I was looking through a book about a very old Scottish castle on the edge of Loch Ness. Skimming through the pages, I was looking at the hand drawn illustrations and captions depicting how they thought the inhabitants of this old castle used to dress like and what they did centuries ago. The castle drawing [...]
Electron-Stimulated Luminescence (ESL) is an entirely new efficient lighting technology being developed by a start-up company called Vu1. ESL lighting is expected to be an alternative to LED, CFL and old fashioned incandescent bulbs. ESL ‘bulbs’ use accelerated electrons to excite phosphor coated on the surface to produce light. Working in exactly the same way [...]
Here are a few quick tips on ways your employer or your own business can save energy and cut carbon emissions: Automatic lighting – turn on when you are in range using light sensors, turn off when no-one is around. Fluorescent tube lighting and CFL bulbs – save up to 80% of the electricity consumption. [...]
