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It may seem like it's too early to think about the holidays, but if you have hot products for the gift giving season you have to start now!
Last week, Kodak was at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York for Holiday Spectacular. It's where the media go to find out what to showcase in their articles and on their web pages in just a few short months.
So what can you look for this year for your holiday gift list?
On her recent visit to the Eastman Business Park, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) touted the Park as an efficient tri-generation facility.
Many people have probably heard of co-generation, but just what is tri-generation?
In the power industry, co-generation is the production of steam and electricity from a single fuel source. Many industries use co-generation plants to provide a portion of their electric needs in addition to their heating needs. However, during the summer cooling season, co-generation plants are not fully utilized and become less efficient.
Tri-generation is the combined production of electricity, heating and cooling from a single fuel source. Interconnecting refrigeration with a co-generation plant allows utilization of seasonal excess heat for the production of cooling. This is suitable mainly from the point of view of the operation of co-generation units, because it allows the use of heat even in summer, outside the heating season, and thus to extend the annual running of the units. The year-round capacity utilization of tri-generation makes the overall system very efficient and very competitive.
Eastman Business Park is able to offer a full suite of utilities using the power of tri-generation, and generates 100% of its electrical needs. In addition to tri-generation of its refrigeration needs for process and comfort cooling, the Eastman Business Park also produces compressed air, nitrogren, process water and high purity water. Energy balance is key in providing all these tri-generation services.
Tri-generation allows the Eastman Business Park to be extremely energy efficient which is a win for all of us!
Kodak OLED technology will be featured on Green Magazine TV Thursday, June 25 at 8:30 am on the Time Warner Cable Channel 36, Dish Network Channel 182, and DIRECTV Channel 278.
The show is about companies that are leading the way to a more sustainable future. Kodak's continued innovations in OLED technology will make the world a better place, with applications in both flat panel display and solid-state lighting. Kodak's compelling OLED "Green" impact will ultimately result in panels having fewer sub-components for ease of recycling, absence of heavy metals requiring special handling (such as mercury), and lower energy consumption.
We are proud to know that all OLED products will use Kodak's invention of OLED technology. Kodak's leadership role in OLED technology represents what Kodak is all about ... "Making the World a Better Place" for many generations to come.
Here is the clip about Kodak OLED technology...
RANDOM TRIVIA: The host of Green Magazine TV, Tristan Rogers, has connections to Rochester, NY (headquarters of Kodak). He has played Robert Scorpio on the soap opera General Hospital for many years. General Hospital is set in a city that looks suspiciously like Rochester, NY - it even has the same area code! When some of the show's best-loved characters, Luke and Laura, returned in the 90s, they shot the outdoor scenes right here in Rochester. A couple of scenes stand out for fans of GH - Luke and Laura jumping from a helicopter over a waterfall (shot over our city's High Falls) and driving a pink Cadillac down Main Street.
