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- Kansas Kisses up to King Koal
- Coal may be winning the political battle that began last fall when the Kansas E.P.A. turned down a permit request to build two more coal-fired electricity generating plants there. Now the Kansas legislature appears to be ready to pass legislation that pleases coal and pays lip-service to the environment....
- Tags: Kansas, Coal, Carbon Dioxide, Coal Plant, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Coal's in our future. So what IS wrong with Kansas?
- Coal's in our future. So what IS wrong with Kansas?Diagrams?Gee the picture looks nice except for the great hole in it where they want to store the carbon.There is no such thing as clean coal - the carbon has to go somewhere and geological formations are the equivalent of...
- Tags: coal
- Discussion threads 2007-11-11
- Coal's in our future. So what IS wrong with Kansas?
- FutureGen's diagram of it's near-zero emission coal plant. You may think I really don't like coal. Bunch of petrified plants, after all. But the questions about coal are, after all, largely technological. It's unlike the debate over peak oil, and what supply...
- Tags: Kansas, Coal, Carbon Dioxide, Plant, FutureGen, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
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- Video: Does Green IT matter for business?
- Video: Does Green IT matter for business?My tip? Follow the moneyIMHO, being "green" has become little more than a shakedown that industry is happy to play along with. After all, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all could get laws passed that mandated that our customers purchase more...
- Tags: Does Green IT, carbon dioxide, video
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Data center energy use
- Data center energy useHmmmm....1. It's still a positive contribution, even if it is a small one. 2. And I think real enterprises are seriously eying desktops a real money sinks when it comes to power.3. The same argument could be applied to oil. We shouldn't...
- Tags: Data centers, Operating systems, Servers, hardware, Data Center Energy, Sun Microsystems Inc., data center, Process Protection
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!Laughing hereI guess it's alright when envirofascists want to regulate our icebox because at least they're staying out of our bedrooms.BTW, my garden resents you preaching that we should remove 60 pounds of food from its photosynthetic leaves.Somebody has to speak for the plants...
- Tags: fridge, Freon
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!
- I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...
- Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.Yep, going green allrightIt's called moss growing over all the abandoned homes and industry as Colorado slips into economic depression.The question now becomes how much misery will Americans allow greens to foist upon us until we've finally had...
- Tags: serious greening, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Carbon Control Software Home Edition (exe)
- Every year inactive computers make a contribution to climate change in the form of millions of tones of CO2. Play your part in preventing global warming by using Carbon Control Software Home Edition. It works by switching off your computer when its not being used and can help reduce your...
- Tags: Computer, Carbon Control Software, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- Recently I blogged about what's happened in Colorado since the voters passed a renewable energy mandate back in 2004. Today comes word that a major utility company is shuttering two coal-burning plants in Colorado and turning to more use of solar for electricity generation. State regulators...
- Tags: Utility Company, Colorado, Xcel, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- There's one fossil fuel that is becoming more abundant, thanks to technology
- It's long been a popular fuel for industrial use, and even got some play in the transportation market. Now natural gas will be even more popular in America because IT'S ACTUALLY BECOMING MORE PLENTIFUL. U.S. oil production has been dropping annually since 1970. Natural gas production is...
- Tags: Petroleum, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Natural Gas Production, Renewables, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray
- Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?
- Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?All about the dataI can't agree more with Ash. The data is a pivotal piece of an SOA (most IT approaches, really), and is often under-served by SOA initiatives and projects. Data is diverse, duplicated, dispersed, dirty, and...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, elixir, service-Oriented
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Tags: Innovation, Conference, Office 2.0, Mashup, Unconference Session, Ross, Susan Scrupski, Zoli Erdos, Vinnie Mirchandani, Vinnie, David Tebbutt, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- 2008 MacBook Pro or clever fake?
- 2008 MacBook Pro or clever fake?Quick Note...To note, the "ad" is a concept created by this user on DeviantArt...http://halfwayglad.deviantart.com/art/MacBook-Pro-2008-Concept-94900734Don't know, but we will find out on 9/16I would say though, it does look sleek and sexy.RE: 2008 MacBook Pro or clever fake?To reply to myself, I love how you guys...
- Tags: Notebooks, clever fake, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture it
- The folks at the Idaho National Laboratory say they've come up with a way to make solar energy work round the clock. The sporadic nature of solar energy and the need thus to store day-time solar for night-time use has long been one of the biggest bugaboos cited by...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- Some serious research into gasoline-free transport
- Some serious research into gasoline-free transportIt's a motor, a battery, and an engine."Not a surprise, the auto industry is crap at explaining these vehicles to potential buyers."It's a motor, engine, and a battery. The motor can power the wheels. It gets great mileage.That's about as much explaining as you need....
- Tags: Engineering, hydrogen, battery, motor, gasoline
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Can Moore's Law last another 40 years?
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...
- Tags: Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Moore's Law to last 40 more years?
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...
- Tags: Performance, CMOS, Intel Corp., Moore, Nanotechnology, Memory, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Intel, carbon nanotubes, Moore's Law
- Videos 2008-08-21
- 2008 BMW M6 Coupe
- Photo gallery:2008 BMW M6As in other current M models from BMW, the 2008 BMW M6 is afflicted with a dual personality. It masquerades as a big luxury coupe around town, but when the roads open up, the M6 can transform into a superhero. At a push of the M button...
- Tags: BMW M6, BMW AG, Crissy Field
- Product reviews 2008-08-19
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