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Saving Energy in Small Office Buildings

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the freeze-in-the-morning-fry-in-the-afternoon dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Precooling a structure in the morning before temperatures rise has been done before. It later saves energy during times of peak demand and you might even have done it intuitively at home. But now, engineers from Purdue University have developed a control algorithm which promises to reduce energy consumption -- and electricity bills -- by as much as 30 percent for small office buildings which represent the majority of commercial structures. So far, this method has only been tested in California, but the researchers say that their control software could be used anywhere after minor adaptations."

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  1. Dealing with Roland the Plogger by Animats · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Roland the Plogger is trying to up his PageRank again.

    How about this? When Roland the Plogger posts a story, replace the link to his web site with his e-mail address.

    1. Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger by Eightyford · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      He got me an interesting link to an interesting story. I don't see YOU posting any interesting stories.

      No kidding. What's wrong with making money anyways? Just because I'm broke as shit doesn't mean I should complain about others.

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    2. Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger by Pichu0102 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Read the page source; he's not getting pagerank for this. That's why the rel="nofollow" is there, to prevent people from complaining.
      Doesn't look like it worked in the least bit.

    3. Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger by Red+Alastor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You missed when CmdrTaco asked the crowd what he should do about those kind of submissions, huh ? He actually listened to what we had to say and if you look at the source of the page, you'll notice that Rolland's link got a nofollow.

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    4. Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger by Dachannien · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, apparently even Roland hasn't noticed the nofollow attrib, so it should be no surprise that lots of other Slashdotters haven't either.

    5. Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger by TubeSteak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      what an offtopic clusterfuck

      CmdrTaco said he's going to add nofollow tags to submitter's links.

      end of story.

      Animats needs to STFU

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    6. Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger by Animats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Ah. That's a good solution. Thanks.

  2. My knee-jerk reaction was bunk by dubbayu_d_40 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Then I wondered if the converse, pre-heating in the winter would work, and voila, it clicked. This is a good idea in the commercial landscape. As I remember, commerical users pay different rates based on the time of day. I bet this works better for older buildings where denser building materials (more brick, less glass) were used.

  3. You will pry my boinc from my cold dead fingers! by snikulin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  4. Re:Hmm by weeb0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We'll be able to have pseudo supraconductor cpu during winter ! YEAH!