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- The Dell of green-tech alternatives?
- Standard Renewable Energy CEO John Berger is on a mission to make residential green-tech retrofits as simple as buying a custom computer from Dell. Essentially, the Galveston, Texas, company is a systems integrator for alternative energy. Its mantra is Review, Reduce and Renew, and its team provides...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, HVAC, Dell Computer Corp., Bottom Line, John Berger, Standard Renewable, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
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- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Microsoft steps up its business push for Windows 7, related products
- Why do I want Windows 7?This is a serious question. I've been using XP Pro for a while now, and am pretty happy with it. It works well, and doesn't seem to give me many problems.I don't understand what Windows 7 brings to the table. I don't...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc power
- Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc powerI love it when senatorsact as innocent bystanders to the problems they create.Total Socialist Control.......Socialist Government is going to take over Healthcare, GM, Chrysler, Energy, Taxing you for everything.Yet destroy the entire economic infrastructure knowing it will cause massive unemployment and continue to print fake money by...
- Tags: Socialist Government, coal, ash, socialist, coal ash
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?
- The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...
- Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-24
- AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation
- The intersection and fusion of business insight and technological innovation is the key to creating successful new business models, said AMD Chief Information Officer Ahmed Mahmoud today in the keynote of Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. In a "fireside chat"...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IT Professional, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Technology, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- EU to extend copyright to 95 years
- EU to extend copyright to 95 yearsCurious decisionI too cannot see the rationale behind this decision. One suspects Sir Cliff will have another hit soon: 'most downloaded torrent of 2009'.On another issue: be interested to hear your comments on Psystar's v Apple and the judge's reference to 'abuse of copyright...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, income
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?
- Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?Well . . ."That way, they won't have to print web pages to paper anymore."Well, truth be known most assignments are typed on a word processor. If an English assignment is printed from a web page, it usually means you've cheated.Thanks for...
- Tags: Flash memory, USB flash drive, Adobe PDF, cheap flash drive
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Oerlikon Solar sees a shining future despite dark clouds over Wall Street
- Wafer processing equipment and personnel. Courtesy: Oerlikon I blogged about Oerlikon last summer. Now the publicly-traded, Swiss-based company has come out with a new version of its turn-key thin solar panel manufacturing gear. Oerlikon Solar has developed new equipment that promises 50% more...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Tax, Manufacturing, Oerlikon Solar, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-handCleanTech and Economic IncentivesGiven what we now know about how modern electronic manufacturing and scavenging works (see the new 60 Minutes report tracking "E-Waste" from Denver got China), and how our current environmental regulations are set up on manufacturing processes,...
- Tags: Regulations, Obama, environmental regulation, manufacturing, regulation
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- Verizon, AT&T provided cell towers for McCain ranch
- Verizon, AT&T provided cell towers for McCain ranchWho Watches the Watchmen?Another example that goes against the idea of advocating no government by some....Not to worry......there will be no need for the temporary towers after November 4th anyway...when he LOSES the election. LOL LOL:-)Not a problem!You want free cell site service...
- Tags: Verzion, Devilcrats, Verizon Communications Inc., cell tower, U.S. Secret Service
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting case
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...
- Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Murph, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., IT IS, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Mandatory email
- Mandatory emailWe need better emailFrankly, email is currently broken - spam and scams and phishing make it a mess to wade through, even with the best spam blocking stuff.Problem is, we decided to use "adaptive filtering" statistical junk rather than solid encryption and digital signatures. What do the spammers do?...
- Tags: e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea
- Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular ideaAnd, yet againWe see the asinine argument that the path to energy independence isn't to produce energy, but to restrict use.But this is no surprise. Like all environmental issues, it really isn't about what it says it's about. Energy independence isn't about...
- Tags: energy independence, Energy Independence Day, popular idea
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Toddler finds way to really green solar: turning green plants into photovoltaics
- The sandwich of materials that is today's solar panel. Courtesy: Biosolar. Biosolar's a toddler chronologically, just turned two years old in April. But they're already publicly traded and they could stand tall in the expanding field of photovolataics, making electricity from the sun....
- Tags: Panel, Dr., Photovoltaics, Biosolar, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- 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
- Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars
- According to EE Times, a California-based company called QuantumSphere has developed nanoparticles that could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline. The company says its reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings can boost the efficiency of electrolysis the technique that generates hydrogen from water to 85% today, exceeding the Department of Energy's goal for...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Electrode, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Nanotechnology, Hydrogen, QuantumSphere, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Green Tech boon. But is the new U.S. energy law cornographic?
- A new U.S. energy bill has been signed into law by the President. Here are some of the green tech relevant provisions: Higher fuel-efficiency for cars and light trucks, up to 30 MPG average by 2020. That is currently the standard already in China. Europe already...
- Tags: Green Technology, U.S. General Services Administration, Law, Corn, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?
- Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?DRM the real problemDRM and endless copyright are the real problem. The books at Project Gutenberg will never go out of print. They have already bee dublicated on hundreds of web sites and thousands, if not millions of devices.Only...
- Tags: Digital media, environmentalism, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- American cars and light trucks may have to get more efficient
- It's ony been thirty years since mileage standards were raised on passenger vehicles in the U.S. but that's what Congress is now proposing to do. According to reports on a compromise energy bill, it appears the democtratic-led Congress will vote on a proposal for an average of 35 miles...
- Tags: U.S., Renewable Energy, U.S. Congress, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
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