Saving Energy in Small Office Buildings

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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energy...

[Anonymous Coward]

its fucking hot in melbourne today!

Mods on crack.

[jrockway]

It looks like some moderator just modded down the first five posts. Strange.

Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[Animats]

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.

Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[mboverload]

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

Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[Eightyford]

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.

Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[Pichu0102]

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.

Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[Red Alastor]

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.

Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[Dachannien]

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

Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[TubeSteak]

what an offtopic clusterfuck

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

end of story.

Animats needs to STFU

Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger

[Animats]

Ah. That's a good solution. Thanks.

Roland

[Anonymous Coward]

Change your name already. Maybe to... "the guy who cried, wolf!"

Office power solution...

[CmdrTaco on]

Impeach that shit-head Bush. He's a traitor and scum bag extraordinaire.

All you idiots that voted for him: Kill yourself. Before that though, castrate your boys and give your daughters hysterectomies.

I'm sick of Rebublicans pissing and shitting on our poor, elderly, and smart people.

My knee-jerk reaction was bunk

[dubbayu_d_40]

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.

Do you really think Roland cares about this stuff?

[Anonymous Coward]

The only thing that's important to him is finding something which will be posted on Slashdot with the fewest number of complaints by Slashdot readers. The subject is irrelevant. All he is interested in are the ad-clicks which stem from a successful submission. Since he has certain Slashdot "Editors" in his pocket (ie, as business partners), he is very successful whenever they are "Editing".

You will pry my boinc from my cold dead fingers!

[snikulin]

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Too drunk to invent somehing more funny...

Re:Hmm

[weeb0]

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