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This is how technology will save our planet!

Aug 5, 2016, 16:42 IST
From heating and cooling to gadgets and apparatuses, it takes a great deal of energy to control our every day lives. Our homes utilize 37 percent more energy today than they did in 1980. In any case, without energy output - through technology development and government energy preservation gauges - this number would be a great deal higher. Actually, despite the fact that our summative energy use has developed, our energy use per family unit is down around 10 percent, regardless of that our homes are bigger and contain more devices.
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Because of achievements by our labs, industry and the educated community, hardware we use in our homes is more energy efficient than any time in recent memory, sparing money and slicing carbon pollution.
So what’s stopping clean energy from going mainstream?

Time: Settling all phases of bankable audits requires months and years instead of weeks and days in different areas of high technology. At-scale information accumulation, regularly for over 12 months, is a key component to accomplish item accreditation and meet necessities of autonomous designing audits. These accreditations and surveys are real inputs to accomplish bankability.

Capital: Testing, and creating at-scale exhibit activities is as of now capital serious. Be that as it may, keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish up to 20 year lifetime necessities for vast scale energy technology arrangements, numerous more prerequisites have must be met. Also, the capital required for set-up (for the consumer) is too high. Let’s take solar panels for instance, they require lakhs of rupees just for the panels, also the engineer cost (one who’ll supervise the panel setup).

The excitement for renewable types of energy has taken something of a battering as of late, with government appropriations being curtailed and investor opinion going tepid. The conclusion is that there should be a rush of technological advances in the renewable energy sector for the businesses to get back on track.
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From solar farms to onshore wind, governments in developed nations have downsized a considerable lot of their more aggressive renewable energy projects, for more reliable – if all the more contaminating – fossil powers. People should start taking environment degradation as a real threat and be smart in adaption clean energy technologies.

So what exactly?

Smart Homes: The culture of smart homes is not here yet, but then it will be. Now, these homes will be interconnected with all your gadgets working inside the house—connected to internet. Which inturn will help users to save electricity, water etc just by notifying them how to. It’ll be easy because everything will be connected to user’s phone through an app.

Magnetic Refrigerators: Yes, you heard it right. Cooling through magnets, this will not only save your electricity but also reduce the carbon footprint by not releasing CFC (Chloro Floro Carbon). From past 100 years we’ve relied on traditional refrigerators using vapour compression that harms the environment. This new technology is a beginning of a revolution as it uses water based- cooling fluid, making it better for the environment and keeping electricity bills low.

Lighting: For quite sometime it has been said that changing to LED lighting is the approach keeping in mind the end goal to reduce energy utilization and costs. Currently consumers are making a stride further by controlling energy-proficient lighting with specially crafted hardware that can alter changes from anyplace. Rather than leaving a light on at home while in the midst of some recreation, more individuals are modifying different lights around the house and go ahead at specific times to make it seem as though they are home.
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ePlug: This is not just a concept anymore, many devices are available in the market that offer the exact amount of energy required for a device to run or charge. This can save you over Rs 5,000-10,000 every year.

Reflective Roofing: Cool rooftops covered with materials containing specific pigments reflect daylight and assimilate less warmth than standard rooftops. Expect these sorts of rooftop frameworks to get considerably "cooler" because of new fluorescent colors created that can reflect almost four times the measure of daylight of standard shades. For places with a little warm temperature people wouldn’t consider installing even fans at home, once this goes mainstream.

Bringing new energy technologies into the commercial stages is tough. In any case, the five patterns portrayed above catch a preview of the positive advancement to move the mindset in the energy businesses from long-cycle, incremental upgrades to quick, leap forward commercialization. With worldwide multi-partner assentions, open private collaboration has a strengthened its command. Save energy, Save Humanity!
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