Bractlet: Developing Digital Clones of Buildings to Lower Energy Use

Like every individual, every building is unique. How do you efficiently and reliably save energy consumption of something so intricate? An American start-up provides a digital solution.

Construction and building are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide, with 28 percent of these coming from the energy used to cool, heat, and light the buildings. The 11% comes from construction procedures and materials. Cement, by way of instance, has an enormous carbon footprint – equal to around 8 percent of the planet’s carbon dioxide emissions. If the cement market were a country, it would be the 3rd largest emitter in the world!… Read More

Seeing that July was the hottest month worldwide since record-keeping started 140 years back is not the time for zero-carbon energy generation to slow down. That’s specifically what occurred in the first half of 2019 in America. In actuality, renewable energy generation declined 1.1% by the year-ago period, based on recently released data compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The conclusion is far from absolute, but it should only be a short-term hiccup. There were other fine details in the EIA dataset, including the remarkable collapse of coal-fired power plants. And the flexibility of America’s decreasing fleet of nuclear reactors. Here are the reasons why the decline happened and why investors shouldn’t worry.… Read More

Roadways could develop into major energy sources under a government-funded plan to build roads out of solar panels.

Asphalt roads and car parks would be torn apart and restored with glass solar cell panels capable of producing enough power to support local population, under the scheme.

The US Department of Transportation has bestowed a grant of $100,000 on a US firm which is currently working on a prototype panel which can be embedded into existing roads.… Read More