The first thing students attending the new Twenhofel Middle School in Independence, KY, do when they arrive at school each day is watch TV. But the programming broadcast on the 42-in. plasma screen TV at the school's main entrance lobby isn't be the usual teenage fare. In-stead, students eagerly interact with a touchscreen menu to call up "Vital Signs" screens to see which grade is winning the ongoing monthly energy conservation contest. Or they might monitor the effects the previous night's rainfall had on replenishing the school's rainwater collection system. Or they might call up a "Vital Signs" screen that shows the dollar savings in energy and the pounds of power plant CO2 emissions that the school has saved through its innovative daylighting and solar PV systems.
For Marvin Richer of Brock Equipment, it was clear they were "throwing good money after bad" by continually spending time and money on their old, deteriorating galvanized metal-lined cooling tower that supports the facil-ity's HVAC equipment installed in 1950.
Southern California is known for both its sun-drenched beaches and businesses that help champion the environment by adopting the latest innovations. In keeping with that philosophy, a major food processor recently switched its large hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) R-22 refrigeration system over to Honeywell Genetron® AZ-50® R-507. The retrofit was one of the largest of its kind and required more than 27,000 lb of Honeywell's product.
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