by David Heyerman on November 11, 2009
- With 300 million users, you can imagine that Facebook is becoming quite the data center energy hog.
- Good news is that they’re making changes to ensure Facebook is getting more efficient.
- They just leased more data space from Fortune Data Centers in San Jose.
- Fortune utilizes water-side economizers, environmental monitoring, and hot/cold air containment, which are all staples of an efficient data center.
- They’ve signed 4 new leases this year alone, all of which have been to centers on track for LEED gold status.
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by David Heyerman on November 5, 2009
- Sharp just announced a new record in solar cell conversion efficiency.
- The new material is a high-efficiency crystalline compound called indium-gallium-arsenide which assisted in bumping the record from previous 31.5% to 35.8% efficiency.
- Well done Sharp, wonder who will push it over 40%, any ideas?
by David Heyerman on November 4, 2009
The Windows 7 hype has been a little overbearing for the last couple months, but it sounds like there might be a great deal of good that comes out of the new OS, no matter hard it is for me to say.- Along with promises to drive down the cost of computers and change the memory business for good, Windows 7 also makes some pretty notable efforts to reduce energy.
- Microsoft says that “Windows 7 runs with fewer background activities so your PC processor doesn’t work as hard and draws less power. Other innovations include less power-hungry DVD playback (handy on long flights), automatic screen dimming, powering off unused ports, and a more accurate battery-life indicator. So you’ll be less likely to be surprised by a dead battery.”
- If you think about the fact that PC’s and their respective third party hardware additions make up 60% of all the energy consumed by the IT industry, you can understand how big of an effect Windows 7 will have on energy reduction and even further, greenhouse gas reduction.
- Now if they could only get their marketing in order they might be somewhere.
by David Heyerman on October 23, 2009
Top 10 solar technologies to watch out for.- Door opens for Aptera, 3 wheelers to grab DOE green car funds.
- How Fort Irwin just signed the largest solar farm in the department of defense’s history.
- After Bitter Feud, hybrid car startup, Greentech plans $6.5 billion plant.
- Tata Nano increases production to keep up with strong demand. Like I said, a carbon emissions nightmare.
by David Heyerman on October 22, 2009
- This is big. Not just blogosphere big…..this is complete cultural shift big.
- Yale Physicists have for the first time in history made a definitive measurement of a “persistent current.”
- This persistent current, they describe as a “small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.”
- That’s right folks, a completely sustainable form of energy has been discovered.
- For years, these kind of studies have been covered up and slandered as fringe science and the work of conspiracy theorists, but now, with a school like Yale putting their name behind it, there’s no telling what’s to come next. Exciting.
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