{"id":809,"date":"2016-10-24T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priorclavena.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2020-01-31T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:02:33","slug":"like-hot-want-save-energy-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en\/2016\/10\/24\/like-hot-want-save-energy-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Like It Hot\u2014And Some Want to Save Energy and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have we squandered our natural resources beyond the point of no return? NOAA has monthly recorded record high temps across the planet for more than a year.<\/a>\u00a0It can\u2019t all be blamed on El Ni\u00f1o. NASA scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies reported that the first six months of 2016 were the warmest since they started keeping records in 1880.<\/a>\u00a0Deke Arndt, the head of the climate monitoring division at NOAA\u2019s National Centers for Environmental Information, told Scientific American, about the rising surface temperature, “We\\’ve left the 20th century far behind. This is a big deal.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 2015 Stanford University plug-load study<\/a>\u00a0speaks to the concern the scientific community has about how we can conserve resources. Lead researcher Moira Hafer found that lab equipment used 50% of the plug load energy measured in the study, and computers and monitors used 36%. The other six categories\u2014Kitchen and Breakroom, Office Occupant Comfort, Printers and Scanners, Audio\/Video, Gym and Training Equipment, and Laundry Equipment\u2014were together responsible for the remaining 19%.<\/p>\n

Non-profit My Green Lab conducted a in-depth study of plug-load, focusing on labs:<\/p>\n