Frito-Lay plant goes near net zero

Frito Lay solar concentrators Frito-Lay, the company that brings you Cheetos, Doritos, and lots of other tasty snacks, has made substantial changes to its manufacturing plant in Casa Grande, Arizona to create what it can arguably state is the “greenest” manufacturing plant in the U.S. The plant, which is the first food plant to achieve Related posts: Solar / natural gas power plant hybrids Global Resource – Squeezing oil and gas from old tires and other stuff Natural Gas to Liquids Plant coming to the U.S.

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New hybrid light bulb from GE combines instant on with power savings

GE hybrid light bulb One of the reasons why I haven’t replaced all my incandescent light bulbs with CFLs is because sometimes CFL’s just take too long to come up to full brightness. Now General Electric has come up with a way to fix that. GE has started shipping out what it Related posts: From Bizzyblog – Nanotech lightbulbs Forbes: The LED Illumination Revolution Light funnels – a new way to concentrate solar power

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GE’s new hybrid water heater cuts energy use, wins awards

GE GeoSpring hybrid hot water heater General Electric’s new GeoSpring hybrid water heater has won first place in the Edison Best New Products Awards in the Lifestyle and Social Impact category. GE won the award because its new water heater cuts the cost of water heating in the average home by more than 50%. Related posts: Battery firm Ener1 predicts hybrid price cuts Solar Power that gives you both electricity and hot water Spire Corp wins patent to make better solar cells using nanotech

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The green in the stimulus bill

If you’re curious about the alternative energy and environmental areas in the current version of the stimulus bill that’s now being debated in the US Senate, head on over to CNNMoney.com. Here’s a couple of tidbits – Conservation programs ($24 billion in the House version, $15 billion in the Senate) Public transporation ($13b House, $8.5b Senate) Power lines –

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Bill aims to swap out old light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs

This post is brought to you by ? Curt Rosengren ~ Passion Catalyst TM ? ? “Love your work. Change your world.” There’s a bill in the US Senate right now aimed at aiming out old-style incandescent light bulb and replacing them with energy efficient bulbs. It looks like it has a good chance of passing. If the bill passes and Americans gradually switch out bulbs over the next seven years, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee estimated annual energy savings would reach $6 billion. Energy-efficient bulbs could save more than 65 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year, said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., a House of Representatives co-sponsor of the bill. That’s the equivalent of 80 coal-fired power plants, Upton said. “This is more than just one light bulb at a time,” he said at a Senate energy committee hearing Wednesday. The legislation requires that light bulbs be 300 percent more efficient by 2020, said Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., another House sponsor of the legislation. The bill’s sponsors also would like light-bulb manufacturers to find a way to keep mercury from being released in the manufacture and disposal of the new energy-efficient bulbs. They’re also working on encouraging manufacturers to make the newer bulbs in the United States, Harman said, and would like to see the federal government, the world’s biggest buyer of light bulbs, switch to more efficient lighting. The legislation would require that 40-, 60-, 75- and 100-watt incandescent light bulbs be phased out by 2014. They would be replaced with the “curlicue” compact fluorescent light bulbs and other, more energy-efficient forms of lighting being developed. If it does pass, it will have a significant impact on the sum total of energy consumed by light bulbs worldwide. The article say that the US is the single-largest market for incandescent bulbs and accounts for nearly a third of the global market. —

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