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Agilewaves Inc, a California based IT company, has created the Resource Monitor (shown above) which displays a building’s performance. Their first client, Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA built green, incorporating such things as solar-electric panels and a living roof. When they wanted to measure the performance, they went to Agilewaves.
Keeping track of performance [...]

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What can Microsoft, Intel, Dell, and others teach the solar industry? Many think the solar industry could learn a lot from the chip world. It all goes back to what is known as Moore’s Law, made famous by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. Moore’s Law states that as technology improvements advance, the price [...]

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Remember the post I put up a week or so ago about green hacking? Well my source is a Do-It-Yourselfer out of Vermont, Ben Hewitt, who is living off the grid. Since his energy needs came from a gas generator (much more expensive than electical bills) and his entire system must be maintained [...]

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