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Drill Baby Drill!

Will we learn before it is too late? Watch the mess off the Louisiana coast. On April 20th 2010 an oil rig exploded and took 11 work­ers down to the sea floor. Ini­tially it was said that there is no oil spill, then they said about 160,000 l (1,000 bar­rels) of oil spill into the sea […]

Wind To The Rescue

Nan­tucket / Mass­a­chu­setts gets the first US off shore wind-energy farm, and many don’t like it. Ger­many switches on the “Alpha Ven­tus” wind park located in the North Sea, they cel­e­brate it.  And off the coast of Louisiana an oil spill threat­ens nature and the liveli­hood of  fish­er­men and oys­ter farm­ers. What is going on […]

Earth Day

40 years ago the first “Earth Day” was con­ducted. There was an oil spill that fouled Cal­i­forn­ian beaches. The Cuya­hoga River in Cleve­land caught fire, Time mag­a­zine wrote that “a per­son does not drown in the river, but decay”, and smog was a daily occur­rence in many big cities in the US. Con­fronted with these environmental […]

Setting Goals Not Methods

In a press release today Google is said to lead the charge against tougher energy effi­ciency stan­dards for data cen­ters. Google? Is this not the com­pany tout­ing green ini­tia­tives and try­ing to not be evil? It is worth to dig a lit­tle deeper into this issue. Data cen­ters house tons of heat pro­duc­ing com­puter equip­ment, and […]

MP3 Beats CD">MP3 Beats CD

2009  Microsoft and Intel com­mis­sioned a study look­ing at envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits of dig­i­tal media com­pared to old school CD (or vinyl albums, do you still remem­ber?). Researcher at Stan­ford came to the con­clu­sion that there are energy– and CO2 sav­ings between 40% and 80% when music is dis­trib­uted dig­i­tally as com­pared to send­ing CDs. Another study […]