She negotiated innovative swaps in
which water savings in one place could be conveyed to another.
Not exact matches
McDonald's Canada rolled out the new supplies to the entire nation, reducing its energy, wood and
water consumption, resulting in an annual approximate
savings of $ 1.3 million for the whole McDonald's Canada system,
which means
savings for the customers.
The Paterson administration said linking the parks measure with the EPF —
which pays for initiatives such as buying land for preservation, plus
water cleanup efforts, urban forestry and recycling — was the only way to realize the
savings needed to help balance the $ 9.2 billion deficit.
«If you use up some of your
savings toward prepaying your interest,
which makes your payment lower on a monthly basis, you have less
savings if the
water heater breaks,» he pointed out.
The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of
which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major
water consumption, and little
savings in net CO2 emissions (
which are plant food anyway.)
For general information on
savings, the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC), publishes Solar Energy Factors,
which can be used to compare different solar systems (with electric backup only) to other
water heaters under national average weather conditions.
The prototype system
which couples a solar hot
water heater with a tankless
water heater plus small storage tank and circulator, is expected to provide energy
savings,
water savings, and increased temperature control at the domestic taps at a small incremental cost relative to the same solar hot
water heater coupled with only a tankless
water heater.
The 18th Party Congress highlighted trading of various environmental commodities — energy
savings, carbon emission rights, pollution discharge rights and
water rights — all of
which will have a national cap, except carbon emissions.
Between July and September 2015 — the only period for
which researchers could get overlapping
water and energy data — they found that the
water conservation measures resulted in a
savings of 460 gigawatt hours (GWh).
Fast - forward to 2015, and a startup called Nebia has now picked up where Fuller left off (sort of), with the launch of its revolutionary showerhead,
which uses a similar technology, although without the compressed air component, to deliver radical
water savings in the shower.
Highlights of the building's sustainability achievements include an Energy Star rating of 93,
which places the building in the top 7 percent of similar buildings in terms of energy efficiency; use of highly - efficient plumbing fixtures providing
water savings of approximately 17 percent; modifications to the building's irrigation system provide a 74 percent reduction in
water use for irrigation, as well as a dedicated meter to monitor ongoing performance; recycling efforts resulting in a 45 percent diversion rate of recyclables from landfill of ongoing consumable waste and a 100 percent diversion rate of durable goods from entering the waste stream; an integrated pest management plan incorporating non-toxic measures for animal and vegetative pest control; and a green cleaning pProgram, implemented as part of a comprehensive building - wide indoor air quality program.
A bigger
water savings may come from Cyber-Rain XC,
which lets you hand over the chore of
watering your lawn to your Windows PC.