Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Photo of data center in limestone cave, via Computerworld Data centers suck up a lot of energy , so it pays to put servers in places that can keep them cool and running efficiently. While some companies are choosing to make what they have work better , others are thi... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is ...
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Photo via NASA Never before has the Earth been captured in such high resolution. Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center recently uploaded an amazing series of composite pictures of our planet , named "Blue Marble," onto the photo sharing Web site Flickr . One look at such a clear view of Earth, Originally posted here: NASA Releases the Best ...
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Astronauts can now use Twitter to send pictures like this, of the Maldives, with their new Internet connection in space. Photos via Soichi Noguchi In what is perhaps the final frontier for Internet access , Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi shared photos he had taken of Earth from the International Space Station via his Twitter page . In addition to ...
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Screenshot via IBM video IBM has been working hard on improving technologies that help with water quality and management . The company feels that managing water is equally - if not more- important as managing electricity , and technology can be a big part of the solution. IBM has just released a new, fun video that highlights problems surr... ...
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Screenshot via PNNL YouTube video A new report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory entitled The Smart Grid: An Estimation of the Energy and CO2 Benefits has determined that the smart grid could cut carbon emissions by 12%, and could cut energy consumption by an equivalent amount. Looking at the direct mechanisms - including smart grid-enabled ...
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So the iPad has finally been revealed, and we don't mean the house ! Is it a technological revolution or was it a bit of a predictable anticlimax? Apart from the unfortunate feminine hygiene jokes that are spreading rapidly through the Twitterverse, what we're most concerned about here at TreeHugger is what are the environmental pros of this gadget, ...
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Images via AMEE The Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine, or AMEE, is an organization with an audacious goal: to track the energy footprint of everything on earth. It entails an enormous amount of work, from figuring out how to track it to actually aggregating the data. But the project is doing well, and AMEE has just launched a new tool ...
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Photo via globalnerdy Carbon reporting is on the rise, and along with it is the rise of software to help with accounting. Grooms Energy Research predicts that over the next two years, we can expect to see a seven-fold increase in market size , and a five-fold increase in the number of companies in the market over the next ...
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Image via Acer Acer has launched two new notebooks, Acer Aspire 3811TZ and Aspire 3811TZG . They're part of the Timeline series, which touts a 40% energy efficiency improvement over traditional laptops, and these two notebooks are free of two toxic materials that many companies either have, or are working to eliminate from their laptop lineups as well. ... ...
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Photos via Computerworld In western Pennsylvania, a data center is using the benefits of a very cool location. It's Iron Mountain's man-made caverns in an old limestone mine, and in room 48, an experiment in data center effi... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: 300 Million-Year-Old Limestone Houses Ultra Efficient Data Center 22 Stories Underground
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
