In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:00:42 -0500: Hi, [snip] >The company has opened two experimental stores in Texas and Colorado >as test laboratories for various alternate power sources. The testing, >conducted by The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge >National Laboratory, is ongoing. They have already determined that LED >lights have provided an excellent savings, but roof mounted solar >panels and wind turbines have proved less successful." [snip] If most stores are single story structures, then they could make huge savings on lighting by simply using translucent roofing so that most of their lighting needs were supplied by daylight.
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
