Category: Trends & Concepts
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Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Oracle’s Guerry Waters
I decided to run a series of interviews with people deeply involved in the Smart Grid space. I’m calling it the Smart Grid Heavy Hitters series. I will publish a new interview every Thursday until I run out of interviewees (or out of energy – poor pun intended, sorry!). In this, the first of my…
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The rise of the energy manager role
One of the topics which I responded to on the recent IBM Eco Jam was “IT’s Central Role In Managing Energy & Carbon”. This topic was raised by another analyst (again IBM has asked me not to mention participants by name but if the analyst in question sees this and wants me to name him/her,…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/05/2010
Photo credit arekiiu Here is this week’s Friday Green numbers round-up: Scant Arctic ice could mean summer double whammy | Reuters Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a “double whammy” of powerful ice-melt next summer tags: greennumbers, arctic sea ice, arctic ice, ice melt Tibet temperatures hit record high in 2009…
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Interesting energy storage solutions?
Photo credit Tom Raftery I published this post on the IBM Global Eco Jam last week and it generated some interesting feedback so I thought I’d re-publish it here too to solicit your thoughts – I was at the NewNet CleanTech Investors Summit in London last November. At this event a poll was taken asking…
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Forget mobile phone chargers – they are not the problem!
I participated in the recent IBM Global Eco Jam and there were some fantastic discussions there. One of the discussions surprised me though – people were still talking about unplugging mobile phone chargers as if that was a significant problem. It is not. On the contrary, it is a dangerous distraction. Watch the video above.…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 01/29/2010
U.S. pledges 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 – washingtonpost.com The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home. […]
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IBM Global Eco-Efficiency Jam Day 2
Today is the final day of IBM’s Global Eco-efficiency Jam (it finishes at 6pm CET today) and it has been awesome. There have been hundreds of discussions on all manner of Eco-related topics – everything from LEED certification, to Green software engineering, to Energy Efficiency certificates to Smart cities and collaboration. People have been asking…