TSA employees took payments of up to $2,400 to provide drug couriers unfettered access at LAX over a six-month period last year.
Up to $2,400 bucks. That's less than the cost of a first class ticket for the average Joe who doesn't want to deal with TSA. It's also well within the budget of a terrorist organization. That's awfully cheap.
That's a bit like me building a big garage, installing a big-ass natural gas generator and saying my building returns power to the grid.
LEED doesn't recognize natural gas, coal, or large-impact hydro (like Hoover Dam) as sources of renewable energy. So while you could still LEED certify you're building with a natural gas harvester, or a coal fired power plant, or an oil rig (assuming the oil rig isn't movable and has a mailing address per the LEED minimum project requirements), you will have to do so without achieving the "On-site renewable energy" credit.
Also that being said, LEED projects are based on a theoretical energy modeling protocol that is full of holes and easily gamed. Per TFA the building hasn't even opened yet. I'd like to see an article after a year of operation stating the building does actually produce more energy than it consumes or if the energy model was full of crap and this is just a bunch of marketing hyperbole for the architect.
Same. $3 per year is reasonable to save on energy costs. Unfortunately my "7-year" CFL bulbs died in 1 - 2 years.
Keep in mind too that if you live in an area that requires cooling most of the year, using a light bulb that puts out less heat savings on cooling energy, and makes your house more comfortable.
The other thing, of course, is that the company might be installing them just to get this kind of "look how much we care about your data" type of publicity...
This is exactly what they're after.
I worked in Salt Lake City during the Olympics and the local news was talking about how we should expect our commute times to triple, especially if travelling around the venues. My commute went through Salt Lake City and Park City, past a ton of the venues, and I was expecting a nightmare. I ended up leaving 2 hours early and arrived to work 2 hours early the first day. After that I just left at normal time, the nightmare transportation scenario didn't pan out at all..
A) restocking fee for opened items that are not defective.
This is already in place, or maybe this is on bigger ticket items only, but the last few things I've bought from Best Buy had a big yellow piece of tap across the opening that says if this tape is cut and you return the item there will be a 15% restocking fee.
for example, the people who buy a giant TV before the big game and then return it on Monday.
How does this system eliminate that example? The customer was still able to return the Blu-Ray.
Won't be long before Best Buy joins Circuit City.
Airlines that predominately do short flights (like Hawaiian does) would find it much easier to be on time than an airline that runs longer duration filghts.
How so? Skywest flies mostly short routes and they had an on-time performance of 79.3%. The airport is where planes get delayed, not in between destinations. A 12 hour flight with the plane on auto-pilot would be a lot more predictable than dealing with an airport/passengers/bags >1 times in the same length of time.
How do you propose to enforce this magic?
Really? The same way they do at the airport.
Maybe instead of an online first-come first-serve process Google should hold a ticket lottery for those who want to attend, That will help get the tickets into the hand of pre-qualified developers instead of eBay ticket scalpers.
That won't help. They need to print your name on the ticket. If your ID doesn't match the name on the ticket, you don't get in.
This implies that the LED is acting as a heat pump, converting heat energy into light. The result is maybe good enough for cooling a few molecules of beer
I'm going to laugh when someone starts telling me to turn *on* my lights to keep my house cool.
On a more serious note, right now a 2.3 COP heat pump doesn't meet minimum code efficiency standards at AHRI conditions. When they figure out how to make this large enough to cool a home, hopefully heat pump technology will have advanced well beyond current COP. It would be a cool dual function, lighting and cooling, maybe in a car where daytime running lights are required by law and gas engines always need cooling?
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