...Implementation of commercial energy saving controls in the home environment. Prepared for: Christopher McCulloch MSTM 4060 Instructor Memorial University of Newfoundland Prepared by: Ray Bursey Student number: 200207546 Due: July 24, 2011 Prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements of MSTM 4060: Advanced Technical Communications 31 Concord Rd Conception Bay South, NL, A1X 2C1 July 24, 2011 Mr. Christopher McCulloch Instructor, Advanced Technical Communications Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland PO BOX ??? St. John's, NL, A1C5R3 Dear Mr. McCulloch, In response to your request during April 2011, I have prepared the following report entitled Implementation of Commercial Energy Saving Controls in the Home Environment. As the title of the report suggests, energy saving controls commonly used in the commercial sector are possible and can prove very beneficial. Home automation is a growing field in which research is being conducted at an increasing rate. This report concerning the home automation field makes reference to industry specific and moderately technical terms; therefore to assist with information presented, a glossary has been included in Appendix A. I have enjoyed working on this report and look forward to presenting the findings in the upcoming PowerPoint presentation portion of the course the week of July 25th, 2011. In the meantime, should there be any questions about the report you can contact me...
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...reason why conserving energy is important is because we can save our environment and our climate from further damage. Not only will conserving energy assist in our environment but it will also save everyone money. In order to conserve energy we first need to know the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources and the methods we can use to help conserve energy. Non-renewable resources include oil, coal, natural gases, and nuclear energy. Non-renewable refers to not being able to replace these sources once they run out. Non-renewable resources are harmful to our environment because of all their chemicals such as when burning pollutes our air and their leaks and spills pollute our ocean. Renewable resources include solar power, wind energy, biomass fermentation, tidal energy, and a few more. Renewable energy generates directly from the sun, wind, rain, and tides. The use of renewable technologies will help save money and boost our economy in the process. Here are a few methods to help conserve energy indoors: 1. Turn off the lights and electronics when they are not in use. 2. Use energy saving light bulbs. 3. Insulate doors and windows. Three methods that will help the environment in the process are: 1. Planting trees 2. Recycling 3. Driving less The government’s effort to help conserve has many applications to assist our environment. “Opportunities for energy conservation are increasingly available...
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...Thomas French about the elephants brought to Lowry Park Zoo in Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captivities. The elephants are being saved from culling by transfer them from Swaziland to Lowry Park Zoo. Similar to the Vancouver Island Marmots, the elephants are also declining as culling continues in Swaziland. Since elephants are intelligent and strong, they tend to destroy their habitat unintentionally. Beside cull practice, there are also others threat that the elephants endure in the wild, such as being shot by the hunters. Thus, by putting these wild animals in the zoos, it would save the elephants from being killed cruelly and from the brink of extinction. Through the effort of saving the elephants, we are also protecting the environment from getting damaged by this animal. The rationale for saving Vancouver Island Marmots and elephants are similar because of their status as endangered species and also because of their lost...
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...can save our environment from further damage, conserving energy will also save our community money. We need to know the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources, and what methods we need to take to conserve energy. Non – renewable resources are oil, coal, natural gases, and nuclear energy; non - renewable means that once we run out it cannot be replaced. These non-renewable resources are also harmful to our environment with their chemicals when burning fills our air, and their leaks and spills of oil in our ocean. Renewable resources are solar power, wind, biomass, tidal energy, and a few more; renewable energy generates directly from the sun, wind, rain, and tides. Renewable technologies will save money and boost our economy in the process. Each of you can help save energy indoors by: 1. turning off lights and electronics when not in use 2. use energy saving light bulbs 3. insulating your doors, and windows and the environment by: 4. plant trees 5. recycle 6. drive less The government effort in conservation has many applications for helping our environment. “Opportunities for energy conservation are increasingly available in almost every application in any setting. Home, school, office, and industrial environments have all benefited from cost-saving and energy-saving innovations” (U.S. environmental Protection Agency, 2009). To conclude our meeting today, I want to thank you all for coming, and I hope each one of you will help in saving energy, and...
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...Background Companies’ environment consists of forces and trends that shape opportunities and pose threats. Some of those factors cannot be changed or influenced by the company. This is the “macro environment” of the company. And the issues are “uncontrollable” factors to which, the company has to monitor and respond. One of the factors is the Social-Cultural environment. The society shapes the way people think, evaluate, and behave. People unconsciously absorb a point of view from the society that helps them define and rationalize their relationships to themselves, to others, to organizations, to society, to nature and to the universe. These things are “uncontrollable”. Marketers have to pay attention to these factors and adopt necessary changes accordingly. The company more successful to evaluate predicts and copes with the changes, will more likely to become a successful one. Education savings scheme Prime bank ltd. is one of the leading fully licensed commercial banks in Bangladesh. It has introduced a Savings Scheme entitled “Education Savings Scheme” in accordance with the principles of Islamic Sariah i.e., on the basis of profit and loss sharing. This scheme is a result of Prime Bank’s observing the ‘Social-Cultural’ environment and reacting accordingly. The sides of social cultural environment the bank has fulfilled are mentioned below. View of themselves In the matter of “self-gratification”, people differ in how they seek to satisfy their inner self. Some people...
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...Doing Better by the Environment A Nestlé case study Introduction The environment is a key subject that affects us all. Protection of the environment and the move towards sustainable development remains a responsibility that must be shared between the public, governments and the private sector. Following years of work on environmental issues dating back to the 30's, in 1996 the Nestlé Environmental Management System (NEMS) was introduced which consolidates all environmental measures taken by the Nestlé Group. NEMS is now used to ensure continuous improvement in Nestlé's environmental performance covering all its business activities. This case study examines the background to sustainable development, the environment and its protection. It also looks at how Nestlé S.A., the world's leading food company, developed a policy and current business practices that reduce the company's effect on the environment. Sustainable Development The latter part of the twentieth century saw an increasing concern for the environment. The concept of sustainable development (as defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987) is: "development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." There are many views about the nature of sustainability. In its simplest form it is about ensuring a better quality of life for everyone, now and for future generations. To achieve this, sustainable...
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...Doing Better by the Environment Sustainable development INTRODUCTION Rio and after The latter part of the twentieth century saw an increasing concern for the environment. The concept of “sustainable development” (as defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987) is: By the early 1990s there was considerable pressure for governments to create agreements concerning the environment and its protection. The environment is a key subject that affects us all. Protection of the environment and the move towards sustainable development remains a responsibility that must be shared between the public, governments and the private sector. “development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This case study examines the background to sustainable development, the environment and its protection. It also looks at how Nestlé S.A., the world’s leading food company, developed a policy and current business practices that reduce the company’s effect on the environment. Following years of work on environmental issues dating back to the 30’s, in 1996 the Nestlé Environmental Management System (NEMS) was introduced which consolidates all environmental measures taken by the Nestlé Group. NEMS is now used to ensure continuous improvement in Nestlé’s environmental performance covering all its business activities. There are many views about the...
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...city operates 72 physical servers, a storage environment and 350 end-user computers. The IT director has been tasked to identify where the elimination, replacement, or addition of technology would result in cost savings to the city. In order to save the city money, it has been determined that the best solution would be to implement a virtualized IT environment in the city of Seabreeze. Virtualization is the means to create a virtual version of a device or resource, such as a server, storage device, network or even an operating system where the framework divides the resource into one more execution environments. (Virtualization, n.d) a1. The virtualization of the IT environment would have a big positive impact in terms of long term cost savings for the city of Seabreeze. The city would have a benefit of reducing capital and overall operating costs. As the servers and storage environment is consolidated and virtualized, fewer devices would be needed. Fewer devices means a smaller power requirement which is an immediate savings for the city. This also means less space would be needed. Virtualization allows for multiple devices to be managed from a single device. Less administrators would be needed to manage the environment, this would save the city on payroll. Fewer servers being used also means the less space is required. The space recovered can be used to serve other purposes for the city. In addition to the savings related to the virtualization, the technology...
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...THREE YEAR MARKETING PLAN ECO BUTTON INVENT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Invent technology solutions had plan to launch the new computer based energy saving device which also prevents carbon emissions which will be known as the ECO BUTTON, this product is made from recycled plastic, image can be seen below. Our goal is to achieve 100% customer satisfaction so our focus will be based on product quality with reasonable price. we will be the first company to enter in this specific industry so to take advantage of first mover advantage we will do substantial promotion to gain maximum market share before any competitors arise. Our consumer will be computer and laptops users they will have to spend only £15. The computer and laptops users waste money during their devices are ideal and instead of leaving the devices ideal the user can press the eco button and save energy, money and prevent carbon emissions. MISSION STATEMENT :INVENT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION endeavours to become the number one leader in energy saving at no cost to the environment and to make a change in green thinking.Invent technology will provide a safe and rewarding working environment for all employees , in order to achieve market leadership. MARKET OVERVIEW (MACRO ENVIRONMENTS) POLITICAL: the political environments are in favour of the product as the government of Norway is giving priority to green products and aims to become a carbon neutral country.so the eco button is good in political...
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...argumentative speech about the environment. First of all, most organization of preserving nature called for saving animals, and trees. They never called for saving humans; even though, we are getting harmed just like them due to the environmental change. Don’t we have to save ourselves in first place? Saving human? No that’s not included we are not up on the saving list yet. It is time to worry about others not human. But why we are always have to deal with all of this? We need to keep in mind that the environment plays big part in what is happening to the earth. It is an environmental system, but we don’t have control over it obviously. So how can we be the only party who are blame for environmental change? The nature play it’s rule too, we can’t deny that. For example, earth quick’s, volcanos, mini earth quick’s, and hurricanes are considered as natural disaster too. These disasters had been exist long time ago, even before industrial revolution and carbon dioxide emissions. The planet is not the only party who are getting damage because of nature disaster, we are too. The research shows billions of people who had died due to nature disaster....
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...American Economy: How Saving is Saving Us From Inflation Mark Nasca „12 Colgate University April 30th, 2012 Abstract Following the Great Recession (2007-09), the Federal Reserve (Fed) utilized monetary policy instruments that had never been used in previous economic recoveries. With interest rates near zero, the Fed undertook rounds of quantitative easing (QE), a non-standard policy, in an attempt to stimulate the economy and help bring the nation out of the recession. In this study, the theoretical model presented by Nasca (2011) will be expanded to show that price level can be stabilized when saving and the money supply increase in tandem, all else constant. Following the theoretical discussion, this study will then utilize an intertemporal model with heterogeneous agents to describe the U.S. economy in order to analyze factors affecting consumer saving decisions when QE policies are enacted following an economic crisis. The goal of this model is to show how the saving decision is affected by the enactment of QE in a crisis environment, given the lower prevailing interest rate scenario and elevated levels of economic instability. This study finds that the increase in saving rate observed in the unfavorable rate environment can potentially be attributed to the increased uncertainty in future income expectations and heightened levels of risk aversion that are characteristic of a post-crisis economy. This serves as a theoretical justification for why saving has risen during this...
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...address identify a piece of technology that can be used at XYZ Company. The requirements of this tool is that is must be relevant within the last five years, widely accepted in the IT industry, and implemented and supported at a low cost. The tool must show the ability to make a positive impact to our business areas (Marketing, Accounting, Sales, and Quality Assurance). After extensive research, Virtualization has been recommended as the technology that meets the requirements stated above. In reviewing potential vendors, VMware is the recommended choice due to their market share and offerings. VMware provides significant savings in cost, increased application availability, and desktop management. By moving to VMware, we reduce cost by not having to spend money on additional server hardware. Multiple applications can be installed to one machine, saving hardware costs. This in turn reduces our server footprint, reducing cost with space, power, cooling, and additional IT Staff to support the hardware. Research shows that these costs are reduced by 20-30%. By increasing application availability, we provide a stronger online presence. We can now improve our uptime availability online,...
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...a means of transportation for many years, up until the use of cars started becoming more frequent. However, although cars are a good and refreshing invention that makes it quicker for us to move around, the use of a bicycle is much more convenient for the environment, for your wallet since you are saving money and for your health. An important component that affects our life is the environment which is why bike riding is beneficial to keeping the environment a good place for all of those who live in it. Riding your bicycle can help out with the environment since it doesn’t run on anything but your own physical power, while a car releases CO2 because it needs to run on gas. A car uses “[… ] fossil fuels such as gasoline and diesel to transport people [it] is the second largest source of CO2 emissions, accounting for about 32% of total U.S. CO2 emissions” Since a bicycle doesn’t occupy gas like a car does, it doesn’t release any other toxins, like a car which, in addition to CO2 also release “…carbon dioxide (CO2 ), automobiles produce methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)” The result of releases of methane to the environment makes it “more efficient at trapping radiation” which ultimately is deleterious to the environment, but can be prevented from being released if we use our bicycles as an alternative to get from place to place. In an article found on the National Geographic page, it is stated that “Engine “warm-up” means short trips are by far the worst polluters—and those...
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...Submitted By: Lyka Mae B. Ayad 8-Fleming Submitted To: Mrs. Marenissa Asensi Why do we need to protect the environment? By: Lyka Mae B. Ayad The rise in temperature of the Earth may seem nothing to you, however they have devastating impacts on all of our lives. I daresay, our lives are threatened! Natural disasters such as heat waves will happened often due to the increase in temperature. All of us should be very thankful because we are blessed with such a beautiful environment to live in. Even so, the environment we are granted with may not last for a long period if we do not take necessary actions to save it. We must realize that each one of us is responsible and plays a role in saving the environment. Many people tend to question the reasons for saving the environment. There are several reasons why we need to save the environment; that is to prevent the extinction of living organism, to prevent global warming, and to preserve Mother Nature. Firstly, saving the environment will help to prevent the extinction of living organism. Living organism refers mainly to the wildlife and also the plants which is the source of oxygen.. For example, wildlife needs certain habitats to survive or will become extinct if their habitats are destroyed. Before we even damage the environment, we should question ourselves, wouldn’t it hurt our eyes to see those cute bears, birds or insects become extinct? Plus, it would be a shame if we...
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...the things that can still be repaired/fixed or those things that are still okay. Recycle things to conserve our resources, collect old newspapers, books, magazines, used papers, bottles (plastic and glass), and any other things that you could sell in junkyards. There is money in garbage and at the same time we’re doing our part in recycling process. Be responsible with your garbage, dispose them properly. Also try to use segregation scheme with your trashes, separate those decomposable from those that are not. You may utilize a compost pit to house all of your organic trashes and eventually use this as your fertilizer for your backyard garden or to your plants. Do the traditional way of helping to conserve our environment by virtue of avoiding smoke-belching, saving electrical energy by employing tips (like regular cleaning of our bulb and fluorescent light in our home, use only appliances when needed, avoiding dripping of water from our faucets, and reporting any case of broken water pipelines to local government). Learn how to appreciate nature and her gifts to mankind and support any environmental campaigns that will help nurture...
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