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The technology that animates video games enables a leap in science, as the U.S. government deploys Titan, the most powerful “hybrid” supercomputer yet.

“The Titan system at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is a leading contender to top the industry’s official list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, to be announced next month in Salt Lake City. It can handle 20,000 trillion calculations each second…”

“But Titan’s signature achievement is how little energy it burns while blazing through those computations.

Titan’s predecessor supercomputer at Oak Ridge, the 2.3-petaflop Jaguar machine, drew 7 megawatts (MW) of electricity, enough to power a small town. Titan needs just about 30 percent more electricity, 9 MW, while delivering ninefold greater computing power.”

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Now is the time to make sure you know where your candidates stand on the day’s most important issues. Two important issues that will have a major impact on our state’s future are clean energy and energy efficiency.

“A recent poll … found that Wisconsinites overwhelmingly support clean energy and energy efficiency. In fact, the poll found that 85 percent of Wisconsin voters support increasing the use of wind energy to meet our state’s future energy needs, and 89 percent support increasing the use of solar energy. …”

“By passing clean energy policies and increasing funding for money-saving programs … legislators can help create Wisconsin jobs. Companies … can create more jobs if leaders work together to advance clean energy and energy efficiency policies.”

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Energy efficiency is at the heart of changes that will be incorporated into structures of the future

By Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun October 27, 2012

“Retrofits are crucial.

One of Hood’s main assignments is overseeing the redevelopment of existing buildings. More often than not, that means uncovering, through energy audits, glaring examples of waste – air leaks, inadequate insulation, inefficient heating and ventilation systems.

“We are involved in residential projects where we can achieve 80-per-cent reduction in energy use …. These are tried and true technologies around good building enclosures and high-performance mechanical systems such as heat pump technology.”

“On the commercial side, a lot of the audits we do for energy we’re seeing 30-to 50-per-cent reduction in energy use in ways that are cost-effective. The payback is five to eight years.”

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Pittsburgh continues to gain bragging rights where planning and architecture are concerned. That was reinforced this month with two unrelated events.

“…an expert on new building technologies, says it will be the tallest office building in the country to use natural ventilation, rather than being a hermetically sealed box, like office towers of the past. …”

“The AIA also gave out several “Green Design Citations.” One is especially notable. This is the redesign of the old South Hills High School on Mt. Washington …, the huge old school was converted into 106 units of housing for the elderly along with community and commercial spaces. It achieves unusually high energy efficiency for an existing building.”

“Architectural Record and the AIA gave high praise for imaginative redevelopment and planning along our revived riverfronts. …”

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A growing number of businesses from nearly every type of professional services firms to luxury marketers to technology companies are striving to become thought leaders in their respective fields.

“There are a number of different views about thought leadership. From our perspective, thought leadership is a business development strategy based on high ingenuity and cleverness combined with a clear path to monetization.”

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A growing number of businesses from nearly every type of professional services firms to luxury marketers to technology companies are striving to become thought leaders in their respective fields.

“There are a number of different views about thought leadership. From our perspective, thought leadership is a business development strategy based on high ingenuity and cleverness combined with a clear path to monetization.”

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Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, announced today the completion of energy efficiency upgrades to Montcalm Community College (MCC), located in Sidney Township, Michigan.

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Data centers are a vital cog in our digital world.

“Data centers depend on a reliable supply of electricity in order to perform 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Today’s electric infrastructure isn’t capable of providing the level of power reliability that data centers require, so these centers spend huge amounts of money on back-up systems in order to protect the facilities from power outages. …”

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While university buildings are barely being used at night, the lights remain on, according to graduate student Adam Holubinka who said leaving the lights on wastes energy.

“We installed energy efficient lighting and sensors in the municipal building as well as new windows,” Houck said. “All have had a favorable impact on our energy usage.”

Crossman said university officials began to install motion sensors that turn on the lights inside academic buildings such as Perkins Student Center, that turn off after 15 minutes of inactivity. She said they have yet to install the sensors in all buildings and the rooms that remain lit at night are most likely not equipped with the sensors.

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A major manufacturer of floor mats converts a rubber manufacturing plant to LED lighting, reducing energy use by 650 kWh per day and improving the light quality, reports Maury Wright.

“LED lighting has certainly succeeded broadly in many applications including street lights. In the industrial space, the success has come primarily in two areas – refrigerated facilities and warehouses.”

“Before embarking on the project, Mountville analyzed the cost of the project and the expected payback. The company used its own in-house electricians to install the lights, although they did account for that cost in their analysis including the need to rent a hydraulic lift for a month. They based the projection on an electrical cost of $0.10/kWh. The expectation was that the project would payback in 2.2 years. “

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