Nest’s New Learning Thermostat With Better Design and Energy-Saving Features

The release of next-generation Nest Learning Thermostat was announced yesterday by the leading manufacturer Nest Labs Inc. Not even a year after the official...

Data Centers Could Work at Higher Temps to Save Energy

The internet is a huge network of interconnected computers. Hundreds of thousands of servers quickly store, locate, and retrieve data, sometimes from halfway around...

Simple Drain Heat Recovery System Can Save Up to 50% Heating Energy

This morning I found an ingenious idea by RenewABILITY Energy, called Power-Pipe Drain Water Heat Recovery (DWHR). The name should say it all - it's...

2 Reasons Why White Cars Are Environmentally-Friendlier Than Black Cars

Today I realized something I already knew, but didn't pay importance to: black cars drink more fuel than lighter-colored ones, and this is something...

New Wastewater Treatment Plant From Siemens Saves Energy by Using Bacterial Heat

Siemens has recently invented a new biodrying process that can convert sewage sludge into usable elements - all of this while saving a great...

More Efficient Lighting Not Necessarily Meaning Less Energy Consumption, Paper Says

Two Sandia University researchers, Jeff Tsao and Harry Saunders have recently underlined what you may never have thought of LED lights. Historically, when a...

Study: Yahoo Mail Users Consume 11% More Electricity Than Gmail Users

An interesting piece of news shared by Zach from Cleantechnica struck my attention and I instantly knew I had to blog about it. It...

Chinese Grid Operators to Raise Prices, Target “Irresponsible” Consumers

It's only logic, right: you consume more, you pay more! In China however, you pay even more than the normal "more": starting this July,...

Student-Designed Power Metering Platform Slashes 10% Off Your Electricity Bill

Did you ever have that weird feeling when opening up the electricity bill? Or did you ever feel like the payable amount was too...

Credit Suisse Zurich Datacenter Saves Up to 50% Electricity Thanks to Innovative Management System

An innovative method of saving the energy consume by data centers has been invented by EPFL scientists and applied for Credit Suisse in Switzerland....