Beberapa Tips untuk Menghemat Energi!

Anda bisa menghemat hingga 85% tagihan energi bulanan Anda dengan membuat beberapa upgrade efisiensi sederhana, kata Jeff Wilson, ahlinya ‘Do It Yourself’ yang menjadi host lebih dari 200 episode di stasiun seperti HGTV.

Pertama, gantilah bola lampu pijar Anda dengan yang lebih tahan lama, seperti LED, dan sekarang harganya lebih terjangkau .”Lampu LED mempunyai kualitas cahaya yang kuat,” kata Wilson. “Cahaya lampu LED bisa diredupkan, dengan demikian Anda bisa menghemat antara 70 hingga 90% biaya energi Anda. Melalui tempat lampu di langit-langit rumah, bukalah tutup bola lampu, lalu pasang adaptor LED, dan hubungkan ke bagian belakang rumah! Ada empat pegas menahan lampu LED di tempatnya.”

Mungkin banyak dari Anda mungkin sudah bahwa LED ini hemat energi, tapi bisa jadi Anda belum pernah mendengar tentang unit pemulihan panas di saluran-air mandi. Kedengarannya rumit? Tidak sama sekali! Perangkat ini menggunakan kembali panas dari air yang mengalir masuk ke saluran dengan mengumpulkan panas pada kumparan terpisah.

 "Air bekas mandi disalurkan ke sekitar pipa tembaga utama. Panas yang ada dari air mandi ditransfer ke jalur masuk air dingin. Itu berarti Anda akan menggunakan lebih sedikit air panas dari tangki air panas untuk mandi Anda. Ini artinya menghemat (sekitar) 40 persen air panas, " jelas Wilson.

Sistem pemanas dapat dipasang dengan biaya kurang dari $400 dan uang ini bakal kembali kurang dari dua tahun! Jadi keluarkan uang receh Anda sekarang. Simpan uang besar nanti. Dan mandilah dengan air panas beruap!

Terakhir, spray insolator pelapis, yang membantu pemilik rumah menyimpan panas selama musim dingin, menyimpan dingin saat musim panas, dan tagihan energi akan Anda pun bakal berkurang. Kotak ‘Do It Yourself’ tersedia dengan harga sekitar $200.  Semprotkan pelapis di sekitar bingkai pintu, di ruang bawah tanah, di loteng, di mana saja yang menurut Anda ada kebocoran.

Beberapa orang, seperti halnya Wilson, bahkan melapisi seluruh rumah mereka dengan insulator baru ini, menciptakan medan gaya energi! “Ini jauh lebih efektif dibandingkan insulator lain,”katanya. Insulator ini terdiri dari dua tangki yang bercampur bersama. Awalnya basah, dan ketika menjadi kering akan mengembang enam kali lebih besar dari ukuran awalnya dan melembam ketika mengering, jadinya aman. Ketika Anda menyemprotkannya, sebaiknya Anda menggunakan pelindung, namun begitu mengering, bakal menjadi insulator yang efektif dan menjadi menyekat udara.”

Setelah mengikuti tiga tip tersebut di atas, Wilson telah memangkas 85% biaya energi di rumah berumur 70 tahun yang ditempatinya! Tentu saja, Anda tidak perlu seekstrim Wilson. Mengikuti salah satu tip ini saja sudah akan membantu Anda berhemat sekaligus juga mengurangi jejak karbon.

Jadi, tunggu apa lagi? Mulailah sekarang! Masih ingin membuang uang begitu saja saat Anda membaca pesan yang benar ini?

Diterjemahkan dari Bahasa Inggris, artikel asli di publikasikan tanggal di 24 Juni http://anashell.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-few-simple-tips-to-big-energy-savings.html

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Who will bring light and electricity to Africa?

Since 2009, demand for solar-powered lights in Africa has experienced an annual growth of 90%. Nearly 4 million lights have been sold, a number which at first glance seems impressive, and yet only represents 3% of the current market. 3%!

In 2009, scientists scrambled to come up with a low-cost, quality light to help modernize the developing world. In 2013, more than 40 companies have patents on products that meet the rigorous standards set forth by Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program that strives to provide previously disconnected areas with reliable access to electricity. For these 40+ companies, the biggest hurdle they currently have to overcome is a lack of working capital. They need more money to produce and export enough lights to meet soaring demand. But the options available for filling their capital requirements are less than ideal. Companies can either try to raise their debt level from an investor or bank, or lean on their equity reserves, which can easily result in bankruptcy. 

In 2011, the World Health Organization partnered with the OPEC Fund for International Development to help extend credit to companies struggling with working capital. The result was a wave of sales – hundreds of thousands of solar-powered lights were introduced to Africa. But as the market expands, demand inevitably rises. If a system of sound investing in manufacturers of innovative, quality products isn’t put in place, it will be nearly impossible for Africa’s economy to sustain itself. Instead, it will be victimized by “bubbles” and “bursts.”

As most people know, solar technology has its drawbacks. Panels have a limited capability and storage capacity due to their photovoltaic cells.  They’re bulky, too. They don’t work at night. Or in the rain. And worst of all – they’re expensive!

Why rely on solar-powered lights when cheap filament light bulbs, powered by a grid, have been a staple of the first world since Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla back in the 19^th Century?

NRGLab is actively seeking partners and investors to help grow enough working capital to manufacture the SH-box, a portable generator capable of providing power to every corner of Africa, or any other developing country in need of electricity. The zero-emission SH-box may prove to be the piece that stabilizes the African economy; producing electricity for as little as $0.03 per kWh allows for capital to be invested elsewhere, like in grid expansion and social welfare.

Visit nrglab.asia for updates on upcoming SH-box auctions, or to learn more about how partnering with NRGLab may just be the soundest investment and smartest decision you’ve ever made.

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塞浦路斯银行危机仅仅只是开始

面对着一团糟的银行系统，塞浦路斯政府周三提议采取系列行动，以确保拥有必要的资金以达到救助条件。你会问“必要”的资金是多少？哦，那只是58亿欧元！

该提议呼吁将国营企业职工养老金国有化，同时紧急进行债券拍卖，以便筹得58亿欧元。而就在前一天，该国议会才否决了一项类似的救助方案，该救助方案要求筹集100亿欧元。 款项同样将来自一项有争议的银行税，规定所有超过100,000欧元的存款都要缴纳2%的费用。塞浦路斯拥有自由和/或经济实惠的银行业的美好时光已经一去不复返了。总有一天，10万以上的存款征税将高达5%！

 同时，该国财政部长已抵达莫斯科，试图申请额外的经济援助。塞浦路斯银行正承受着希腊经济危机遗留问题所带来的痛苦。自从诸多俄国富有的社会名流在塞浦路斯开通了银行账号，显而易见的是，他们会对形势的发展一直保持着警惕，因为形势在持续恶化。 

为了帮助塞浦路斯抵御蜂拥而至蠢蠢欲动的国际金融大鳄，该国政府已宣布银行的所有分行关门停业至下周二。所有银行账户都被冻结。这意味着什么？这意味着民众无法使用自己的钱！这意味着他们不能付账单。他们将拖欠贷款，进而推倒欧洲经济崩溃的第一张多米诺牌。（世界其他各地将很快步其后尘）

为了方便使用现金和快件支付账单的民众，政府官员下令保持ATM机正常工作且储备充足现金。而对在塞浦路斯拥有银行账户的成千上万的国际企业，当地政府并没有给予同样多的帮助。资金冻结意味着他们不能在银行账户间相互转账，也就是说，他们无法做生意！当企业不能做生意的时候，他们的股票价格就会下跌。股票价格下跌又会导致轮番裁员。失业率的上升将给经济带来进一步的压力。何时才能停止这种恶性循环？在有人就此采取措施之前，有多少人将被迫离开自己的工作岗位，到ATM机前排队？

塞浦路斯政府希望在周二恢复塞国银行营业之前，与国际货币基金组织、欧洲央行和欧盟委员会就一项援助计划达成一致。如果塞国未能获得援助，“造成的损失将是非常巨大的，而（塞国）将面临崩溃的风险”，一名未透露身份的欧盟官员在接受《纽约时报》采访时说道。塞浦路斯甚至可能考虑完全脱离欧元区。该官员称此举将“加剧混乱”。 

在各国从一个经济危机陷入另一个经济危机的今天，或许是我们全面反思现有体制的时候了。相对投资黄金和白银来说，也许清洁能源才能代表可靠、相互依存的全球化经济的未来。因为能源需求将始终存在。如果市场引进一种强大的可再生能源，请想想看它的投资潜力，以及随之而来的文化潜力。

NRGLab公司推出的SH-box（多晶体发电机）可以从自然产生的各种热量中生产出低成本的可再生电力。想要了解更多吗？可登录nrglab.asia，了解如何在银行破产之前摆脱它的束缚。  

从英文版翻译而来。 原文于2013年3月25日发表在 

http://anashell.blogspot.sg/2013/03/the-bank-crisis-in-cyprus-is-only.html

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Save Your Money

         Today, there is a lot of talking about financial and economic crisis. A lot has been written about the reasons that forced International Monetary Fund, (IMF) and European Union (EU) to carry out a confiscatory reform in Cyprus. Some of the issues in this reform are critically important. One of the main questions is: who initiated such a reform?

         The European Union is one of the organizations functioning according to regulations defined by the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944. EU is one of the most powerful organizations in the world; however, it is not authorized to change the existing legislation. Especially when this legislation deals with the “sacred right” to private property. In spite of the fact that property rights are being breached left and right, there are always “legitimate” excuses to why these violations are exceptions to the rules. An example of such violation can be confiscation of funds that are not convenient to the “powerful of the world”. It is very likely that IMF was involved in the Cyprus story; otherwise, EU would not have made such scandalous moves.

         Let’s look further. Why did IMF allow such a gross violation of its own fundamental rules? The answer is simple: this kind of step makes sense only if all attempts to save the current bank system are futile. Assets of the current bank system are devalued, while liabilities are fully intact. In other words, it is impossible to return funds to clients, so the only question that matters is how to write off all the expenses. If this is true, Cyprus might as well be a “pilot project” – carried out to see what the reaction would be and how strong the resistance might appear.

         It is very possible such confiscatory reforms might be repeated in other countries as well. However, Anglo-Saxon countries, which are closer to the financial center of the world, are more open and free. New Zealand and Canada, for instance, are openly talking in their budget discussions about the possibility to bail out problematic banks at depositors’ expense.  So no one should have any illusions about safety of their bank deposits (now that the confiscatory reform becomes an integral part of the economic crisis).

         After the mortgage and the financial crises, we are witnessing the economic crisis. Many experts start to understand that this crisis will be absolutely global. Please note that the problems we had before had not disappeared. The mortgage and the financial crises still exist; they just became a part of the bigger economic crisis. Just like this economic crisis will very soon become a part of the world culture crisis.

         Who can influence the way this world culture crisis develops? The leaders of this culture can. We think that everyone needs to contribute in order to help those suffered from the world culture crisis. We have developed a program to visit countries of South-East Asia to talk to people face to face. We hope for productive collaboration and partnership. Unfortunately, we cannot influence the global crisis of the world culture, and our abilities to affect long-term development of the world culture are limited; however, we will strive to work productively. We will offer specific solutions, which will allow people to be a part of our community. We are together in this and we will win!

By Mika Newton: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mika_Newton/154511211382242

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The Bank Crisis in Cyprus is Only the Beginning

With their banking system in shambles, the country of Cyprus proposed actions Wednesday that would secure the funds necessary to qualify for a bailout. How much is ‘necessary’ you ask? Oh, only €5.8 billion!

The proposition called for the nationalization of state-operated employee pensions as well as an emergency bond auction to help raise the €5.8 billion. This comes only a day after their Parliament rejected a similar bailout package calling for €10 billion. Money would also come from a divisive bank tax, which would hit all deposits of up to €100,000 with a 2% fee. Gone are the days of free and/or affordable banking in Cyprus. Deposits above the 100k threshold would be taxed a whopping 5%!

Meanwhile, the country’s finance minister traveled to Moscow to plead his case for additional economic relief. The Cyprioti banks are suffering as a result of past entanglements in Greece’s economic catastrophe. Since many of Russia’s wealthiest socialites possess accounts in Cyprus, you know they’ll be keeping a watchful eye on the situation as it continues to deteriorate. 

In an effort to protect Cyprus from the international financial sharks that are starting to swarm the waters, the government has declared all bank branches closed until next Tuesday. All accounts have been frozen. What does this mean? It means people don’t have access to their money! It means they can’t pay their bills. They’ll default on loans, knocking over the first domino in the collapse of the European economy. (The rest of the world soon to follow)

Government officials have ordered ATM machines to remain operational and fully-stocked for those who still pay their bills via cash and courier mail. For the thousands of international corporations that already have accounts in Cyprus, this doesn’t help as much. The financial freeze means they can’t transfer money in between accounts, i.e. they can’t do business! And when corporations can’t do business, their stock price drops. When their stock price drops, rounds of employment cuts follow. When unemployment rises, further strain is put on the economy. When will it snap? How many people will be forced out of their jobs and into lines at the ATM before someone does something about it?

The Cyprioti government hopes to agree to terms with the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission on a relief plan by the re-opening of their banks on Tuesday. If the country fails to secure the bailout, “the damage would be enormous, and (they) would be at risk of collapse,” an undisclosed European official told the New York Times. Cyprus may even consider leaving the euro currency base altogether. According to that same official, the move would “spur chaos.”  

As countries hop from economic crisis to economic crisis, perhaps it’s time we rethought the system entirely. Instead of investing in gold and silver, perhaps clean-energy represents the future of a reliable, interdependent, globalized economy. Energy will always be in demand. If a capable, renewable source were introduced to the market, imagine the investment potential. Imagine the cultural potential.

The SH-box by NRGLab generates renewable, low-cost electricity from all-natural heat. Want to learn more? Visit nrglab.asia and read how you can break away from the bank, before breaking it.  

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