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Device Provides Household Energy Savings of 12%
100% Off will provide household energy savings of 12% by automatically overriding stand-by mode and switching appliances off
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US economic stimulus money fuels ’smart’ power grid surge
Electric grids are getting smarter in an IBM lab in Texas as the promise of billions of US economic stimulus dollars fuels a drive to make power delivery more efficient and greener.
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IBM Press room – 2009-03-22 Ricoh and Taisei Join Eco-Patent Commons – United States
Ricoh and Taisei have joined the Eco-Patent Commons, a first-of-a-kind business effort coordinated by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to help the environment by pledging environmentally beneficial patents to the public domain.
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Robotic Fish To Monitor Water Pollution – CBS News
A school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish will be released into a Spanish port to help monitor pollution there, scientists said Friday.
The 5-foot-long robots work by mimicking the swishing movements of a fish’s tail, according to University of Essex robotics expert Huosheng Hu, whose team is manufacturing the machines.
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Schools of robofish to sniff out pollution in the Thames | Mail Online
Schools of robotic fish could be sent into the Thames to produce a 3D pollution map of the river.
Researchers at the University of Essex in Colchester are working on the robofish as part of a £2.5million EU-funded project to find new ways of monitoring water waste.
Each fish will be about 50cm long, 15cm high and 12cm wide. They will be packed with pollution sensors that can electronically ’sniff’ harmful chemicals in the water.
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