According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Americans stand to save $450 million in electricity costs a year if they switched to LEDs. Of course, not everyone has warmed to the lighting tech. In this Wall Street Journal piece, the author discovers that some traditionalists can’t get past the cold, artificial lighting cast by some [...]
Read more Stat of the day: $450M in energy savings from LED holiday lights switch
We expect the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to operate efficiently. And indeed, the agency is making good on its mandate to achieve net-zero operations. According to this Energy.gov post, NREL saved $88,000 in its 2010 fiscal year by, in large part, taking a virtualization-heavy approach to IT. By consolidating servers and shifting to a [...]
Read more NREL’s green data center saves $88K, improves security
I was mildly intrigued by GE’s hybrid compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb that employs a halogen lamp for instant-on illumination. (The halogen bulb switches off when the CFL reaches full brightness.) It’s a clever way of eliminating one of CFL’s lingering weaknesses, but it seemed like a misguided effort in the face of LED’s meteoric rise [...]
Read more GE preps LED tech inspired by jets
President Jimmy Carter had them installed. Reagan’s administration removed them. George Bush Sr. dabbled with a small installation. Now, they’re really making a comeback. At the 2010 GreenGov Symposium, The White House announced that solar panels will be reinstalled on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue along with a solar hot water heater system as part of a [...]
Yahoo’s chicken coop inspired data center in Lockport, NY near Buffalo is finally open for business. A departure from the “big box” look of most corporate data centers, Yahoo’s design allows for free-cooling, or the use of ambient temperatures to keep IT equipment cool for most of the year and save a bundle on energy [...]
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