Bill Thompson
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United Kingdom, Cambridge
Web http://www.andfinally.com/
Skype bill.thompson
Topics of interest appliances | green computing | renewable
I'm a UK-based technology writer and journalist.
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Green Data Centres
(or Centers for those who prefer North American spellings) There's an interesting interview on O'Reilly and Associates' news pages [ http://news.oreilly.com/2008/0... ] with ...
Greening Olympic IT?
Back in 2005 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) signed an agreement aimed at reducing the impact on the environment ...
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 the journal Nano Matters ( subscription ...
Beyond Green Computing
Like every other product of the advanced manufacturing capabilities of a long-industrialised society the computers that surround us – and, for the pacemaker wearers among us, that we have taken into ...
The Offline Cost of our Online Lives
This is my latest column for the BBC News website, where I write about technology issues each week. I thought it might be of interest to fellow wattwatters. The next ...
US Department of Energy funds photovoltaic research
The US Department of Energy is providing $14m towards research in photovoltaic technologies for a new generation of solar cells. The goal is to reduce the costs of these systems ...
Microsoft's green strategy emerges
Unlike other major players like IBM, Intel and of course Google , Microsoft has been rather quiet about the enviroinmental impact of its products. That seems to be changing, and last ...
Gravity powered LED lamp
This is rather nice - one of the winners of the US-based Greener Gadgets competition is a lamp that gets its power from the slow fall of a weight that causes ...
Interesting piece on Web 2.0 and 'green tech'
I always feel guilty posting a pulse that is basically just an invitation to go and read something written elsewhere without doing any critical analysis, but sometimes time is short ...
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 the tech world this year ...
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