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Agriculture Future of America Provides Financial Support for Future Leaders in Agriculture
Agriculture Future of America (AFA) is offering a $2,600 academic/leader development scholarship support to future leaders in agriculture. Scholarships are available to high school seniors, planning to enroll in agriculture-related, four-year degree programs across the nation. Deadline for application is March 31, 2010.

In recent years, the situation of Chinese agricultural exports
In recent years, China's agricultural exports were a substantial growth trend in 2004, various types of agricultural machinery import and export volume of China reached 9.536 billion U.S. dollars, up 50.16 percent. Among them, the import of 6.192 billion U.S. dollars, up 46.8%; exports of 3.344 billion yuan, up 56.9%, trade deficit of 2.848 billion U.S. dollars. China's agricultural export share of total industrial output value of farm machinery is still very low, and lags far behind foreign countries, such as agricultural export powerhouse German agricultural exports accounted for 50% of total output, this shows that our great potential for agricultural exports . Agricultural industry as Machinery Industry A large industry, it was ...

Assessment of agricultural machinery manufacturers means maintenance release - Agricultural, Policy - Machinery Industry
[ HC Machinery Industry Network August 6, journalists from the Ministry of Agriculture Agricultural machinery Test and Evaluation terminal understand and drafted by the station's "ability to evaluate maintenance of agricultural machinery production enterprise approach" (the "Measures") issued.

Agricultural cooperatives will become the major consumer groups, bear in mind market - agricultural cooperatives - Machinery Industry
Since the central government to farmer Cooperation Introduction of more preferential policies to support community since Agricultural Machinery Development of cooperatives at all levels to incorporate the work of Agricultural Mechanization Management vision. Purchase of large agricultural subsidies each year to the agricultural machinery cooperative is also obvious tilt. As a result, agricultural cooperatives throughout the local agricultural department has been under the guidance of the rapid development.

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Conservation Of Energy By Home Domotics For Thermal Energy Conservation And Saving On Lighting

Domotics is not really new. During the 90's, I was CEO of a electronics high tech corporation and to impress our customers we decided to develop a PLC (programmable logic controller) based system that switched the lights and air conditioning actuators off and on depending on presence of people in each office. During the night the very same system acted as an advanced burglar alarm system that would either activate a bell, alert an alarm company, call phones or any combination thereof. Automatic and the alarm system just needed a key operated switch at the entrance of the office to deactivate and activate the burglar alarm; similar to any alarm installation. The question: "how much energy is conserved?" was only a secondary consideration at the time. That changed quickly after installation...

It worked great; but with one remark: When a person would be quietly behind her desk; sometimes the lights would be switched off. I still recall my colleagues waving at the sensor. In a way this was positive as it stimulated activity… But what was really a surprise was how much energy is conserved by this (in our view) uncomplicated system; we recorded savings of up to 35%. How can this be explained? In both a home and office environment, people often tend to not think about switching off the lights when they leave their room. I remember that before installing this system, the lights and air conditioning in the training room and meeting room were often switched on during most of the day. And, when I would come back to the office in the evening, cleaners or colleagues had at times forgotten turning off lights. Moreover, it was regularly too nice and warm in some rooms.

To my surprise, now, 20 years later, I did not see a system, comparable to the one as described above. Not many seem to worry about how much energy is conserved... What is out there today in the residential market is mainly gadget oriented; i.e. turning audio/video equipment on/off via the Internet or closing and opening curtains and similar actions. For office applications, costly building automation systems do exist. But, these systems do not feature presence . What could be the reasons for that?

First of all it could be the sensors; similar to what we experienced 20 years in the past. However, the expertise that allows 100% detection is available these days. Think of automotive collision detection sensors.

Secondly, it could be the control software, which is rather complex if done correctly. In essence, you want the same level of automation as in the commercial market, but for a cost measured in 100's of $'s to 1000's of $'s for advanced wireless systems or those systems with many functions and many input/outputs. But certainly not in 10,000's of $'s.

Wired or wireless

Wired is much more economical, but needs more installation labor. Especially in existing buildings, the cost difference may be compensated by the much lower installation.

As time passes by, wireless systems will likely become more economical as labor cost tends to rise, while Home Automation Systems will become cheaper as they are a mainstream product.

As contractors and architects do not yet have Home Automation Systems on their mind as a mainstream application for the home market, it will take considerable time and a lot of missionary marketing work by vendors. The bigger the low cost Home Automation Systems vendors are, the faster it would become reality. An alternative is that systems are being sold via Internet High Technology Marketing. This implies that massive article marketing, webinars and email marketing campaigns are used to realize market recognition.

During the GE ECOmagination Challenge (a technology competition) that runs until March 15, 2011), over 500 technologists, engineers, inventers and students contend for superior solutions in energy conservation. It is worth your while to have a peek in case energy conservation in the home energy efficiency marketplace has your interest. Moreover, there are interesting green energy solutions at the General Electric ECOmagination Challenge(contest).

James Post is a technologist from the Netherlands, residing in Grenada. He is a high scoring contender in the ECOmagination Challenge and requests your support by signing up, asking questions & voting: http://tinyurl.com/ECC2011 Check his top rated entries: Solar A/C & Residential Wind Energy. Check his site: http://internetmarketing-mentor.com/high-technology-marketing.html


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