Red for bad, green for good. European consumers have long been aware of the energy labels for appliances, to separate colors, offer letters. In the future, heaters and boilers will also include these tags. The European Commission is currently outlining the rules for implementing the scheme.
The European Union wants to phase out the most inefficient [...]
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In 1997 at a meeting held by the major countries in Kyoto, discussed the current global environmental outlook and come. From this meeting came off the need for radical change on the part of states to curb global climate change. This was signed the Kyoto Protocol, the first and only major binding environmental treaty for [...]
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Most businesses acknowledge the inherent benefits of using the sun to generate clean energy while, at the same time, saving on utility bills. However, there remains great uncertainty on how best to finance the initial capital required for the installation, operation and maintenance of integrated photovoltaic, hot water or thermal solar systems.
The following is a [...]
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The Government of Mexico City bets to the construction of social and viable houses in the City, and in order to do so, they analyze if it is possible to grant a series of incentives for the industrialists who will built it.
These stimuli go from administrative and fiscal incentives to allowing the construction of more [...]
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An Energetically efficient building is the one that minimizes the use of conventional energies, in order to save energy. Energetic efficiency results from the quotient between useful energy (or used by a system) and the total used energy.
It is necessary to establish a criterion to define the total used energy. It is also [...]
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Households must produce their own energy to operate the heater, air conditioner, water boiler and their light. Plus they should have additional energy to drive an electric car.
“This houses prove that we could built houses with less energy consumption not having to give up our current comfortable lifestyle”, said the ministry of energy, Samuel W. [...]
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