It’s that time. Before we welcome a brand new year, here are 2010′s most popular posts according to you! 1. Stats of the Day: BP Oil Spill Google Results Back in June, I ran a little experiment. In terms of Google search results, how did BP’s recent oil spill compare against the previous top environmental [...]
Oh, the irony! Intel’s supercomputer, called the Encanto and ranking number 32 on the Green500 list, was called into service to forecast the spread of oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Consisting of 3,500 quad-core Xeon processors, the 28-cabinet, water-cooled system helped the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) predict the spread of undersea oil [...]
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What if BP’s oil spill sullied the pipes of the Intertubes? It could could look something like this. A Cleaner Future’s Instant Oil Spill allows visitors to BP-ify their favorite sites. As you can see in the screenshot above,…
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As of today, these are the number of Google search results (general Web, not News, Images, Blogs, etc.) for the BP oil spill versus the Exxon Valdez oil spill. As you can see below, BP is catching up to…
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