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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
- Utility fires back at Kansas where Lt. Gov. touts alternative energy
- There's now been a lawsuit filed in the case of the rejected coal-burning power plants. Sunflower Electric Power is suing the State of Kansas which denied the utility's request to build two more coal-powered generating plants. This is just the latest salvo in a battle that may spread...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Kansas, Carbon Dioxide, Plant, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- 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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- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Teaching telecommuting
- I had to commute this morning. I left the commuting behind about 5 years ago and dread the drive from middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts to Boston. We have a lot more horses than traffic jams out my way, so I've definitely lost my tolerance for traffic. The local troopers...
- Tags: Boston, Tool, Telecommuting, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?WORTHLESSyou article is worthless. you spew a LIE and others believe you, so you make your livelyhood on a LIE, get a real job, earn honest money,Get a clueThr Russian capitalists want more gov't control, not possible. Remember the oil...
- Tags: global warming, government
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminumThat is patentable?This is getting ridiculous. Companies have been fabricating all types of items and enclosures out of "bricks" for years.How is this really unique in any way? Becuase it is a laptop enclosure?Does not sound cheapThis news does not...
- Tags: Notebooks, Digital music, Digital media, Machining, Apple Inc., aluminum, laptop computer, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Bill Gates Leaving Might Help Mend Silicon Valley Fences
- Bill Gates Leaving Might Help Mend Silicon Valley FencesRidiculous assertion that it was caused by Bill Gates!What a ridiculous assertion that Microsoft's 'anti trust' activities were caused by Bill Gates.Ask anyone in Silicon Valley if they agree with this ignorant statement and I don't think you would hear anything but...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Truevert stands on Yahoo!'s shoulders; learning to search for Green issues
- Joining the growing band of search solutions built on top of Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Search Service BOSS initiative, Truevert seeks to apply semantics in providing a particular slant on searches across Yahoo!'s index. Topically, Truevert "is focused on green, environmental...
- Tags: Taxonomy, Yahoo! Inc., Ontology, Search Result, Truevert, Search, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Send Email From Command Line (exe)
- With Send Email From Command Line you can send mail directly from windows command line DOS prompt. You can attach files to e-mail, use CC Carbon Copy and / or BCC Blind Carbon Copy. Call Send Email From Command Line from scheduled tasks, CGI scripts, VBA, virtually from any software,...
- Tags: Software, Software Download, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-06
- Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"
- News flash. In a recent report called "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?," market research house Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as TRULY green technology. Yes, folks, it's part of that green tech backlash that we've all been...
- Tags: Asset, Green Technology, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Energy Consumption, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?
- Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?Oh - no need to worryDon't worry about the funds drying up. With Uncle Sam footing the bill, the good times for wind will just keep rolling.Besides, it's a pretty sweet deal for energy companies. All they have to do is put...
- Tags: investment
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Can coal be clean?
- Can coal be clean?The difficult truthIt is the unforuntae and difficult truth what the guy says. Until the hydrogen era, somewhere around 2025, we have to live with a mixture of energy sources.The winners shall be the ones leaving carbon based fuels behind, and focusing on locally produced energy means.
- Tags: coal
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure v3.5
- Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends October 31, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsIn this hands-on training course, you will explore installation, configuration, and management of VMware Infrastructure 3, which consists of VMware ESX Server and...
- Tags: St. Louis, Raleigh, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Phoenix Technologies, Detroit, San Diego, VMware Inc., Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Desktop Virtualization, Ip storage
- Training 2008-10-01
- HP takes leadership stand on emissions reporting across supply chain
- Talk about full (well, almost-full) disclosure: As it promised in its 2007 Global Corporate Citizenship Report, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is reporting carbon emissions data not just for its own operations for those of its largest suppliers. The data represents about 80 percent of the company's "first-tier manufacturing expenditures." (Whatever...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Suddenly the MacBook Air doesn't seem so expensive anymore. . .
- As rumored, Sony announced its new ultraportable this week. The old VAIO TZ series was a slick ultraportable, and the new VAIO TT series looks even better, though I'll wait for some full reviews for confirmation. In the meantime, the list of available options-- carbon fiber chassis that weighs 2.9...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Burner, Apple MacBook, Blu-ray, Fiber, Network Technology, Desktops, Networking, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 Tablet racks up awards
- Reviews of the tablet version of Lenovo's X200 ultraportable are in. The big change in this version, which replaces the longstanding ThinkPad X61t, is the switch to a widescreen display. The X200 Tablet is also thinner and lighter, weighing about 3.5 pounds with the standard four-cell battery and a little...
- Tags: Lenovo ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., X200 Tablet, PC Magazine, Tablets, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Should engineers fix climate change?
- Should engineers fix climate change?Democracy and the Long ViewThey are, of course, famously incompatible.That said, there is an argument in favor of self-interested First World countries moving as rapidly as possible towards a lower carbon footprint. On the one hand, they're the ones with the most to lose from...
- Tags: global warming, ice, climate change, Joe
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displaysWhat's the life-expectancy of an LED display?Is it expected to be better or worse than an LCD display? After all, the two are unlikely to be exactly the same, and if it's worse then surely the energy cost of manufacturing extra...
- Tags: Engineering, tree-hugger, light-emitting diode, LED DISPLAY, DELL Makes, global warming, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
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