conservation
GE’s new hybrid water heater cuts energy use, wins award
Friday, June 25th, 2010 GE GeoSpring hybrid hot water heater
General Electric’s new GeoSpring hybrid water heater has won first place in the Edison Best New Products Awards in the Lifestyle and Social Impact category. GE won the award because its new water heater cuts the energy usage and the cost of water heating in the average home by [...]
Ecofont can save on printer ink
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Here’s something a little different – a Dutch company named Sprang has developed a new open source (meaning free, although a donation would be nice) font that they say uses 20% less printer ink. Their font has a bunch of tiny holes in it – the holes are too small to be seen, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]