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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 […]

Lean Means Sustainability – Step 3 – Analyze

In ear­lier posts I wrote about “Define” and “Mea­sure” as part of Six Sigma’s DMAIC cycle. Step 3 is “Ana­lyze”, the “A” in DMAIC. The intend of this step is to under­stand what causes the prob­lem defined in step 1 – “Define”. Let’s assume we char­ac­ter­ized our prob­lem that we spend too much energy in […]

The Sun In Your Basement

Sun Cat­alytix’ water split­ting tech­nol­ogy to gen­er­ate Hydro­gen as a medium to stor­age energy sounds like a nice way to drive a fuel cell. Maybe a fuel cell like the much hyped Bloom Box. Based on research done at MIT they say they have a new way to split water into its com­po­nents (Oxy­gen and […]