The Oil Drum | Discussions about Energy and Our Future. Featured Blog Posts | Renewable Energy World. ACEEE Blog. Late on Friday, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed new efficiency standards for commercial icemakers, which make the ice provided by drink dispensers in fast food restaurants among many other uses. While the proposed standards would be a significant step toward improving icemaker efficiency, higher cost-effective efficiency levels could be achieved using commercially available technologies. At a fast food restaurant, icemakers typically sit on top of the fountain drink dispensers. Commercial icemakers are also used in places like hotels, hospitals, and convenience stores. DOE estimates that icemakers meeting the proposed standards sold over thirty years would reduce U.S. electricity consumption by about 30 billion kilowatt-hours, which is equivalent to the annual electricity use of three million U.S. homes, and save businesses $1.8 billion.
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Mel Starrs Elemental blog. Elemental was created by Mel Starrs in 2006 to share her ideas and thinking about sustainability in the built environment. Mel wrote passionately on a wide range of subjects, from Engineering and Science to Economics, Policy Landscape and she also found plenty of time for Fun. Consuming and writing about so much information while enjoying a succesful career demanded a parallel interest in Productivity. You can explore Mel’s writing on a diverse range of topics using the links to the right of the page.
A graduate of University of Leeds, Mel was an expert in Building Physics and Green Building Ratings such as BREEAM, LEED and Code for Sustainable Homes. She was a frequent attendee and speaker at industry events where she enjoyed raising and debating industry issues. On 14 July 2012, aged just 38, Mel suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed and died at her home in North London. Please continue adding your thoughts and opinions to the articles. Thinkers / Ekant Veer (Blog) - Ekant's Veernacular. Jun. 22, 2013 9:20 pm In my mind, there's no point being in Higher Education unless you're willing to advance knowledge through research. Teaching and administration have their place in aiding the dissemination of knowledge, but knowledge creation through research is why I'm at a research university and not a teaching institution.
But there's something wrong with the academic system that has started to see the light -... Read More Apr. 21, 2013 11:32 am This is the last of a three part series I’ve written to do with reviewing. Apr. 12, 2013 10:06 am My last post discussed how to respond to reviewers and I had a few people ask about what steps I take to actually review papers; so, I thought I'd put down my thoughts for those who are faced with the job of reviewing a paper for a conference or journal. Apr. 7, 2013 4:03 am One part of my job that I quite enjoy is reviewing works in progress sent to me by editors of journals or conference Chairs.
Dec. 16, 2012 5:21 pm Dec. 10, 2012 2:32 pm. Constructive women. EU Energy Policy Blog. 70+ Resources on How to Start a WordPress Blog. 7 Tips for Creating Posts That Will Spread on Social Media. Last week, I wrote about the process of how I create a blog post from idea to promotion. Today, we’re going to focus in on what it takes for a post to achieve one specific goal: getting lots of shares on social media. If you want a post that is going to spread like wildfire, you have to consider the following when creating your content to ensure that your post will be given extra social media love. 1. Write something that everyone can follow. Your first goal in creating a post that has the potential to go viral on social media is to make the content easily consumable by the largest audience possible.
If your post is a tutorial, for example, you need to write it in a way that someone new to the process could get started easily with your directions while also including tips and tricks that people who are familiar with the process might not have learned yet. 2. You’ve seen them – the kinds of posts where, after you’ve read it, your next goal was to find out more information. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Creating a Successful Blog Post – From Idea to Promotion. Some people think blogging is as simple as thinking up a great idea, punching out a couple hundred words, publishing it, tweeting about it, and then being done with it. Others think blogging is a complex activity that is reserved for those who have some kind of gift. The reality is, it is something in between. It’s about ideas, processes, and strategy. It’s about being passionate about a particular topic. It’s about the synergy of taking what is in your head and translating it to make sense to the masses.
So how do you create a blog post? The Idea Stage Ideas hit me all the time – they happen offline when I’m at a conference (for example I will have a TON of ideas during Blog World sessions guaranteed), driving, shopping, or even playing with my dog. The key to making your idea stage manageable (especially if you have a lot of rogue ideas that come into your mind all of the time) is to take all of those ideas and get them into one place. The Writing Stage The SEO Stage The Publishing Stage. 5 Steps to Submitting a Guest Post & Getting It Published. Blogging – How to Blog, Blog Marketing, and Blogging Tips.