conservation
Prisons go green, using alternative energy and recycling to save energy and money
Sunday, November 9th, 2008The Associated Press has an interesting article describing the ways that prisons are using alternative energy and recycling to save money and energy. For example, at the Cedar Creek Corrections Center in Washington State, convicted murderer Robert Knowles has helped grow 8,000 pounds of organic vegetables this year. In Indiana, water boilers that run on [...]
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Are you being Greenwashed?
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Greenwashing refers to the recent practice of providing misleading marketing claims about the environmental benefits of something. Many times, it seems, claims about the ecobenefits of a product are vague, or even out and out false. How do you know? Time has an article on the identification [...]
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Companies cutting back on speed to save fuel
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Investors Business Daily has an interesting article in which they describe the ways that delivery companies are saving fuel. From ships cutting their speeds from 28 knots to 22 knots to UPS changing its drivers’ routes to avoid left turns (and therefore idling the engine while waiting to turn left), companies are looking at [...]
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Cyclone Power Technologies clean, green waste heat engine
Sunday, June 15th, 2008EngineeringTV has a couple of video interviews and demos with Harry Schoel, whose company Cyclone Power has developed a self-starting engine called a WHE (waste heat engine) that operates in a low pressure, low temperature range. What this means is that the Cyclone Power WHE can run on low temperature waste heat - think [...]
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Slowing down the internet saves energy?
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008According to NewScientistTech, it does. Actually, what scientists at the University of California and Intel Research Labs are finding is that by delaying data flow into a network for just a few milliseconds, data centers can achieve energy savings of up to 50%.
This small delay is enough to smooth out bursts and lulls in the [...]
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IBM unveils prototype green optical network tech
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Not only does this IBM green optical netword sound unbelievably fast with huge amounts of bandwidth, but it also uses far less power than today’s networks. How’s that for a win-win? IBM researchers have just unveiled a prototype network that uses light instead of wires to send information that can transmit up [...]
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Forbes: The LED Illumination Revolution
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Forbes magazine lays out all the reasons why LED lighting may be here sooner than you think. While the current push is on for Compact Flourescent Lights (CFLs), the current state of LED lights provide much greater efficiency and durability, and don’t contain any mercury. While LEDs are now way too expensive for consumer use, [...]
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