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Hi Allison,
Good cause but you chose the wrong name! We are returning every single electron we borrow from the electricity supplier. Otherwise our lab would be negatively charged and our hair stand up all the time! Just that pumping the electrons around takes an awful lot of chemical, nuclear, solar or other energy which is then converted to useless heat at our end and we probably have to pump more electrons around to transport this heat to somwhere outside the building (switch on the air conditioning).

Best wishes

Andreas

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Every day, millions and millions of electrons are wasted in laboratories -
from centrifuges kept at 4 degrees 'just in case' and water baths
permanently set to 37 degrees, to microscopes that are left on overnight
because the Hg bulb needed to be left on for 30 minutes, laboratories waste
a lot of energy. Our non-profit, My Green Lab, is working to reduce energy
use in labs, and put those energy savings back into the pockets of
researchers in the form of energy rebates.  But before we can develop
financial incentives, we need to know more information about the type of
equipment you use in your lab.

Please help us by taking this 15-minute survey.  Anyone who works in a lab
is qualified to participate, and all participants will be entered to win a
MacBook Air.  A link to the survey is here:  www.surveymonkey.com/s/CEEL 
Feel free to share this link with your friends and colleagues.

For more information about our non-profit, or about how you can save energy
in your lab, please visit our website:  www.mygreenlab.org

Feel free to contact me with any feedback or questions at [log in to unmask]

Thank you!!

Thank you for helping us save the electron!