Solar cell efficiency may improve
A team of researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) under Prof. Laurens Siebbeles have a paper in ...
A team of researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) under Prof. Laurens Siebbeles have a paper in ...
Does using standby make me a carbon criminal?
In these times of increased concern about global warming , the average person is now being forced to question everything they do in their daily lives ...
I'm just one person. What can I do about global warming?
This was Sydney's answer. If you want to know more about the campaign, go to http://www.earthhour.org/
Trickling away the future
The debate about green computing and the energy consumption of our many and various information and communications technologies is clearly going to be important in ...
Google engineers looking at server energy use
Google is so big and powerful that when they take an interest in something it's a. worth watching b. more likely to progress than ...
Energy highlights 2007
This past year of 2007 was again an eventful one in the world of energy. There were new trends, evolving markets, and important breakthroughs. The ...
CHANGING to LED TRAFFIC SIGNAL in JAPAN
Japan National Police Agency decided to change traditional tube type traffic signal to LED type for arterial highway from next year by gradation. There are ...
Cool 'off' switches
The technology team at news.com have an entertaining photo-essay featuring their ten favourite off switches . As they put it: "With the environmentalists throwing a ...
Tim O'Reilly wonders at the profligacy of US electricity consumption
A lovely little post from publisher and general Web guru Tim O'Reilly over at the O'Reilly Radar blog. He is visiting Sicily and ...
Energy Saving Week: “Energy efficiency shouldn’t be a struggle” says Fairinvestment.co.uk
Fairinvestment.co.uk is advising UK householders to get energy efficient this week and do their part to lessen their carbon footprint for the eleventh ...
New US site tells you to "get energy active"
Just added to the US wikiwatts entries ( wattwatt.com/wikiwatts ), check out this site (getenergyactive.org) which is backed by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI ...
Energy-efficient hard drives from Hitachi
I've just done a count, and I reckon there are eleven hard drives in my house at the moment, if you include the two ...
Can electricity save energy?
Electricity is a high quality energy carrier, and its inefficient use needs to be avoided by all means. But more important than the question ‘can ...
Qurrent wins Picnic Green Challenge
The Picnic conference has organized a green challenge with a 500'000 euros price to launch a new ecological project. Several hundreds of submissions were ...
The Internet uses 9.4 % of electricity in the US, 5.3 % worldwide
Equipment powering the internet accounts annually for 9.4% (or 350 billion kWh) of the total electricity consumption in the US, and 5.3% (or ...
Intel launches power-saving advisory site
It's interesting to see that Intel, clearly concerned about the growing significance of power utilisation to its major customers, has decided to launch its ...
Europe grows ever thirstier for electricity
According to the European Commission's Institute for environment and Sustainability, electricity consumption in Europe continues to grow despite the energy efficiency polices and programmes ...
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