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- Will diatoms lead to faster computer chips?
- Diatoms are unicellular algae and one of the most common types of phytoplankton. One of their main characteristics is they encase themselves in shells made of silica. According to a team of U.S. researchers who successfully decoded the genome of a particular diatom named Thalassiosira pseudonana, these very small algae...
- Tags: Computer Chip, Carbon Dioxide, Shell, University Of Washington, Gene, Ocean, Carbon, Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Productivity, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Photos: Fujitsu unveils king-size fuel cell
- Electronics giant inaugurates 200-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell that will provide electricity as well as heat to buildings on its Sunnyvale campus.A proton exchange membrane PEM hydrogen fuel cell, king-size. Fujitsu inaugurated this fuel cell at its Sunnyvale, Calif., campus on Friday. The fuel cell sits in the parking lot...
- Tags: Fuel cells, photograph, fuel cell, hydrogen, Fujitsu Ltd., membrane, Amdahl, Fujitsu LifeBook, steam, chair, electron, carbon dioxide, carbon, Sunnyvale, natural gas, electronics company, data center, electronics, Japan, laptop computer
- Image galleries 2007-08-17
- Trade you some CO2 for a little O2
- I wouldn't hold my breath on anything getting done about the atmosphere and climate change in the current configuration of power in Washington D.C. But there are some rumblings that may hint about the next phase of American politics.Tuesday, July 24, 230pm Eastern Time, there's a subcommittee hearing in...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on french fry grease
- Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on french fry greaseReduce CO2 emmissions?Perhaps I am mistaken or just ignorant of the science, but don't biodiesel vehicles release just as much CO2 as regular diesels? The article makes it sound as if alternative fuels are one of the answers to global warming,...
- Tags: Bio-fuel, biodiesel, carbon dioxide, carbon, WVO, oil
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
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- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers
- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers...When people understand that you cannot monetize everything then we will start to see real progress. Until then... nothing more than lip service. ]:)
- Tags: carbon
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Cautionary tale: carbon trading and carping loggers
- In New Zealand an official carbon-trading scheme is not running smoothly. It's perhaps a cautonary tale for other countries or regions looking at carbon-trading as a way to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. New Zealand's a signator to the Kyoto Protocol which led that nationto try carbon-trading...
- Tags: Emission, Greenhouse Gas, New Zealand, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Is it RIP for my aged Apple laptop?
- OK. I may just have found a very relevant reason to go out and buy a new computer: I think I have officially killed my four-year-old Apple notebook. And, yes, I will lose data if I can't recover the hard drive. And, yes, I am traveling as this discovery is...
- Tags: Thin Client, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IGEL, Thin Clients, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic
- The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, 'Pinta the robot sailing boat,' has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to sail for three months at a maximum speed of...
- Tags: Pinta, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em off
- In the northern lattitudes the boreal forests of North America are losing their evergreens. Scientists say the mountain pine beetle is thriving due to the warmer winters. In turn beetles are killing large numbers of trees in Canadian forests. Previous beetle attacks have occurred in the Canadian...
- Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Species, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- HRH Prince Penguin
- Did anyone else happen to notice that Prince Charles is a closet Penguin? On our UK-based sister site, ZDNet.CO.UK our British colleague Andrew Donoghue quoted His Majesty as follows: "Many of the case studies we received highlight the...
- Tags: Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- News to know: Office 2007 SP1; Microsoft security; KVM vs. Xen; AMD
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16 EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Office 2007, Xen, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- TerraPass gets more granular with its carbon-crunching calculator
- Popular carbon offset Web site TerraPass has updated the online calculator you can use to keep track of your carbon footprint. The update now includes options for tracking the differences between many different hybrid fuels from biodiesel to flex fuel ethanol to compressed natural gas. So, if you select some...
- Tags: TerraPass, Web Site Development, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- NASA's lunar breathing system
- When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...
- Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Prince backs 'green' thin clients
- Prince backs 'green' thin clientsPrincely savingsPrince Charles is on the right track. There are many benefits in addition to energy savings that will accrue to the company that moves from PCs to thin clients. Symbio Technologies offers a stateless zero thin client that uses just 4 watts of energy. This...
- Tags: Thin clients, Symbio Technologies, Prince Charles, HRH, thin client, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- UAVs will study Californian smog
- The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles AUAVs to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...
- Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...Here's a better ideaBurn the freaking methanol in an internal combustion engine. Catalyst requirement gone.Sheesh.Just another example that global warming really isn't about global warming. Making and burning methanol is carbon-neutral, but note how the idea of simply manufacturing methanol to...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, methanol, global warming, internal combustion engine, combustion engine
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...
- "Since 1965, methanol has been the only racing fuel used by the Indianapolis 500. Methanol also is an ideal hydrogen carrier fuel for fuel cell technology applications." That's a direct quote from the Methanol Institute website. Now how'd you like to have that under the hood of your...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Methanol, Catalyst, Methanoliacs, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Sun creates its own solar system of eco partners
- Going back to my roots in writing about and for IT resellers, VARs and systems integrators with today's entry. That's because Sun Microsystems became one of the first high-tech companies a few weeks back to include its business partners in its ability have a green tech dialogue with its customers....
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Retail, Virtualization, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...
- Tags: Databases, N-Tier, tier, Wintel Scalability, Rube Goldberg, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
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