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- Google's turf expands 42.2 acres
- Google's turf expands 42.2 acresballmer is turning greengreen as in envy not as an outer space alien.RE: Google's turf expands 42.2 acresHooray for Google taking up even more land and still being absolutely useless. Like all things Google, this expansion will last a year then be forgotten about.i doubt...
- Tags: Capital structures, Google Inc., acre, turf
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- How much solar to run the whole U.S.?
- How much solar to run the whole U.S.?600 sq mi seems very lowHope i'm wrong....Hmmm, not bad, only 600 square miles. Now halve that and put the collectors in orbit and you have a real solution. Either way though, we need to stop screwing around as a nation and get...
- Tags: acre, square mile
- Discussion threads 2008-04-06
- Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?
- Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Now that is totally cool!Thanks for the info on this. Whooda thunk? ]:)RE: Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Is this anything new? we have known about cellulose based ethanol and its potential for long time. The problem...
- Tags: grass, corn, acre, gallon, Corn Grain
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Boxed in: America's new energy trap
- Boxed in: America's new energy trapThe only reason corn is so volatileIs because we are still paying people to not grow corn, soybeans, etc.If we were to stop doing that, and make people grow things and sell them at market prices...... no more problems with shortages of anything, for whatever...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, corn, Boxed, new energy
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and green
- Solar Trees. Solar Groves. The value of shade in the future economy. Bio-mimicry. My little brain was racing to absorb all the solar heat coming through the phone. I spent nearly an hour talking with Robert Noble. Trained as an architect, he's...
- Tags: Acre, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Tree, Plug-in, Robert Noble, Envision, NREL, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- You've been slimed (or, algae as a biofuel source)
- Me and algae, we go way back. (So far back, in fact, that I don't remember what the proper grammar should be for the previous sentence.) I can recall ponds smothered in algae during a couple of 8th grade field trips focused on gathering data for my...
- Tags: El Paso Corp., Acre, Oil, Texas, Carbon Dioxide, Bonus, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Start-up drills for oil in algae
- Start-up drills for oil in algaeThis is really an old ideaStarted with research by the Dept. of Energy back the late 70's and 80's with oil producing algae. One study at UNH concluded we could grow our entire oil transportation needs by taking over 15,000 square miles (about 10%)...
- Tags: desert, oil, acre, farmer
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
- Sandia pushes limits of solar technology
- Sandia pushes limits of solar technologyStirling energy systems link is wrongThis link is incorrecthttp://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stirling.com%2F&siteId=22&oId=2100-9584-5466122&ontId=9584&lop=nl.exFabulousThis technology is outstanding - I love hearing about innovations in clean power.Preposterous !Wait till George W Bush hears about this devious effort to undermine the viability of the oil industry. When he figures out that...
- Tags: acre, Hoover Dam, square mile, nuclear energy
- Discussion threads 2004-11-24
- Staying One Step Ahead
- In Fall 2003, Southern California was ravaged by wildfires. Pushed by the Santa Ana winds, the fire, which came to be known as the Simi Valley fire, would eventually burn more than 100,000 acres in Ventura County and parts of northwestern Los Angeles County. Within those acres lay Countrywide Financial's...
- Tags: Acre, Business Continuity, It Services
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- Terremark on target with green data center buildout near nation's Capitol
- This represents my final post this month about green data center buildouts that have been pitched to me in the past several weeks. I actually first wrote last fall about the facility in question, Terremark Worldwide's new NAP of the Capitol Region in Culpepper, Va. The new information in this...
- Tags: Data Center, Terremark Worldwide, Reserve, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Brown rice, white rice, now GREEN rice
- A major rice grower in California is looking to sell green rice. "Green" as in solar-powered. Of course, like all crops, rice needs sun to grow and ripen. Now Far West Rice, Inc. of Cypress, California, is going to harvest, mill, store, move and bag rice using...
- Tags: California, Plant, PPM, Government, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Self Sufficient Living (exe)
- Self Sufficient Living - a free toolbar to find State Land Sales and Auctions, to be upgraded with Low Cost private sales over the next year. The focus is on land between $65 to $1000 an acre. Find cheap land for your remote retreat dream. This version is the first...
- Tags: Land, Self Sufficient Living, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- Not just hot air: Some details on Dell's server thermal design
- It takes a whole lot more than just a new multi-core microprocessor or even whiz-bang virtualization technology to create a greener server. A few weeks back, I wondered out loud exactly why Dell's latest PowerEdge M-Series blades were getting so much notice as a green option -- after having several...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, PowerEdge R300, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Real Estate Company Appraises Presentation Virtualization, Projects Hardware Costs Recoupment in 24 Months
- The Woodlands Development Company is the developer of The Woodlands: a 28,000-acre master-planned community located in Montgomery County and Harris County, Texas. The challenge would be whether Windows Server 2008 Presentation Virtualization and the Hyper-V features could provide a suitable platform for remote deployment of the Company's centralized applications. The...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Real Estate, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-06
- A green roundhouse
- According to Forbes, two architects are building a roundhouse to make it more energy-efficient. The architects claim that their 'new methodology dramatically improves all aspects of the design and construction of buildings.' Their first realization 'will be a 13,000-square-foot residence set on a 3.25-acre lot in the canyons above Beverly...
- Tags: House, Forbes, Wall, Construction, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Linksys debuts two slick-looking, affordable Wi-Fi routers at CES
- Linksys debuts two slick-looking, affordable Wi-Fi routers at CESdefine "affordable"I wouldn't mind spending $100+ for a unit that runs reliably for years. Buying a $30 unit that needs to be rebooted constantly, with several bios upgrades, and then dies after 2-3 months is no bargain and is certainly not...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, Home networking, NETWORKING, router, affordable Wi-Fi router, slick-looking, Linksys Inc., Wi-Fi router, Consumer Electronics Show, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- For 2008 expect more Linux applications
- For 2008 expect more Linux applicationsLinux Desktop is pretty amazing ...It has shown an ability to thrive with a hardly measurable marketshare. It has easily the most highly energized fan base and the most highly motivated detractors of any computing technology in existence bar none. Each year it...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux desktop, Linux, Linux Applications, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Wikinomics and mass collaboration
- I'm reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (which is co-authored by Don Tapscott, the man who coined the term "paradigm shift," an act for which I have actually heard him apologize) before I go to sleep each night, which means I don't remember very much of it. (I bet...
- Tags: Shaft, Collaboration, Goldcorp, Mutual Funds, Groupware, Retirement Plans, Human Resources, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-22
- Come 2010, will there be enough renewable energy to switch on your lights?
- Here's some irony for you. There's a new report out of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL that suggests demand for renewable energy will outpace supply by the year 2010. (The report carries the scintillating title of "A Preliminary Examination of the Supply and Demand Balance for Renewable Energy.") ...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, MWh, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- BioFuels: now what?
- Biofuels Panel, GoingGreen, Davis, CA: Robert Walsh, President LS9 Jonathan Wolfson, President & CEO, Solazyme John Melo, CEO, Amyris Biotechnologies Steven Perricone, CEO & Co-Founder, BioFuelBox Moderator: where are we in the biofuels revolution? RW: We are 3-5 years from going...
- Tags: U.S., JW, JM, Carbon Footprint, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
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