Code Green
Reduce Covid, Produce Profits. The host for this episode is Howard Wiig. The guests for this episode are Anthony Amendola and Andrew Miller. Energy Advisors’ technology draws Covid into an enclosure and destroys them The same device is also a light fixture, providing two functions in one fixture. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet […]
Pono in Pandemic Times (Code Green)
Do It Yourself is Fun! The host for this episode is Howard Wiig. The guest for this episode is Chelsea Harder. Pono Homes sends clients a kit of super-efficient devices then remotely walks the client through their purpose and correct installation. The result is dramatically lowered electricity bills in a safer, more comfortable home. ThinkTech […]
21st Century Efficiency: Repurposed Buildings (Code Green)
Existing Buildings are Energy Treasures. The host for this episode is Howard Wiig. The guest for this episode is Melanie B.Y. Islam, LEED, AIA. Energy efficiency plus renewables plus storage isn’t enough. Repurposing existing buildings reuses the energy embodied in the concrete, steel and glass and creates high-skill jobs. Featured will be a rum distillery, […]
A Tiny Solution to a BIG Housing Problem (Code Green)
Tiny homes for low-income folks and homeless. The host for this episode is Howard Wiig. The guests for this episode are Connie Mitchell and James Pakele. The average price of a single family home is $750,000 and many workers make $15 an hour and less. The resulting housing crisis indirectly pulls all Hawaii residents down. […]
How about a 75% drop in kW demand? (Code Green)
Ultra-efficiency. The host for this episode is Howard Wiig. The guest for this episode is Nick Dizon. Description of a solar-assisted large HVAC system atop the Matson Building that drops kW demand by 75%. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Hawaii time most weekdays, then we stream our […]
The germicidal properties of Ultraviolet Light (Code Green)
A forthcoming webinar by Dr. William Bahnfleth. The host for this episode is Jay Fidell. The guest for this episode is Howard Wiig. Howard Wiig will talk about a 90-minute webinar to be presented for DBEDT by Dr. William Bahnfleth, author or co-author 170 technical articles and author of 14 books or chapters. Dr. Bahnfleth […]
Hawaii leads the nation in 100% clean electricity (Code Green)
Like what you see? Please give generously. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Customer Energy Resources. HECO’s brand new Customer Services Division helps clients to become energy suppliers as well as consumers via an extremely sophisticated “Modernized Grid”. The host for this episode is Ethan Allen. The guests for this episode are Kaiulani Shinsato and Yoh Kawanami. ThinkTech Hawaii streams […]
A Green Workplace Boosts the ROI (Code Green)
Like what you see? Please give generously. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Health, wellness, productivity. What is the Modern Workplace for the Modern Workforce? The Green Workplace involves lower energy and resource use and higher workforce energy. The best Green Building practices produce a healthy, uplifting engaging, and productive workplace attracts valuable talents who contribute to a higher ROI. […]
Could Hawaii be the new 3D? (Code Green)
Like what you see? Please give generously. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com 3D printing and manufacturing. Hawaii is continually searching for alternatives to tourism as economic drivers. Might 3D printing and manufacturing be an answer? Economist Dr. Steenhuis has been researching this possibility for years and is formulating a promising proposal. The host for this episode is Martin Despang. […]
Photovoltaic Energy Storage: Porridge or Courage? (Code Green)
Like what you see? Please give generously. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Photovoltaics, storage, peak reduction, shortage. Hawaii is throwing away enormous amounts of electrical energy every day because we can’t utilize all the photovoltaic (PV) generated energy. The solution is storage batteries to absorb energy by day and utilize at night to reduce peak demand. However, Hawaii is […]