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Entries Tagged ‘South’

Snow Driving Down South

Feb.01, 2010 in Environment, Science

Growing up in the South, you don’t have a lot of opportunities to test out your winter gittin’ around skills.  And with a big snowstorm about to him my hometown area, here are a few hard learned lessons about moving around in the white stuff. Cowboy boots and ice don’t mix. Always wipe the snow [...]

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Ole Miss and SmartSynch Report Electricity Usage with…Twitter

Sep.25, 2009 in Education, Efficiency, Energy, Environment, smartgrid

The University of Mississippi is using data from SmartSynch’s smart meters and passing it to dashboards for campus operations personnel to monitor, analyze and act via RSS and social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook.  As a part of the university’s Red, Blue and Green initiative, students and faculty can register with the school’s Green [...]

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