Sunday, December 11, 2011

LEED Home

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The previous home was modified to reach a LEED Gold Rating. Changes to the home include: increased outer wall thickness, addition of blown-...

Basic Home

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A 1000 Square foot house was designed using geothermal for the heating and cooling system. A load calculation was performed and includes los...

Carbon Footprint

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Assuming that the energy used in Iowa City comes from Coal a normal air-forced heating and cooling home uses 5.25 tons of CO2 on electricity...
Monday, October 31, 2011

LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

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LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.  LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system. ...

Residential Energy Usage

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This section of the blog will be dedicated to the analysis of the energy needs of a typical 1000 sq ft home in Iowa City, Iowa. The heating ...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Energy Efficiency

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Energy efficiency is a topic that has been around for a long time. If company A and company B both make a TV and company A’s is more effici...

Carbon Sink

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A carbon sink is described by Wikipedia as “a natural or artificial reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical co...

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Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency is the goal of efforts to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. An exa...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Feasible Energy Plan for The Netherlands

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Now that the energy being consumed has been determined for The Netherlan ds and the theoretical maximum renewable energy has been estimated,...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Comparing Fuels Sources for Electricity Production

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This table gives information on using different types of energy sources for production of electricity. The information has been obtained fro...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Wave To calculate the wave energy of the Netherlands a couple of item are needed. The length of coastline, the population and the power in o...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Green Stack - The Netherlands

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Wind To determine the possibility of powering a portion of The Netherlands on wind energy, the amount of wind power that can be derived from...

Cost of Production vs Operation

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This is a 2000 Chevy Malibu. The average fuel economy has been found to be 30 MPG. The yearly mileage for the vehicle is know to be 30,000 m...