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Episode 1 of the GreenMonk Podcasts – 08 mins 28 secs
We have been thinking of starting a podcast here on GreenMonk for some time so when I read that Nortel is going to be the official Network Infrastructure Provider for the London 2012 Olympics I decided that would be a great story to [...]
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James has written previously about how Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to “make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europeâ€.
As James said at the time:
Likesay, this is pretty much a canonical Greenmonk story. We are all watchdogs, we are all observers. Science [...]
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According to Wikipedia most modern supercomputers are now highly-tuned computer clusters using commodity processors combined with custom interconnects.
The IBM Roadrunner supercomputer, for example, is a cluster of 3240 computers, each with 40 processing cores while NASA’s Columbia is a cluster of 20 machines, each with 512 processors.
If servers and data centers are [...]
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In case you missed it there was an extremely comprehensive post on the Oil Drum site the other day about teleworking.
The post struck a particular chord with me as I have been working out of home now since 2004!
The post goes through the pros and cons of teleworking and lists 28 advantages of [...]
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The observant amongst you may have noticed that we have talked quite a bit about smart grids here on GreenMonk. That is because we believe fundamentally in what it is they are trying to achieve and how they are going about it.
And we are not alone in that!
SAP’s AMI Lighthouse Council is [...]
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I came across two fascinating surveys of supply chain execs attitudes to climate change today!
The first from environmentalleader.com says that:
The survey of over 500 North American supply chain executives shows that the vast majority of respondents, 90 percent, think that over the next three years green issues will remain or become more important [...]
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Image from the Andy Grove article in American.com
I wrote a post about Plug-In hybrid vehicles and their potential value to the grid the other day.
Since then I have seen several other articles published from eminent sources which seem to back the thesis that electric vehicles are the way to go.
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, [...]
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Having just taken delivery today of my Toyota Prius and having just read the Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI) fabulous report on Vehicle to Grid possibilities, I decided it was time to address a post to this topic.
First off, what is vehicle to grid? Vehicle to Grid (or V2G) is the idea that plug-in [...]
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James sent me an email the other day about a new term he had come across – Precycling.
It wasn’t one I had come across before either. According to Wordspy, Precycling is
Purchasing products based on how recyclable they are
With the earliest citation coming from 1989.
The Wikipedia entry on Precycling is more comprehensive:
Precycling is [...]
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