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Mar 12 2010

Accenture survey: Vehicle buyers won’t sacrifice comfort, convenience just to buy green car

Published by Heather Clancy under cars & traffic,engineering,fossil fuel,green tech

Here’s something to think about: What prompted you to buy your current car? Was it the fuel efficiency or was it how it looked and rode? The stereo? The safety features? Based on your responses, I’m sure it will not shock you to hear consumers are sick of being asked to give up things like [...]

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Mar 11 2010

EnerNOC takes an integrated approach to energy management

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,engineering,environmental health,fossil fuel,green tech

I’ve written about energy management company EnerNOC in the demand response sense, based on the work that it is doing to help companies with generating capacity reduce their grid dependency in peak demand situations. (As a reminder, here’s my post about how EnerNOC is working with a New York-based data center operator to help it [...]

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Mar 08 2010

Designing bad stuff out of tech isn’t an easy thing to do

Published by Heather Clancy under air pollution,engineering,environmental health,green tech

How much time does it take to design an environmentally questionable material OUT of a product? Recent news out of IBM provides some perspective on just how tricky this can be. Early in March, the technology giant said it has eliminated two compounds known to have adverse long-time impacts from its chip manufacturing program. Those two [...]

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Mar 05 2010

How do you figure out if one vehicle is greener than another? Telematics

Published by Heather Clancy under cars & traffic,energy,engineering,green tech

You may or may not have heard about the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, which is a competition designed to highlight the possibilities of alternative fuels and ultra-efficient vehicles. The prize is $10 million, no small potatoes. The challenge isn’t small either: The competitors are being asked to engineer production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles [...]

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Mar 05 2010

Dialight targets municipal street light retrofits with energy-efficient LED

Published by Heather Clancy under energy,engineering,green tech

Eying municipal retrofits mandated by Federal Energy Policy Act (EPACT 2005) and the Energy Independence and Security Act, Dialight has introduced its latest LED luminaire for street lighting applications. The regulations in question require that conventional mercury lamps and other fixtures between 150 and 500 watts in capacity be replaced by more energy-efficient alternatives. The Dialight [...]

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Mar 03 2010

Equinix gets LEED nod for environmental credentials at Silicon Valley data center retrofit

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,engineering,green tech

What does it take to earn the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) nod for a data center? I’m told it’s not an easy task, but operator Equinix has just gotten the nod for its SV2 International Business Exchange facility in Silicon Valley, California. LEED is actually a building design verification that looks at whether [...]

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Mar 03 2010

Dell updates OptiPlex green credentials

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,engineering,green tech

Quick update on Dell’s OptiPlex desktop product line: The company has introduced a new edition, called OptiPlex 980, that boasts a power supply that is 90 percent energy efficient. The chassis also uses more post-consumer recycled materials than previous generations of the technology, and OptiPlex 980 meets both Energy Star 5.0 and the EPEAT gold [...]

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Mar 02 2010

Feds to undertake massive data center consolidation project

Published by Heather Clancy under conservation,energy,engineering,green tech

Federal CIO gets with the green IT program, calling for a massive data center consolidation designed to improve energy efficiency.

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Feb 25 2010

Tech companies plan green IT economic summit near Washington

Published by Heather Clancy under climate change,conservation,energy,engineering,green tech

Talked to one of the companies involved in this conference a couple of weeks ago. If you’re located in the Washington, D.C., area, and you have shoveled out by late April, there is a Green IT Economic Summit being held in Tysons Corner, Va., on April 22, 2010. I have nothing to do with the [...]