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Making Smart Thermostats More Efficient
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-Since HVAC systems account for nearly

Heating Buildings Using Wastewater
MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA-A Canadian utility plans to

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its buildings starting this year. The incoming material
from toilets, showers, sinks and washing machines
is warm enough that the utility wants to use a heat
recovery system. The new system could reduce the
facility's net greenhouse gas emissions by about 22%.
Source: CBC

half of a building's energy use, smart buildings use
smart thermostats. But acquiring data in smart buildings is a time-consuming process. MIT researchers
have designed a new smart thermostat that uses dataefficient algorithms that can learn optimal temperature thresholds within a week. The smart thermostat
quickly learns to optimize building microclimates
for both energy consumption and user preference.
Source: MIT

Study Analyzes How Sweat, Bleach
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cleaners, which many gym facilities use to sanitize equipment, to form new airborne chemicals with unknown
impacts to IAQ. Source: University of Colorado Boulder

setts will attempt to deploy geothermal heating across
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to reduce fossil fuel use while providing an economic
transition for gas utilities and their workers. One of the
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its goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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