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Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?RE: Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?Energy conservation is great and benefits everyone. Carbon credits are phony. Much warming data is built on computer models that don't show any warming unless a "correction factor" is added.If Al Gore is so serious about climate...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, TVs, Energy Conservation, Carbon Credits, tax, Humanity!, climate change, Obamasiah, Climate Change

Discussion threads 2009-03-28

Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round

Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding roundWe need energy conservation - not revenue generationThe biggest problem I see with this so-called smart-metering is that it is designed to generate revenue. It has nothing at all to do with power generation or energy conservation. It simply measures...

Tags: Operational accounting, revenue, Trilliant, grid player, energy conservation

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Dell IT Cuts Energy Costs by Up to 40 Percent With a New Power Management Plan

Energy conservation is an increasingly important issue for organizations in a wide range of fields. There is a need to conserve energy and cut expenses at Dell by reducing the power used by approximately 50,000 of its computers during non-business hours. As a solution Dell installed 1E NightWatchman and SMSWakeUp...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Information Technology, Energy Conservation, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Case studies 2007-09-01

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Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Scientific Conservation adds energy-measurement module to commercial building commissioning application

New software module from Scientific Conservation helps you get more granual about predicting commercial building energy usage. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Software, Module, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Midwest tech firm now wind driven

Other World Computing OWC is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of "first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S." It's using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. ...

Tags: Turbine, Other World Computing, Other World Computing HQ, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

EnCalcOU 1.4 (Windows)

EnCalcOU calculates the cost of oil, allowing both the real cost based on tank readings and forward prediction based on the readings and elapsed time. The results can be saved to a log file for later analysis.EnCalcOU copes with up to two tanks, varying tax rates and fixed charge. It...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, JSutils, EnCalcOU, Tools & Techniques, Taxes, Management, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-10-14

News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Developers plan integrated platform for managing energy, resource conservation goals

It must be awfully annoying for businesses to have to deal with point applications for environmental/energy management. Plainly speaking, these things should be just part of overall management tools associated with compliance, sustainability and overall operational excellence initiatives. Someone must have clued in ESS, which provides Environmental,...

Tags: Software, Sustainability, Compliance, Greenhouse Gas, Crisis Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-21

California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban

California has long been at the leading edge of energy conservation, for better and, sometimes, for worse. Case in point: The California Energy Commission has proposed set power-usage limits on television sets that manufacturers would have to meet in order to sell those TVs in the state. If adopted, the...

Tags: California, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-09-17

News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Identity Theft, Phishing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Scientific Conservation technology fights "energy drift"

Scientific Conservation sits at the intersection of green IT and green technology for more energy-efficient building management. Founded in 2007, the company offers a software platform called SCIwatch for what it has dubbed Automated Continuous Commissioning. In laymen's terms, this means the application will keep tabs on...

Tags: Software, HVAC, Monitoring, Conservation Technology Ltd., Construction, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-10

EnCalcL 3.3 (Windows)

EnCalcL calculates the cost of purchasing and running water using appliances, allowing 2 alternative items to be compared under the same running conditions. The results can be saved to a log file for later analysis. EnCalcL is part of the JSutils group of software utilities which have a theme of...

Tags: JSutils, EnCalcL, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Is lower power consumption Windows 7's killer feature?

what killer feature?I don't know about OSX but Linux is more energy efficient than windoze.FYIsold by M$ under the namne of 'Windows' something.What is this "Windoze" you speak of?Never heard about it before....Anyway, can Linux run my programs? (Office, Photoshop, the latest games, Windows Live Essentials?) No? Oh.... Thats some...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, killer feature

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Live Webcast: Scale Up and Save: Best Practices for High-Density Virtualization & Consolidation

Fast-paced and resource-constrained environments of today require IT decision makers to take fresh approaches in order to keep up with dynamic organizations. Join NEC and Intel in this live TechRepublic Webcast to understand market drivers for high density virtualization hosting. Discuss how leading edge...

Tags: Webcast, Consolidation, Best Practice, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-09-01

Innovate...then wait...and wait

I spoke with the CEO of an American company making state-of-engineering heat pumps. But his company can't get past the federal gatekeepers at the Department of Energy DOE. The Acadia system built and sold by Hallowell International just doesn't fit the old model for HVAC. I blogged...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Lobbyist, Rebate, Department Of Energy, Acadia, Hallowell International, Quality, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Medical insurance is not a greentech issue, or...

Muir's Law: When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it attached to everything else in the universe. John Muir was right. I have tried to stay away from the nasty squabbles over the gigantic American medical industry. There's an over-supply of hot rhetoric and...

Tags: Industry, Health Care, Insurance, Conservation, Muir, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-22

Lean and green? Which corp leads EPA's green practics list?

Kimberly-Clark. Here's a look at the EPA's top nine list. The rankings are done based on renewable energy use and conservation. Doesn't measure whether they get leather from Brazilian cattle or recycled paper shipped in from China. I'm glad to see one of my favorite beer...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-29

EnCalcE 4.2 (Windows)

EnCalcE calculates the cost of purchasing and running electrical appliances, allowing 2 alternative items to be compared under the same running conditions. The results can be saved to a log file for later analysis. It also calculates CO2 generation. EnCalcE is part of the JSutils group of software utilities which...

Tags: JSutils, EnCalcE, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-29