
Electrocuting small children is arguably a worse use of electricity than producing heat through resistance.
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is living in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann
So it's just pot heads, eco freaks, and people who pay 300% for a name? ;->