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Did you know that by installing Windows Vista in your computer you are prolonging the life of our Planet? By doing this very small effort you will: • Reduce the carbon dioxide generated by an organization, equal to 45 tons per year for a business with 200 desktop PCs? • Deliver savings on energy bills of up to [...]

Zurich, Switzerland – Aiming to cut emissions from data centers, IBM has unveiled a new high performance computer that uses water for cooling. The Aquasar supercomputer will be located at the ETH Zurich facility, and it will start operations next year, the partners said in an announcement on Tuesday. The supercomputer will combine two rack-mounted IBM BladeCenter [...]

Last year, IBM said that a new modular data center can slash energy use by 50 percent. Below is the actual news about the issue. “A new IBM modular data center that mimics the power and energy efficiency of IBM’s computing hubs can reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent, the company says. IBM says it [...]

Consider this… According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the electricity usage of data centers, those burning rooms where stacks of computers are stored, will double to 120 billion kilowatt-hours by 2011. That would make the data center industry the single largest user of energy in the US.

You have heard of your ancestors using wood to burn, cook or to light camp fires to keep themselves warm during cold days. You would have done it at one point of the other. Maybe you did not know, but you have been using one of the grandest and oldest forms of biomass for your [...]

Climate Time Machine, not your ordinary time machine that  is capable of bringing you to the past and change destiny. Hence, it is a joint project between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the California Institute of Technology, NASA’s Climate Time Machine  is a web application that allows you to visualize recent changes on earth in [...]

Hybrid car has become immensely popular after Honda Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation introduced these cars in the US market in 2000. The US Government offers incentives to those willing to buy hybrid car and many corporations are willing to provide free parking. Why have these hybrid cars become so popular? You need to know some [...]

There’s been a lot of news about algae lately.  Algae, those simple organisms which grow like plants but are much simpler than them, has an oil content. These are lipids which can be increased by as much as 60% when algae are starved of nutrients. Like in everything in the promise of renewables, there are a [...]

If you ask the man in the street what kind of mail he dislikes the most, the answer you will get is probably: “Bills!” And you will too. The most hated bills are gas and electic bills that make us poorer and poorer as they continue to rise. They are a necessity of life, however. [...]

Oil and oil products make the world go round, some would say. Just about every piece of equipment or type of machinery uses oil to run. Oil, however is a “non-replenishable” resource, and when it runs out, how will we run our equipment and machinery? In response to this question, many are trying to develop [...]