When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? (Friday 31st of October 2008 11:15:02 AM)
Snydeq writes "Powering down servers to protect energy is a debatable especially as a
profession.
pursue
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drill that,
if undertaken wisely, could greatly benefit IT in its quest to rein in ...
(more)Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? (Thursday 02nd of October 2008 04:30:01 AM)
Khemisty writes "Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly
void of matter. Scientists say this spot could account for the apparent acceleration of the
universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading ...
(more)Feds Unwrap $15M For Corporate Energy Reduction (Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:02 AM)
As hard as it is to imagine, coondoggie writes with news that the federal monastery just
unveiled a new energy bill that will offer $15 million in assistance to retailers who help to
build and adopt energy-efficient technologies. "The US canton of Energy ...
(more)Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 01:45:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers at the guidance mash unit of Texas at Austin have achieved a
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(more)IT Vs. the Permanent Energy Crisis (Wednesday 10th of September 2008 08:00:01 AM)
Snydeq writes "Organizations looking to remain profitable in the face of escalating energy
costs may lean even harder on IT to achieve energy efficiencies in the years to come, InfoWorld
reports. But instead of limiting IT's efficiency role to the datacenter, ...
(more)Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai (Tuesday 26th of August 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Engadget is reporting that a new pyramid-shaped city of the future, dubbed a "Ziggurat," is
being touted by Dubai-based environmental management policy impact anatomy design company,
Timelinks. Claiming that their design allows for an almost self-sufficient ...
(more)id, Raven Developers Discuss New Wolfenstein (Monday 18th of August 2008 02:30:01 AM)
CVG is running an audition with Kevin Cloud, officer producer at id, and Eric Biessman, who
leads Raven Software's programmers and artists, about the approaching repayment to the
Wolfenstein series. They provide some detail about what kind of weapons ...
(more)World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California (Monday 18th of August 2008 02:30:01 AM)
Pickens writes "Two photovoltaic solar power plants will be built in San Luis Obispo County in
California, duds* 12.5 square miles, that consecutively will lead to about 800 megawatts of
power, the latest vestige that solar energy is control gate to achieve ...
(more)Lack of Energy in Old Age May Foretell Illness (Thursday 14th of August 2008 05:02:52 PM)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) -- When elderly career complain
they have a lack
of energy, doctors shouldn't dismiss it as a normal part
of aging, say researchers who found
that lack of energy (anergia) is
associated with several health ...
(more)Energy Automation Systems, Winning Team Launches The Renewable Energy Centre (Friday 01st of August 2008 11:35:00 AM)
Energy Automation Systems, Winning Team Launches The Renewable Energy CentreKenilworth,
Warwickshire, UK (PRWeb) February 26, 2007 -- A website
launched this week is the first of its
kind in the UK and is set to
lead the way as a primary source of information ...
(more)Using Sun's Energy to Split Water Means Solar Power All Night (Friday 01st of August 2008 09:00:01 AM)
Phorm writes "Reuters is carrying an article about a recent MIT evolution which may pave the
way for solar-energy to be collected for use in low-input periods. by the book to Reuters, the
finding of the a new catalyst for separating hydrogen+oxygen from ...
(more)Google.org announces investment in BrightSource Energy (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:06:06 AM)
Google.org announces investment in BrightSource EnergySolar thermal energy generation is one of
the key emerging industries addressing the changing global climate and we are excited about
both of our current investments in solar thermal technology -- ...
(more)T.Boone Pickens' Energy Plan (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:01:21 AM)
T.Boone Pickens' Energy PlanPickens is promoting wind power as a partial solution to our
dependence on foreign oil imports.Boone Pickens was a guest. Pickens used to be an oil man from
Texas; now he’sa natural gas, windmill, and an oil man from ...
(more)Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
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divine Lad, among many others, points out
another in a long series of claimed "powered by water" cars, this one by a russian bath ...
(more)Latest 'Green' Power Generation — Your Feet. (Sunday 08th of June 2008 09:40:33 PM)
Gbjbaanb writes "Remember those ideas that suggested hooking gym machines to the power grid?
Well, the Times is reporting that commodity like this to harness free energy is about to become
a reality — the footfall of trudging shoppers is to become ...
(more)Galaxies Twice As Bright As Previously Thought (Monday 19th of May 2008 01:45:03 AM)
Astronomers led by Simon Driver of Scotland's health center of St. Andrews have discovered that
interstellar dust shades us from as much as 50% of the light emitted by stars and galaxies. The
scientists compared the number of galaxies we could see "edge-on" ...
(more)World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
Deglr6328 writes "The OMEGA EP laser at the health center of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser
Energetics was dedicated today at the Robert L. Sproull Center for Ultra High Intensity Laser
Research. The new laser, which has been in design since ~2002 will, ...
(more)Hobbyist Renewable Energy? (Saturday 03rd of May 2008 07:15:05 AM)
Vossman77 writes "I was looking into renewable energy from a hobbyist perspective, maybe
generating a few watts of solar or wind power, just to reduce my electric bill. But upon
further review, I found out that I need a special grid tie AC inverter that ...
(more)Self-Healing Artificial Muscles (Friday 21st of March 2008 01:15:06 AM)
Valor1016 writes "Researchers in California have developed an artificial muscle that heals
itself and generates electricity. 'We've made an artificial muscle that, when you apply
electricity to it, it expands, more than 200 percent, the motion and energy ...
(more)New Electron Microscope Shows Atoms in Color (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Cornell's Duffield Hall has hiv-positive immune deficiency syndrome a new electron microscope
that is enabling scientists to see individual atoms in color for the very first time. While old
electron microscopes can be compared to black and white cameras, ...
(more)Knee Brace Generates Electricity From Walking (Sunday 10th of February 2008 11:00:09 PM)
Ktulus cry brings news of a device that can power cartable gadgets, prosthetic joints, and
other mobile appliances by harvesting energy head by walking. Researchers are working on making
the device — still a moderately cumbersome 3.5 pounds — ...
(more)Energy efficiency for commercial buildings (Sunday 27th of January 2008 08:16:00 AM)
Energy efficiency for commercial buildings
Commercial and institutional buildings energy
use and expenses differ significantly from residential. The typical residential electric bill
is based on monthly usage and not the intensity of usage at any ...
(more)The Survival of Humankind, and Improving the World, Society, and Yourself! (Wednesday 16th of January 2008 09:03:00 AM)
The Survival of Humankind, and Improving the World, Society, and Yourself!
Yet who can the
world trust to be idealistic and moral enough to help all of humanity and the environment, and
at the same time, be practical enough to make extremely difficult ...
(more)Switchgrass Makes Better Ethanol Than Corn (Saturday 12th of January 2008 11:45:04 AM)
Statemachine writes to mention that the USDA and farmers took part in a 5-year study of
switchgrass, a grass native to North America. The study found that switchgrass ethanol can
deliver around 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, as opposed ...
(more)California Utilities to Control Thermostats? (Saturday 12th of January 2008 11:45:04 AM)
TeraBill writes "It seems that the California Energy Commission is looking to give utilities in
the state the power to control the thermostats in private homes via a radio signal. The idea is
that during times of significant energy crunch, the utilities ...
(more)ERV Energy Recovery Ventilation Systems Reduce Long Term Costs and Improve Indoor Air Quality (Sunday 30th of December 2007 04:39:00 AM)
ERV Energy Recovery Ventilation Systems Reduce Long Term Costs and Improve Indoor Air Quality
Is the indoor air your breathe is as fresh and healthy as it can be?
As building science
professionals have known for some time, an effective ventilation ...
(more)Researchers Explore Quantum Dot Based NVRAM (Friday 28th of December 2007 10:00:02 PM)
I Don't Believe in Imaginary realty brings us an article describing the possibility of a new
type of non-volatile storage based on quantum dot technology. So far, researchers in Germany
have achieved 10ns access times and 0.7Hz refresh rates. Their calculations ...
(more)Cosmic Rays From Galactic Black Holes (Monday 12th of November 2007 12:30:01 AM)
Dork writes in with word of a study that contradicts, at least for the highest-energy events,
the recent conclusion that cosmic rays are plausibly formed in supernova remnants. The Pierre
Auger Observatory in Argentina has announced that active galactic ...
(more)Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again (Tuesday 06th of November 2007 04:45:05 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Researchers at the health center Of Alabama In Huntsville have
divulged that some x-rays thought to come from intergalactic clouds of 'warm' gas are instead
perchance caused by lightweight electrons — leaving the ...
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