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For your reading pleasure: One expert's view of how green power can affect the U.S. power infrastructure

Confused about exactly what your company can or should do about its future electricity consumption? A new book, "The Green Guide to Power: Thinking Outside the Grid," endeavors to provide an overview of the environmental impact of the existing power grid and some ideas about what we can do at...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-07

First volley in the new American civil war: over climate change

A first draft of a climate change and energy efficiency bill has been introduced into Congress. The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee released the first draft of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. emocratic leaders hope will it be voted...

Tags: Civil War, Geothermal Energy, Energy Efficiency, Bill, Rep., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computing

Iceland is in a bit of trouble these days, its economy collapsed last year when its three largest banks failed. And so now it is being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and trying to get its economy on an even keel. One of Iceland's most...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Data Center, Aluminum, Iceland, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Will 2009 be a solar year?

Will 2009 be a solar year?Insanity at its best...The environmentalist movement is running the Government, we seen what $5 diesel did to the economy TANKED it.However we have Obama driving a 380HP Dodge Charger and Al Gore riding around in gas guzzling limos, living in multi-million dollar houses that use...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Obama, environmentalist movement

Discussion threads 2009-01-17

Economic problems forestalling alternative energy growth?

The folks at EER are tracking the effects of the economic dyspepsia on alternative energy projects around the globe. Their conclusion: some slowdown in 2009, but numerous projects are moving forward outside the U.S. Here the industry awaits details on a federal stimulus plan if it's enacted. ...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Geothermal Energy, EER, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first place

Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first placeYou should add that there are about 5 times more Chinese, so, they arestill using 5x less per capita. I do agree that the rapid increases in use in China is troubling . . . . .

Tags: China Move, clean technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

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

Google.org invests in geothermal

Google.org invests in geothermal$1 billion is even lesswhen compared to welfare payouts. Chew on that the next time you want to make a political statement.And while you're masticating, figure this one out: If you have to beg for a government handout, your business isn't viableNuclear power, coal and oil PAY...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, What-If, geothermal energy, tax break, Google.org

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Google.org invests in geothermal

Google.org is investing $10 million in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, a technology that drills miles down into the earth to get that nice, hot granite under the surface, Tom Zeller reports on the dot-earth blog at the Times. As Zeller notes, $10 million ain't a lot in this...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Google.org, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

The Green Enterprise: Frog's Leap Winery

Green strategies are at the heart of operations at Frog's Leap Winery. Innovations include a solar installation on the vineyard grounds, a LEED-certified hospitality center and geothermal technologies that are powering the company's heating and cooling system. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Jonah Beer, the winery's general manager, and...

Tags: Winery, Geothermal Energy, Solar, The Green Enterprise

Videos 2008-07-15

Unreal Tournament 2003 - Boiler Plant map (Windows)

A long forgotten geothermal plant has found new life to test the brave and kill the weak in this deathmatch map for UT2003.

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Brave, XLUCIFER, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-10-30

Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force Geothermal Station map (Windows)

In this Capture the Flag map, each team has a bridge which holds their flag. The other team must try to capture it.

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Team, Star Trek, Team Management, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-10-24

Additional Resources

Coal: more on the fall-out

Coal: more on the fall-outCoal is not perfect......but right now it is what we have. I used to live down there in SW Colorado, and have seen first hand the effects of living near large coal fired power plants. I used to fish in those lakes, until the...

Tags: breeder

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Google trumps fossil fuel industry?

Google is searching for more than websites. They're searching for the holy grail of energy as well. Financially competitive alternative energy. Now their energy chief claims they are close. Here's the original interview with Google's energy guy. He told Reuters the federal government...

Tags: Fossil Fuel, Google Inc., Harry Fuller, Telecom & Utilities

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Green boom busted?

Green boom busted?Silly thing about investorsThey want a guarantee of a return. And unfortunately this alternative energy thing is a tough nut to crack. The only forms of energy that seem to work reliably and cheaply other than burning things are wind, which is still not so reliable because the...

Tags: Taxes, Personal finance, Right Now IT, alternative energy, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Hedge your bets: Green tech warranties, insurance ensure you'll be able to buy green in the future

Pretty much no one expects you to go rip and replace all of the technology in your home or business with green stuff if there's still life in the old stuff. That just wouldn't be very green, would it? But a couple of forward-thinking companies in the...

Tags: Green Technology, Plan, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Incinerate 1.1 (Windows)

It is 2074. Astronomers from around the world are watching an asteroid crash into the surface of Mars leaving a huge crater. Clouds of dust and vapor hide the surface of the planet for several long months. Communication with all Martian research stations is lost. When the clouds clear away,...

Tags: Surface, Planet, Microsoft Windows, Spaceship, Stars Ashes Game Development, Geothermal Unit

Software downloads 2009-04-12

Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planet

The Status Quo Crowd SQC are gonna write this off as left-wing, Euro-socialist propaganda. The SQC better hope the ideas in this report don't make their way into the halls of power because it proposes wholesale changes in the status quo and a peaceful revolution in how big business...

Tags: U.S., Job, Greenpeace, Report, Status Quo Crowd, Transportation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-11

Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...

Tags: Innovation, Biofuel, Oil, Video, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Will cheap oil affect green innovation?

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...

Tags: Biofuel, Government, Green Enterprise, Bill Joy, Churchill Club, alternative fuel, gas, oil, innovation

Videos 2009-02-12