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Hydrogen-powered cars with zero-carbon-emission?

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have a bright idea -- at least at first sight. They want to create a sustainable transportation system by using hydrogen-powered cars. They would like to create an infrastructure where people could use a liquid fuel for driving while the carbon emission in...

Tags: Georgia Institute Of Technology, Georgia Tech, Hydrogen, Carbon, Carbon Emission, Transportation, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Carbon Emissions Calculator (zip)

Carbon Emissions Calculator to help you reduce you carbon emissions. Simply enter the appliance wattage and how long it is used each day. The program will then tell you your carbon emissions by day, quarter and year. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Carbon Emission

Software downloads 2007-12-05

What'll it cost to save the planet? Who's spinning the numbers?

"Business Week" is not known for its anti-business politics, so it's interesting to see where they go with a piece just published on the costs of controlling carbon emissions. Opponents of that dangerous plot of mandating carbon emission reductions would have us believe that the American economy, and by...

Tags: U.S., Standards, Global Warming, Carbon Emission, Mortgages, Government, Quality, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Biofuel or bunk?

Not so fast with biofuels. That's the warning from two British researchers. They say a conversion from fossil fuels to currently available biofuels will make carbon emissions go UP. If you've been watching the global warming debate, UP is the wrong direction unless you want lots of...

Tags: Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-19

Additional Resources

The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise

That's the bottom line out of the G8 Summit in Japan where the world's eight biggest economies are meeting. They have pledged to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By then all the current leaders and this humble scrivener will be long gone. Our children will probably...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Agreement, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-08

UPDATED: Learning how to use "green" and Microsoft in the same sentence

NOTE: I've updated this post to include another link with tips on other Microsoft technologies that can contribute to your company's green credentials as well as the link for the Imagine Cup winners. It being the week of Microsoft's annual big-deal partner conference and all, I thought...

Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-07

One prediction about climate change challenges another

One prediction about climate change challenges anotherWhen myths collideThere never was a hole. It was a thinning of the ozone layer.Any first year chem student could tell you it's impossible for ozone to disappear in the presence of sunlight, since ozone is created by the bombardment of short UV with...

Tags: global warming, ozone, oxygen

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

What's next for the MacBook Air?

Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...

Tags: Processor, Disk, MBA, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Solid State Disk, Intel Corp., MLC, Engineering, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

New Web calculators from APC help you get a grip on the green impact of certain design and technology choices

What tradeoffs do you have to make to achieve certain energy efficiency goals in your data center? How will adding that extra rack, for example, skew your electricity usage? Power management company APC aka the big UPS vendor figures that anyone who can help tell you that...

Tags: Web, Energy Efficiency, American Power Conversion Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-02

IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?

IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?IBM Social Responsibility??? HAHAHAIBM not only demurred on increasing salaries to keep up with inflation, but went so far as to cut pay 15% for many under the guise that overtime will make up...

Tags: Business ethics, Outsourcing, IBM Corp., IBM consulting service, IBM consulting, ethics, consulting

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?

IBM has come out and said it: The way a company treats environmental responsibility and green tech issues reflects on its corporate ethics. There, I've said it, too. The company's consulting division has even come out this week with the IBM Corporate Social Responsibility Benchmarking Service...

Tags: Consulting Service, Green Technology, Ethics, IBM Corp., IBM Consulting Service, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Are more companies refusing to pay more for green IT?

There used to be a perception, not so many months ago, that your company would have to spend more to green-ify its IT infrastructure. But the flagging economy is apparently dashing any hopes that high-tech vendors might secretly have harbored that they could get customers to spend more dollars for...

Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Green IT, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-30

'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix

'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffixDangerous ground[i]However, Twomey told Agence France-Press that the organization will still try to block or reject any domain name that it deems inappropriate for security or [b]moral[/b] reasons.[/i]And just what morality standards will they be using?Personally, It wouldn't bother me if all porn...

Tags: INTERNET, SECURITY, ICANN, domain suffix, IPCC

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

What do the British really believe about global warming?

What do the British really believe about global warming?lolu got ot be kidding meRE: What do the British really believe about global warming?You have got to be kidding! I can not remember when it really snowed properly in the UK, we are seeing greater instances or extreme weather such...

Tags: Now Let, global warming, climate change, British Public

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Why Cisco's new low-carbon diet isn't just a fad (updated)

Why Cisco's new low-carbon diet isn't just a fad updatedCisco energy tax continuesOne obvious omission in Cisco multi-year plan is any definitive plan that will attack the Cisco energy tax that is impacting their customers big time. And I'm not talking about a government level 5 or 10% VAT, but...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., energy tax

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talks Dennis Howlett: Oracle's Q4 results analysis RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL Bill Gates: Hits and misses [Video] More...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Mary Jo Foley, Bill Gates, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, 3G, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Gateway FX7026

Continuing in their line of desktop computers with quad-core processors, the Gateway FX7026 offers a loaded computer that can go head-to-head with other high end gaming and media heavy machines. The $1,099 price tag is more than fair for the amount of high performance features and comparable to a similar...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer electronics, Gateway FX7026, Gateway Inc.

Product reviews 2008-06-25

Global warming is a security issue say American spies

Global warming is a security issue say American spiesDead on[i]If global warming is real and it's consequences are as serious as some say which I doubt it will case major instability across the globe[/i]I think we've seen it repeated many times in history: Everyone's content and willing to lend a...

Tags: security, global warming

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

New reports try to demystify the "low carbon IT" equation

As we all know, information technology is both a culprit and a hero when it comes to carbon emissions. Various research companies estimate that information and communications technologies contribute about 2 percent of the global carbon footprint, and the larger IT companies have been falling all over each other to...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Footprint, Carbon, Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-25