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H2O + CO2 = CH4, thanks to Archaeans

Researchers at Penn State have found a friendly microbe that'll take our excess CO2, add some water, a charge of electricity, and return us methane. The original purpose of the portable electrolysis cell research: producing H2. But if you get lemons, make.... It's long been...

Tags: Electricity, Carbon Dioxide, Archaea, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

What is the smart grid?

At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Jesse Berst, managing director of Global Smart Energy, breaks the smart grid down into three components: smart devices, two-way communication, and advanced control systems. He explains what each component adds but says it's not just about the components--it's also the value...

Tags: Component, Grid, green, energy, smart grid, electricity, utility, alternative energy

Videos 2009-03-25

The future of... Mobile device chargers

No power? No problem. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes a look at kinetic energy technology that charges mobile phones and devices without ever needing an electrical outlet. The mobile device charger generates power from motion, whether it's in a pocket, a briefcase, or the glove compartment of...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, Mobile Device Charger, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, mobile, power, green, future, cell phones, computers, electricity

Videos 2008-11-19

Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable

You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...

Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Waste not. ElectraTherm turns "waste" heat into an electricity source

A couple of months back, I reported about an IBM data center project in Switzerland that was shunting its excess heat "waste" toward warming up a public swimming pool. Along those lines, a company from Carson City, Nev., has come up with a commercial waste heat generator called the ElectraTherm...

Tags: Electricity, KWh, ElectraTherm Green Machine, Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Images: Supersize solar power

Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25. Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried...

Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, Trough, Photovoltaics, Plant, mW, Solar Power Plant, Arizona Public Service, BrightSource Energy, Concentrator, Stirling Engine Systems, Infinia, It', SolFocus, What', Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-26

NIMBY, but I still want the electricity

There are some modern tehcnologies that can be wireless, especially digital tech from radio and TV to data and Internet. Not so with electricity. There are those damned wires. Almost as bad as all that plumbing needed to move water around. Here's the Wiki piece on...

Tags: Electricity, Federal Government, Radio, Transmission Line, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Vattenfall AB Revitalizes Electricity Trade and Decreases Expenses by 75%

Vattenfall AB wanted to improve performance and stability of business-critical Web-based electricity trade applications and streamline and improve risk management in the electricity trade and portfolio management. The challenge was to develop commercial applications and create new, modern Web services for larger customers and enhance the quality of support and...

Tags: Electricity, Oracle Corp., Vattenfall AB, Application Servers, Middleware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2007-12-01

CIA World Factbook - Complete Edition. Detailed Countries Info and Maps. FREE 1st half book in trial (Mobile)

The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials. This complete electronic edition is designed for optimal navigation on your handheld device. FREE fist half of the book in the trial.Features: Complete unabridged edition. Maps, history, climate, population, religion, government, US diplomatic...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, CIA, Mobile, Natural Gas, AIDS, HIV Virus, World Factbook, Electricity, Oil, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2007-10-25

Electrons driving us drivers and may juice up our future

That's an eBox in the picture. Made by AC Propulsion, one of the four electric vehicle makers on the GoingGreen Panel, Davis, CA. Moderator, Jesse Deeter, Producer "Who Killed the Electric Car?". Tom Gage, CEO, AC Propulsion. They are...

Tags: Electricity, Car, Vehicle, Battery, eBox, TG, GS, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11

WattchIT X 1.51.1 (Mac)

WattchIT permits home owners the ability to compare what they consume in electricity against their hydro/electricity bills. Can your monthly electricity bill be wrong !!! Let WattchIT provide you with the answer. WattchIT is easy to use and lets you view any appliances cost per day/week or month. Each room...

Tags: Electricity, Apple Macintosh, Watt, WattchIT X 1.51.1, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-05-01

WattchIT 1.51.1 (Mac)

WattchIT permits home owners the ability to compare what they consume in electricity against their hydro/electricity bills.Can your monthly electricity bill be wrong !!! Let WattchIT provide you with the answer.WattchIT is easy to use and lets you view any appliances cost per day/week or month. Each room or location...

Tags: Electricity, Apple Macintosh, Watt, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-04-05

WattchIT 2.01 (Windows)

WattchIT permits home owners the ability to compare what they consume in electricity against their hydro/electricity bills.Can your monthly electricity bill be wrong? Let WattchIT provide you with the answer.WattchIT is easy to use and lets you view any appliances cost per day/week or month. Each room or location in...

Tags: Electricity, Watt, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-08-06

Additional Resources

Microsoft fixes IE patch again

A Patch To Fix A PatchMicrosoft is up to its old tricks again.Yes, Microsoft IS up to its old tricks...... fixing things that don't work, repairing broken code, and generally looking after its customers. Too bad they can't do the same for you. (Fixing things that don't work)@Confused...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft fixes IE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Fixes

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

VAIO? BZ Notebook Spill Test

Distilled Water You could possibly do this with many laptops with distilled water, and it wouldn't affect it for a while! But its good to see laptops designed for this sort of thing!RE: VAIO? BZ Notebook Spill TestThat is hardly a test...Who drinks water? In a glass?Spill something that conducts...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, BZ Notebook, Sony Vaio

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

The perfect computer?

I have to admit...that I did not read past the title. Suffice it to say that there is no such thing as the perfect woman, perfect car, perfect meal, perfect computer or perfect anything. Individuals' needs and tasted are just too varied. Too trueTo mirror the above post, there is...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Brownouts, computer, perfect computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

The perfect computer?

Do we have the technology to build a perfect computer? Would it be perfect for a specific purpose or is it possible to build a perfect general purpose computer? Small Business Computing's Mark Beckley has some answers. Do we have the technology to build a perfect...

Tags: Motherboard, Computer, Machine, Chip, Small Business Computing, Watt Power Supply, Productivity, PCs, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-02

Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?

Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Water, water everywhere. So why not use it to create steam?

Here is a lesson on how little we can put in the blog...and still call it our own. Could you write less and still get paid ???sheshEver heard of Nuclear powered ships? They heat water that flashes into steam and thus turns the turbines.This short article.I think the...

Tags: Fuel cells, hydrogen, steam

Discussion threads 2009-11-02