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24 Technical Considerations for a Defragmentation Solution
Read this white paper for 24 technical considerations for evaluating a defragmentation solution on enterprise workstations. You'll learn all about the steps you'll need to take in order to make...
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Why Apple is held accountable for supply chain mistreatment
It's all about branding and perceived value.
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The 2011 'bucket of coal' award goes to ...
So, who's ended up with coal in their stocking this year?
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A bird's eye view of fossil-fuel workhorses (photos)
An aerial view of New Mexico's San Juan basin shows the impact of coal power and natural gas drilling in a major production area.
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Report: 6 nanotechnologies could offset negative impact of coal
Emerging technologies consulting firm Lux Research has published a new research report ("Nanotech's Answer Key to the Energy Problem") suggesting that 6 different nanotechnologies could project...
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Hey Greenpeace, the cloud (and tech giants behind it) will be greener
Greenpeace is telling us that cloud computing will lead to a big jump in greenhouse emissions. Your Apple iPad and late nights on Facebook (and Google and Yahoo) will destroy the planet. Time for...
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Bah! Someone put coal in my cloud
So, I've written several times here about research suggesting that larger data centers and the phenomena of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing are somehow greener for the IT industry...
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Chemistry of clean coal
Reaction Design works on cleaning up coal burning power plants.
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The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy
I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted,...
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Photos: From coal mine to wind farm
CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the Glenrock Wind Farm, the first such project to be built on the site of a former coal mine, on Road Trip 2009.
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Coal: more on the fall-out
There are vastly different ways to look at coal in the U.S. Coal's plentiful, it's American, it's relatively cheap to obtain and burn. And it will produce electricity for the rest of your...
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How that mercury gets into your salmon
A study of mercury pollution finally shows how mercery from natural and human-controlled sources gets through the rain cycle and into the ocean and its inhabitants. The research shows mercury...
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'60 Minutes': Powered by coal
Coal is America's most abundant and cheapest fossil fuel but, as Scott Pelley reports, burning it happens to be the biggest contributor to global warming.
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Mattoon may be back on the map
Actually the town in eastern Illinois was never really off the map. But it did take a big hit at the end of 2007, that's when the President from Texas killed the federal support for FutureGen,...
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Peak oil, peak coal and a peek at the future
Some scientists are now calling for a serious attempt to measure the known coal and oil reserves. There is evidence that we've already passed peak oil, nearly one half of all oil...
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Always On and evergreen
Always On has just announced their picks for the top fifty, privately-held, green tech companies based in the eastern U.S. Their overall winner: GreatPoint Energy. Always on concluded about the...
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Carbon Capture and Petroleum Industry—a tale of two pities
It's a pity that not everybody can be happy when the federal government does something. Or even just talks about doing something. Back when oil men sat in the top two executive positions in the...
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Confronting Congressional hypocrisy
We all know that members of Congress live sheltered lives. Secure dining areas. Federally-paid staff with plenty of job benefits. Great health insurance and access to perks and junkets on...
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The coal war heats up
Coal is a major source of energy in the U.S. just as the U.S. is a majro producer of coal. We do not need to import coal the way we import two-thirds of the petroleum we consume. While we do...
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Is 2009 the year of carbon sequestration?
Emerging Energy Resrearch's new report says the carbon sequestration tech will get serous attention this year and may be at significant scale by 2016. The petrochemical industry is very...
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"Clean coal," dream or possibility?
There is a lot of coal in North America. So, can we we burn it up without: 1) destroying the land after we're done mining, 2) creating marvelous future disasters like the recent Tennessee coal...
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