Tag: co2
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Three Industries Where Technology Is Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
The science is in. We need to significantly reduce our carbon emissions to limit the amount of warming our planet undergoes as a consequence of climate change. The good news is, technology is rising up to meet this challenge. The bad news is it needs to do far more, and do it faster. How…
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Cloud Computing: Google Apps cloud has a relatively high carbon intensity
I have been researching and publishing on Cloud Computing for quite some time here. Specifically, I’ve been highlighting how it is not possible to know if Cloud computing is truly sustainable because none of the significant Cloud providers are publishing sufficient data about their energy consumption, carbon emissions and water use. It is not enough…
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Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?
Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from primarily coal-fired power? FaceBook is fourth largest web property (by unique visitor count) and well on its way to becoming third. It is valued in excess of $10 billion and its investors include Russian investment company DST, Accel…
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Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution?
Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution? EQ2 certainly thinks so. Steve Burt, the founder and CEO of EQ2, is a former economist having worked at senior levels with Dun & Bradstreet and British Petroleum. His approach, which he calls Granular Resource Economics (GRE), enables companies to quickly see at…
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Nice Dutch project using ‘waste’ heat and CO2 to increase greenhouse yields!
Photo credit przemion Came across a great story on pressreleasefinder today via Twitter about a project in the Netherlands called WarmCO2. What is WarmCO2? It is a project which takes residual heat and CO2 from Dutch fertiliser manufacturer Yara and using infrastructure supplied by partner company Visser & Smit Hanab, pipes them to vegetable…
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Shai Agassi's Better Place project explained
In my post about the DLD conference yesterday I showed the video of Shai Agassi’s presentation because I thought it was an amazingly good idea, well explained. However, when I checked out Shai’s blog I found the following video of kids doing a far better job getting Shai’s idea across (sorry Shai!). It is a…