The iconic Sears Tower in Chicago is set to receive a $350 million green renovation. Wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels are anticipated to reduce the tower’s electricity use by 80 percent and save 24 million gallons of water a year, according to building owners and architects. There are also plans to add a [...]
IBM has created the new Aquasar supercomputer which uses water to siphon off waste heat, and then uses the excess energy to warm up a building. Developed jointly by IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Aquasar’s microchips avoid cooling with energy-intensive air conditioning by using water to transfer heat away from the chips. A network of water-carrying [...]
QD Vision, Inc, based in Watertown, MA, delivers a new generation of display and lighting solutions that require less energy. QD Vision’s Quantum Light™ platform promises to offer unparalleled color and brightness and require less power than current-generation LED technologies. How do they do this? QD uses quantum dot (QD) films to generate tunable white [...]
Industry leaders got together lat week at ConnectivityWeek, a collection of events that focus on the application of Information Technology and energy challenges as they relate to the need for better sustainability. The group includes representatives from utilities, manufacturers, and communications technologies working together on issues related to smart grids, smart devices, and smart [...]
With many telecom companies committed to carbon reduction, their anticipated growth in coming years will mean an increasing reliance on “green” network equipment.
Companies are shifting to more efficient base and switching centers and handsets that consume less electricity. Cell phone companies including Sony-Ericsson, Sharp, and Sprint are introducing energy saving handsets and other eco-options.
For mobile [...]
With an average life expectancy of 600 years “virtually every piece of modern fishing line that has ever been lost is still out there” – that’s millions of yards of line causing unfathomable destruction of marine mammals and bird life. A new product called Bioline, biofilament™ addresses this problem. The line, available in [...]
The term “smart grid” is one that is increasingly gaining attention in today’s media. Consortiuminfo.org recently posted a great article by Andrew Updegrove on smart grid technology, which can be deployed as a means to turn the existing energy system into an interactive, two-way energy network that recruits users to create electricity from alternative energy [...]
Having worked with a client leading the way in high-brightness, high-performance LEDs, we know a little about the challenges of these breakthrough solid-state light sources. Namely, heat! For all the environmental benefits that accompany innovations in LED lighting, one challenge remains – keeping the applications cool and performance hot.
Today, start-up Progressive Cooling Solutions [...]
Slow wind has always presented a problem for wind turbine companies trying to get regular people like us to invest in their turbine technologies. Now, Michigan-based WindTronics has introduced a wind turbine designed for individual homes that it says it can operate at speeds as low at 2 miles per hour. The “wind turbine in [...]