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Forget the crabs, Maryland gets solar

For the second straight day the University of Maryland leads in the Solar Decathlon competition in Washington D.C. But several teams are withing striking distance. The winner will be announced Friday. The U.S. Department of Energy is one of the sponsors, along with BP, Sprint...

Tags: Maryland, Team, U.S. Department Of Energy, Team Management, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Green, green again, but maybe not green enough

Pond scum is a hot topic in the renewable energy world. Green and other colors algae can be used to produce a combustible oil. That would be renewable and green in the environmental sense. But the question remains: could it produce green profits putting algae farmers in...

Tags: Renewable Energy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-24

Particle Tracking and Simulation on the .Net Framework

Particle tracking and simulation studies are becoming increasingly complex. In addition to the use of more sophisticated graphics, interactive scripting is becoming popular. Compatibility with different control systems requires network and database capabilities. It is not a trivial task to fulfill all the various requirements without sacrificing runtime performance. This...

Tags: Microsoft .NET Framework, U.S. Department Of Energy, Particle, .Net, C#, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Hardware

White papers 2006-06-21

New microscope could focus nanotech dream

New microscope could focus nanotech dreamUS Department of Energy needs this why?A hundred million dollars to do what? Why does the Department of Energy need something like this? Do they not have enough on their plate dealing with the here and now and our countries energy needs? ...

Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, DOE, Department of Energy, nanotechnology

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

Cisco MeetingPlace Integrates Video for True Rich-Media Conferencing: Solution Enables Simple and Effective Voice, Video and Web Conferencing

The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network ESnet, managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been using Cisco MeetingPlace for more than seven years as part of its global collaboration environment supporting research sponsored by the Department of Energy. ESnet users include scientists at research institutions and universities around...

Tags: Web, Solution, U.S. Department Of Energy, Web Conferencing, Voice, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco MeetingPlace, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Case studies 2004-12-01

U.S. Department of Energy: Human Capital Management Strategic Plan - FY 2005 Action Plan

The Department of Energy DOE achieved a "green" status score for its accomplishments in implementing the human capital initiative of the President's Management Agenda PMA. During FY 2005, DOE will build on the results achieved over the past three years. To accomplish this, the Department's Chief Human Capital Officer has...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Energy, Human Capital Management, Department Of Energy, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2004-11-29

Additional Resources

WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liability

The big problem with the allegation that cell phones and other RF energy emitters can cause cancer is that there's no good way to know who's right. On one side we have an industry with lots of money and public support and on the other a few lone voices...

Tags: Phone, Industry, Radio, Health Care, Cell Phone, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-26

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

What paper trail?

I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Images: NASA uncovers secret of the Northern Lights

NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites reveal that explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon causes the aurora borealis. by CNET News.com

Tags: NASA, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-25

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?

Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...

Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

The little wind turbines that could

The little wind turbines that couldAll righty then...Here's the scoop. The average american household uses 14,000 kWh/year, about 1,200 per month in round numbers, meaning a 6kWh generator is about the right size--assuming the wind never dies.I couldn't find prices for Proven Energy, but a Quiet Revolution 6kWh unit costs...

Tags: Engineering, battery, turbine

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

The little wind turbines that could

I have to admit, I'm more used to reading about U.S. tech firms expanding abroad rather than the reverse. But in the case of certain green tech innovations, I suppose it makes sense to flip this idea on its head. Just heard about the example of Proven...

Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...

Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Students: the broadband troubleshooter

Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...

Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-24

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Are solar-energy materials in short supply?

Are solar-energy materials in short supply?Need Ink ContractsImprovements in solar photovoltaic sources of materials brings to my mind the need of inks that will allow painting your own photovoltaics in colorful designs and patterns stressing advertising as much as is possible to enliven the circles of users. Inks of N-type...

Tags: Manufacturing, photovoltaics

Discussion threads 2008-07-23