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- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- Recently I blogged about what's happened in Colorado since the voters passed a renewable energy mandate back in 2004. Today comes word that a major utility company is shuttering two coal-burning plants in Colorado and turning to more use of solar for electricity generation. State regulators...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
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- Utility-grade electricity storage batteries make wind energy possible on a breeze-less day
- Sitting here staring out at my green front lawn, which only yesterday was covered with a blanket of the pre-Christmas snowfall we received last weekend. The temperature is well into the 50s Fahrenheit, which seems bizarre given the sub-teens readings that made my car tire-pressure system go haywire last Monday....
- Blog posts 2008-12-28
- Batteries to store wind energy
- Scientific American reports that Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based utility company, has started to test a new technology to store wind energy in batteries. The company is currently trying it in a 1,100 megawatts facility of wind turbines in Southern Minnesota. The company started this effort because 'the wind doesn't always...
- Blog posts 2008-12-27
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM lays claim to 'greenest' data center title, at least here in North America
- OK, by the time this next week is out, you will be as weary as I am of all the "greenest" "more energy-efficient" data centers ever built news that I will report. The good news is that no matter WHICH claim to be the greenest is true, there is some...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Solar cell breaks efficiency record
- Solar cell breaks efficiency recordBreak even at $1 per watt would be 3 yearsToday, I pay 11 cents per kilowatt-hour from Xcel Energy. At $1 per watt, a solar panel rated at 1000 watts would cost $1000. It would take 9000 hours of use to break even. ...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Intel Kensfield quad-core CPUs - another broadside against AMD
- Intel Kensfield quad-core CPUs - another broadside against AMDScalability indeedConsidering that desktop applications are almost exclusively dominated by a single process at any given time, I have rather severe reservations over the benefit of even dual CPUs.Please note that this is from someone who has spent a good bit of...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-21
- Meet Apple's version of Deadheads
- Meet Apple's version of DeadheadsMeet Apple's version of DeadheadsI always travel 1,550 miles from home to camp out in the rain just to spend money on overpriced products. Friggin dorks.Apple Employees Dress like SlobsDid you see the pictures of the new NYC store? Many of the employees are...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-19
- Xcel Energy Collaborates With IBM to Build Groundbreaking New Solutions
- Xcel Energy needed to deliver added shareholder value by leveraging technology to optimize core processes, develop new ones and increase customer responsiveness. Xcel Energy is teaming with IBM on new solutions that improve business processes with partners, help executives plan proactively and raise responsiveness to customers. Utility Innovation projects showed...
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