Yahoo will unveil a new data center in Lockport, New York tomorrow that boasts a power-use effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.08, which means that 92 percent of the power consumed by the data center goes toward computing functions. Only 8 percent goes to lights and operational equipment. Less than 1 percent of the power gets [...]
Helsinki — Later this week, the first servers in an experimental data center here that proponents say will be the world’s most energy efficient will go into their racks — and bigger plans are on the way. When formally launched in August, the data center will generate the equivalent of a megawatt of energy for [...]
FRANKFURT, Germany — It’s a very long shot, but someday there may be cars and buses whose main chemical byproduct is sunscreen. APET, or Advanced Power and Energy Sources Transportation, is touting the idea of using a zinc-air fuel cell to power vehicles. Oxygen and water would be mixed with zinc in a fuel cell [...]
Snippet from Earth911.com: 5. DIY lava lamp Now you don’t have to take a trip to that creepy Spencer’s store in the mall to go back to your teenage years. OK, we’ll admit that this design from Simple Earth Media doesn’t have the zing that your old $40 lamp had, but it’s no doubt a [...]
A snippet: Myth #4: One person can’t make a difference. Does it really matter if you don’t recycle or if you throw your food waste away instead of composting it? Yes. Much of what is in our landfills could have been reborn as a new product had it been reused. According to the EPA, 63.9 percent [...]
California residents inhale some of the most polluted air in the United States, the American Lung Association said in its annual report. According to the 2010 State of the Air report, which measured air quality nationwide, 74 percent of California’s counties got a failing grade in ozone pollution. Almost half of the state’s counties also [...]
Good news for Southern California mass transit users: BAE Systems is planning to develop a zero-emission bus for Southern California regional transit agency, SunLine Transit, under a project to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of fuel cell technology. The company will be serving as systems integrator to deliver the vehicle to SunLine transit in an effort [...]
Urgent action is needed to tackle the “mountains” of e-waste building up in developing nations, says a UN report. Huge amounts of old computers and discarded electronic goods are piling up in countries such as China, India and some Africa nations, it said. India could see a 500% rise in the number of old computers [...]