Energy box cuts room-heating carbon bill in half

7 Mar 2008 | 20:10 GMT

By Sylvie Barak

A SYSTEM for monitoring heating and hot water use in any given location can cut the use of distillate oil or gas by more than half, its inventors claim.

Israeli outfit Phoebus Energy, produces a box together with a
sophisticated set of computer algorithms and adaptive software, to evaluate parameters such as temperature, humidity, current oil price, electricity prices, user demand and regulate enegry sources correspondingly.

"Phoebus' system takes all the factors it is programmed to check and evaluates them 24/7, providing up to the minute adjustments to the way energy is used," Yoav Ben-Yaacov, head of Phoebus' energy team, told israel21c.

"More than three kilograms of pollutants are generated for each kilogram of fossil fuel burned. The Phoebus system reduces this by up to 90 per cent," he adds.

The system will get its first chance to prove itself when it is deployed at the end of March in a small farming collective called Kibbutz Tzora, near Jerusalem. µ

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