Sustainability Concepts
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010There are many wind energy projects under way world wide. But the cost of wind energy is still not competitive with the current cost of energy produced by fossil fuels. Environmental costs are still not accounted for.
When We Measure The Wrong Things
Monday, July 19th, 2010GDP is a poor metric for evaluating investments to increase efficiency. Everything else equal, more efficiency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally contrary to any lean management approach.
Germany Plans To Switch To 100% Alternative Energy By 2050
Thursday, July 8th, 2010A new study issued by the German “Umweltbundesamt” comes to the conclusion that Germany should be able to switch energy production to 100% renewable sources within 40 years. Interestingly the head of the agency, Jochen Flasbarth, states that this is doable with technology that is available today. Building the necessary infrastructure would need decisive action […]
Setting Goals Not Methods
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010In 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 […]
The Cost Quagmire
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Wherever you stand on the global warming debate, one thing is indisputable: Carbon dioxide content in the earth’s atmosphere increased over the last 100 years by more than 25%. And again, wherever you stand on the global warming debate, it should be clear that such a change in CO2 does trigger changes. Whether you think […]
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