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  • Their product, Lost Joules, is a competitive stock-market style game that enables users to place bets on energy consumption data using virtual currency.

    Announcing the Green:Net Launchpad10! 2009

  • If they were at 100 degrees F, and now they average about 50 degrees F, that means they needed to loose about 13e28 Joules, which is a lot of energy.

    Kirk Cameron on the spot - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Mind Your Watts and Joules According to the Energy Saving Trust, heating rooms and water in a household amounts to between 50% and 70% of total household energy use.

    Earth Savings Javier Espinoza 2011

  • Richter Scale Energy Released in Joules Comment 2.0 1.3 x 108 Smallest earthquake detectable by people.

    Earthquake 2010

  • At super efficient white LED gives around 100 Lumens per Watt of electrical input (depending on color), so to get 600-800 lumens would require at least 5 Watts and 5Watts is 5 Joules per second so 2000 Joules gives you 2000/5 or 400 seconds worth of light – less than 7 minutes.

    GREENER GADGETS WINNERS ANNOUNCED! | Inhabitat 2008

  • I estimate about a 20 lb force for a meter of rotation, or a generous 100 Joules.

    Generate Energy with Fluxxlab’s ‘Revolution’ Revolving Door | Inhabitat 2008

  • I would double check your units though, I think that a 30 minute workout would generate energy, given in Joules or Kilowatt-hours.

    RevRev Makes Energy Generating Gyms a Reality | Inhabitat 2010

  • Noberto R. Keppe, in his book: The New Physics – states that de Broglie, Bohm and Vigler all thought that at absolute zero (0 Kelvin = -459.67 degrees F) each cubic centimeter anywhere in the universe contains 1027 Joules of energy.

    PERPETUAL COMMOTION 6-23-09 Update 2009

  • This corresponds to 772 ft lbs × 1.356 J/ft lb = 59,453.6 Calories or 1 cal = 4.15 Joules; this is in close agreement with the current accepted value of 1 cal = 4.184 J.

    Joule, James Prescott 2009

  • A slight quibble with bbartlog – the 4.184 factor is Joules/calorie – a Watt is still just a Joule/sec.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Vampiric Regeneration 2009

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